I’m not sure if Time Magazine writer Joe Klein realizes how two-faced he is. He wrote an article about the bullying and intolerant nature he was recently subjected to by other left-wing bloggers. Poor Joe got his feelings hurt.
But the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn’t move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed—especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable. Some of this is understandable: the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful—and politically successful—tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. They are also justifiably furious at a Bush White House that has specialized in big lies and smear tactics.
Klein admits he is a flaming liberal and is perplexed by the treatment of his fellow idealogues with whom he occasionally disagrees. But then he just can’t help himself and in the very next sentence takes the opportunity to insult Rush Limbaugh as odious and disdainful and call President Bush a big liar and bully himself. This is why I don’t read Time or the NYT. I bet Joe Klein is also perplexed about why the print media is about to become extinct.
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