Joe Klein Tries to Evolve
by Matt Stoller, Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 06:07:58 PM EDT
Jane is right. Joe Klein is trying to make a career transition - he's writing a book on the arrogance and insularity of political consultants, and he's posting on the Huffington Post, or 'blogging' as the kids say.
I think it's going to be tough for Klein to move away from paper, where his audience can't talk back, to pixels, where not only can we talk back but we also have Google and other neat toys that make it harder to sneer with abandon. But I think the real reason he's going to have a tough time is because there's less and less of a market for his self-delusional punditocracy, where you can rant about the left, fete Newt Gingrich, practically call for nukes to be used on Iran, and think of yourself as a liberal.
He's just so out of touch he doesn't even know what touching means. Here's his 'clarification' of a remark he made on how the left hates America.
In his recent account of a breakfast book party at the home of Tina Brown and Harry Evans, Eric Alterman misquoted me slightly but significantly. What I actually said was "the hate America tendency of the [Democratic Party's] left wing" had made it harder for Democrats to challenge Republicans on foreign policy.
Joe Klein reminds me a lot of Joe Lieberman. Both are men who cannot face what they have become, and so they turn inward, angry, petulant, and megalomaniacal. The internet is not kind to these people, but then, they have caused a horrific amount of damage.
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