I wasn't there to hear it, so I am going to withhold judgment for 20 years or so before I comment.

YYaaaaawn

You are chastising him, go read some of the comments from your own on the original story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/20/eagle-ray-kills-woman-in-_n_92599.html

Having watched it LIVE, the story prior to the interview was the stingray incident. Was Klein out of line to go with that analogy, yes, but it was just an off the cuff comment. He didn't mean any disrespect or anger at anyone.

It was just a lame aside.

Honestly sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

These guys know *exactly* what they are doing. They are trying to push the envelope as to what we will tolerate, all the while generating *media buzz*. This means, it's ok to say racist stuff, or hateful things as long as it helps the ratings, even if it creates negative impressions for whatever network. It's kind of like which network can create the biggest car crash and create the most gawkers wins, with the only rule being there are some things that we aren't ready to gawk at, _yet_. Sometimes you get called on it (Imus), sometimes not. I guarantee you, it this guy made a statement such as that about Terry Shivo or Bob Dole (can't use his hand) or Stephen Hawking, when all that was going on, he'd be gone. So it's about knowing who you can beat up. Bully the little people, laugh, and get enough people to laugh with you, you go far in the cable media.

that sorry attempt for a joke fell 5 yards out of bounds

Whadapigheis.

sort of amazing, don't you think? comments like this are okay, i think, a few weeks after the fact. or a few days. or at least a few hours.

i often wonder how i would react if i saw someone like klein at dinner. i'd want to tell him what a putz he is, but what good would it do?

I thought Klein was a jerk already - and his coverage this season has been awful. He's said plenty of dumb stuff over the years, this doesn't surprise me when you put fools like this on live tv.

That we as a country give this hateful little man (and I use that term very loosely) such a huge soapbox to spew his nonsense and evil speaks directly about US.

Turn off your televisions already, you mindless suburban nonentities. How simple can it be?

Comments like Joe's are why I stopped watching cable news.

I naively thought watching cable news made you smarter. Nope. It makes you dumber and more irritable.

"When you turn the TV on, you want to know something. But when you watch it and turn it off, you discover you know even less"....that's from a Jerry Seinfeld around 2002 or so. I'm paraphrasing a bit.

GOD DAMN AMERICA FOR ALLOWING THAT KIND OF TRASH TO GUTTER THE DIALOGUE!!!

how can a man like this be allowed "in" public . . . let alone to be given a forum to speak to masses.

They'll let any clown on to talk, won't they?

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The fact that such an infantile dumbfuck is a columnist in one of the nation's "premier" magazines speaks volumes about the pathetic state of American journalism. He's a quack, he's a hack, he's a jackass.

Joe Klein = Pr*ck

Insensitive, smirky, stupid, and yes you idiot, you took a cheap shot at the expense of a dead woman and her family. You should apologize.