Time's Joe Klein Mired In Error-Laden FISA Debacle

Joe Klein has just posted yet again about his FISA confusion, and it has now moved well beyond farce into an almost pity-inducing realm. If Time has any dignity at all, someone there will intervene and put a stop to this. It's actually difficult to watch.

In the last five days alone, Klein has now written five separate times about his FISA debacle, and is further away than ever from having any idea what he's even talking about -- first was the column itself; second was the Swampland post the same day in which he emphatically defended the accuracy of what he wrote in response to my post; third was the post yesterday in which Klein said he "may have made a mistake in [his] column this week about the FISA legislation" -- the understatement of the year; fourth was an Update he added to that post this morning claiming that he did speak to a Democrat but "may have misinterpreted a Democratic source's point" and "if [he] did, a correction will appear in the print magazine next week"; and now, his fifth effort in tonight's post, actually worse than all the others, in which he still professes confusion after "spen[ding] the past few days nosing around in the ongoing dispute about what the House FISA Reform bill actually says."

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Comments

[Boris]

09:43 AM on 11/28/2007

What a douche bag! Shouldnt he still be writing album reviews at Rolling Stone? He has no credibility and very little talent. I would like to put him and Carville in a bag and toss them off the Bay Bridge.

[Galvestonians for Dr. Ron Paul]

09:24 AM on 11/28/2007

From Jane Hamsher FDL:
"I’ve spent all morning on the phone trying to figure out who the editor at Time Magazine was on Joe Klein’s FISA column (the one Klein has now written about five times, fully admitting he never read the original bill). I finally confirmed that the editor was Priscilla Painton, and called her and identified myself. I asked her what the editing process was, and how a piece with so many errors made it into print.

“That assumes that there are errors,” she said. And hung up on me.

Her number is 212-522-2022."

I left a message, this Fisa bill is unacceptable and so is the Times "truth-telling".(I, as Glen Greenwald, consider this article to be lies)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
Click to get the whole story.
I have a subscription until Dec and said we will not re-subscribe, nor will we send as Christmas gifts.
The Nation seems to report the truth and that will be our gifts to our families as well, unlike years past that we have given Time.

You can almost hear Ms. Paintons "I swore an oath to the president" tone and would swear it was Monica Goodling.
Please call.

[PKSSK]

11:23 PM on 11/27/2007

Cancelled my subscription today!

[blackjack]

05:52 PM on 11/27/2007

This is the CORP:., MAIN STREAM MEDIA at its best. Time for WE THE PEOPLE to brake up this CORP:., MEDIA rat nest.

[nunzia]

05:39 PM on 11/27/2007

I am so happy to see this guy exposed for the sloppy, often-wrong-never-in-doubt writer (and that word I use loosely here) that he is. Thanks for the post and the update on yet another Joe Klein piece of garbage. If I read Time, which I don't, I'd be really pissed to have spent money for that.

[pizzmoe]

05:01 PM on 11/27/2007

There aint nothin about Joe that is liberal

[Vr6]

04:42 PM on 11/27/2007

An agent for the greedy power seizing scumbags that we call the 'aDministration' - the destruction these kunts employ is simply immoral, unethical and beyond belief - beyond comprehension too, that nobody can do a thing to stop them and their kind. There is a conspiracy and it's against the Common Man, not just of this country but all.

[ErnestineBass]

04:20 PM on 11/27/2007

The sad thing is, Klein may very well know MORE of what the actual Act says than the members of Congress do.

[Ginzaman]

03:39 PM on 11/27/2007

Now in the real world, if anybody did this they'd be fired. But in the Ultra Powerful Ultra Chic East Coast Media Elite Supergroup this is perfectly ok. Must be nice.....

[3fingerbrown]

02:59 PM on 11/27/2007

I hope ol' Joe socked away some of that "Primary Colors" money. He may need it to sustain him in his dotage.