Klein: Primary A-Hole.

I'm not sure exactly how this passes for news, but it does bring to my mind the inherent callousness that news brings to daily life. A tragic freak event involving a stingray killing a woman when it landed on her boat made national news. The fact that millions of people now know about this constitutes that woman's 15 minutes of fame, and Klein's statement reflected that. As tasteless as it was, people do this all the time. The business of news is to report the freakish and unusual and push idioms and slang into and out of public consciousness. Is it any wonder we live in the A.D.D. society?

Klein is an obnoxious disappointment. He needs to retool himself and decide if he would like to join the human race.

One of the main reasons these political talk shows are going down the tubes is that their so-called "experts" who come out and discuss political issues are no more "experts" than the average person on the street. What's the old adage about opinions - everyone has one, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're worth anything. Patrick Buchanan, onetime republican and full-time repulsive, is a common "expert" on MSNBC. His rhetoric has become so outlandish that we turn our TV off when his face appears. He represents the kind of old politics that the country could get from John McCain...a­rrogant, crotchety, dull and repetitive. Joe Klein wrote a book but that success doesn't give him "expert" status either. I see voters using the Internet 100% in four years and political talk shows cancelled for good.

If the pot is Klein and the kettle is Rove , I would pick one intellegent unethical Roves`s talk than the fool , unethical Klien`s stupid presense , spitting from his mouth, as he utters idiotic remarks.

Dump him, CNN. Rove can stay, I do not watch FOX.

By the way, MSNBS..dum­p Mathews, Olberman. Hire Rachael from Huffy !

no class, like the book

I don't get it.... could someone explain this to me?

Who cares?

Klein you sick, sick little man.

Jason:

When you said "But hey, don't take my word for it! " I decided not to. First stop was your bio:

Jason Linkins is a Political Reporter at the Huffington Post, covering media and politics. He's based in Washington, DC. Previously, he wrote for HuffPo's Eat The Press, and has also contributed to DCist and Wonkette.

No offense, but BFD Jason. Technically, I'M writing for Huffington Post, right now!!!!

That's not to say I'm defending Joe Klein. He doesn't need me as defense against YOU!

Can we please have a moratorium on stories where members of the press are "shocked?" Or "outraged?" Or "embarrassed?" Or really, any stories at all about how members of the press feel about the stories they're covering or their own remarks. And for that matter, let's not hear any more about how members of the press are "shocked" or "outraged" in general...­the spectacle of commentators like Pat Buchanan (and others of his ilk who always seem to get rehabilitated from anachronisms to elder statesmen by the media) waxing angry and eloquent of Obama's pastor, for example. Isn't the press supposed to retain it's equanimity and report the news and look for the truth, not just report on each other's emotional reactions to each other's reporting of complex personal and emotional issues that are for the most part NOT news, or truth? How is Joe Klein important enough i the scheme of things or to Americans in general that his outrageousness or lack thereof is even worth noting. And how will amplifying his insignificant comments mitigate any offense that the only people with any standing to be offended, the family of the woman in question, might be feeling...­rather, it only serves to inform them of something they might not otherwise have even known, and thrust them onto the public stage to discuss something -- grief, tragedy, personal loss -- that is private, and certainly doesn't need to be delved into in the context of....Joe Klein? He may be important to his colleagues but I doubt this family could care less at this moment.

People should just start referring to him as "Stingray Joe" so that each time he appears somewhere everyone is reminded of just how insensitive and ill informed Klein is.

And you probably thought that Fox was tasteless.

What is it about this guy that results in two things that are incompatible converging: He exhibits time and time again (get it?) how uninformed and insensitive he is, and yet the media pays him to appear and write in a supposed fact based format.

I don't know anything about a number of different subjects. Would someone please tell me how I can get the media to pay me big bucks to demonstrate my ignorance. They can even pay me less than they pay Klein, or Reilly, or Limbaugh, or....

I quit watching network news years ago and just this week gave up on cable. Except for Rachel Maddox, commenters (they are not really reporters any more) don'seem invested in the truth but in spinning it,and not even spinning it to support their point view, but to play the public, just to keep a trend going , or if they are bored, start a new trend (who is ahead, who is behind).
Better to read newspapers, and the web. Destill and think for ourselves. Feel much better!

Joe Klein, at least as stupid today as he was yesterday. Yessir.