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The conventional wisdom among corporate pundits has long been that Democrats have to move to the right in order to win. You’re likely to hear a lot of this after Tuesday, but there’s already plenty of advice being offered in advance of the Democrats’ likely midterm defeat. Time‘s Joe Klein has his take in the […]
Thispast Sunday’s edition of NBC‘sMeet the Press (10/10/10) featuredtwo gueststalking about the midterms, the economy and public sentiment: conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and Time magazine’s Joe Klein. Klein has been on a road trip through the middle of the country to assess how Americans are feeling (that is, Americans who don’t live […]
One thing to add about coverage of Gaza’s’ rockets is the popularity of the phrase “thousands of rockets.” To cite one of many examples, Joe Klein writes for Time (6/9/10): There is reason to treat Hamas as an enemy of Israel; thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilians attest to that. If you described the […]
Time‘s Joe Klein wrote on his magazine’s Swampland blog (1/25/10) that the American public doesn’t understand that the economy benefited from the Obama administration’s stimulus efforts. So far, so good–it’s true that economists generally feel that the stimulus bill had some impact in curbing unemployment, saving about 1.2 million jobs, according to one survey of […]
Time columnist Joe Klein (12/3/09) was not altogether impressed by Obama’s announcement of a 30,000 troop escalation in Afghanistan (an “iffy proposition,” as Klein put it). But Klein’s main point was that Obama should have justified the war differently: “Once you have made the decision to go, or to redouble your efforts, you must lead […]
In his Time column this week, Klein writes: So what should Obama do about Afghanistan? His dilemma isn’t as stark as has been posed in recent press accounts, with screamers on the right demanding slavish devotion to the military’s wish list and screamers on the left demanding a withdrawal. The U.S. military has become far […]
There’s almost too much to say about this recent column Joe Klein wrote in Time magazine. But let’s start by parsing this: In the good old days of the last century, the years before the collapse of the economy and the World Trade Center towers, political discourse in the U.S. was, too often, rutted in […]
On Monday (1/19/09), Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz took a look at the health of Time and Newsweek, and almost immediately rendered a political judgment: The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more […]
