Comments on: The man’s wank is unprecedented in recent memory

By: stogoe

stogoe — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:04:03 +0000

My fondest hope is that when Joke Line finally breathes his last, he dies in a way that is both ridiculous and humiliating. Because really, bringing shame to his descendents and a smile to the face of every orphan are the only things he’s got left.

By: Thursday

Thursday — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:28:14 +0000

“WE are the CHANGE that we SEEK”

Um... Joe? A style note, here: if you're emphasizing the number of times "we" is being used, that's probably what you should capitalize. If you're going to mix emphasized and non-emphasized words, keep it consistent; otherwise you could simply end up looking like an illiterate idiot who doesn't read what he writes. See that example? By simply using a different form of emphasis, the original formatting could be kept and your point would still be clear. Just tryin' to help!

By: jcasey

jcasey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:16 +0000

But can’t you, despite everything he says being the opposite of true, by which I mean false, can’t you see that this is central to his point, etc.

Apologies if someone already made that point.

By: kmblue

kmblue — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:53:10 +0000

I love this blog. When I’m deeply depressed and somewhat suicidal, it never fails to make me laugh. I’m pausing in knotting my noose to let you know that, and to tell you that you all possess wit I can only aspire to.
Ooops, the chair slipped.

By: ice weasel

ice weasel — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:55:15 +0000

What kills me isn’t that Time has a hack working for them. What amazes me is that for the money they are undoubtedly paying jokeline, they couldn’t find one that can hide its ignorance and craveness better than joe. That’s a pretty sad statement if you think about it, which I would prefer not to.

By: litbrit

litbrit — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:21:07 +0000

At Yearly Kos last summer, I attended the Time Magazine/Swampland party with TRex. They had this big board featuring the four “bloggers” mounted (the board, not the bloggers, thank God) at the back of the restaurant, and they entreated guests to grab a pen and “tell it to our faces”. I tore a Joe Klein article out of one of the many spare Times lying around, and fashioned the page it into an origami DoDo bird, which I affixed to the board. (If you’re curious, I posted a photo here; scroll down to the end of the post.)

Anyway, that gives you a soupçon of an inkling of a notion as to what I think of Joke Line.

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:16:18 +0000

You must remember that a qualification for a position like Klein’s is that your memory only reaches back a week. At most. Unless you’re talking about Al Gore in which case you can remember anything as long as it isn’t true..

By: borehole

borehole — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:32:39 +0000

I like the postscript, too:

“Because of an editing error, the original version of this story distorted Joe Klein’s characterization of Howard Dean’s 2004 primary effort. A sentence in the third paragraph has been changed accordingly.”

Welp, I reread the paragraph in question, and then I poked around the archives to see what Klein had to say about Dean during the 2004 primaries, and the corrected version jibes pretty well with what he was saying way back when.

Time: We’re so crappy that Joe Klein can’t trust us to do his column justice.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:01:49 +0000

The question is rhetorical really, but still: how dumb is Joe Klein?

Dumber than a sack full of hammers made of rock. The hammers, not the sack.

By: Douglas Watts

Douglas Watts — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:50:22 +0000

Must.blogwhore.this: 1967 Star Trek Episode Holds the Key to What Hillary Must Do To Win in 2008.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:46:24 +0000

Sadly, No!’s resident English teacher-cum-troll stopping by to note that “I” actually is a pronoun.

Of course, I wouldn’t expect this group of illiterati to know that.

*sigh* You do realize, don’t you, Derek, that it’s Joe Klein who apparently doesn’t recognize pronouns when he sees them? Hence the link and the quote box?

By: Lesly

Lesly — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:56:26 +0000

Unprecedented in memory –> [snip]

In recent memory. What’s underhanded about acknowledging the fact that Obama’s knows how to say what he wants to say?

Klein on FISA is as coherent as my drunk uncle, but there’s really nothing to see here…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:57:19 +0000

The question should be: can we really know if Joe Klein is as dumb as we believe him to be?

By: JoshA

JoshA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:38:17 +0000

People, he has neither the time nor the legal background to figure out who’s right.

So just back off.

Damn interwebs.

By: RandomObserver

RandomObserver — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:45:18 +0000

My blog has some good Klein bashing:

http://margalis.blogspot.com/search?q=klein

The first post is good for the picture if nothing else.

By: stryx

stryx — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:31:50 +0000

Really fukin’ dumb.

And a professional, too!

By: the queen

the queen — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:30:07 +0000

We are not amused.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:29:20 +0000

Sadly, No!’s resident English teacher-cum-troll stopping by to note that “I” actually is a pronoun.

Of course, I wouldn’t expect this group of illiterati to know that.

By: D.N. Nation

D.N. Nation — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:19:26 +0000

Also he has no friggin’ clue that Obama is quoting Mahatma Gandhi.

“Be the change you seek…”

My girlfriend in high school was our valedictorian (I was salutatorian, big ups to me, etc.). And she, at the ripe old age of 17, even knew enough about the quote to use it.

Joe Klein = Fail.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:16:09 +0000

Screw pronouns.

“Is our children learning?”.

Parse that, bitch.