You should all Google "Lou Dobbs" and you'll find a great article, quite objective, that tell you how Lou has gained a lot of power inside CNN. Not only he has the best ratings at CNN but also he has pushed for his "populist ideas" all over CNN. There was a time when even Kyra Phillips had different wigs that were very weird. The same for every other woman anchor. Any non-WASP looking anchor or reporter was demoted or fired: Soledad, Rick Sanchez, Carol Linn, etc. World News at 12:00pm was cancelled because it used to run objective stories. Lou's spot was put on primetime, fired Paula and brought Campbell because of Republican/WH connections, etc., Glenn Beck does not deserve to be on a Local TV Station and he almost proudly says so. Told be truth that CNN has been the only one that has shown a lengthier written paragraph of Pastor Wright"s Sermons showing that was not by far as bad as the sound bites. It is impossible to be well-informed just with CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, etc. One needs other sources such as the Huffingtonpost, BBC News, The Guardian, Le Monde, etc. It is almost a full time job and requires knowledge of Foreign Languages. Hopefully our children will be better prepared to acquire better knowledge and critical thinking skills. Otherwise, they will be thinking like zombies.

And yet, CNN has such high standards that Kirin Chetry (SP?) and the dumb Canadian co-anchor (what is his name? John something?) remain two of the dimmest bulbs on the tellie. These two make Fox look like Edward R. Murrow. They both THINK they are sooooo smart. What do you expect from a network which contines to spew Lou Dobbs and the idiot Glen Beck's vindictive?

Klein makes this comment and the CNN moderator says, after laughing, that "I am not going to go there because some one died! " The death of some unfortunate person due to freak accident is now a joke on CNN. But is this just not in line with all of the other news reporting on main stream media and their caviler attitude towards death in America today?
Why did the main stream news media never warn America about the al Qaeda terrorists prior to 9/11 when they themselves were given plenty of warning ahead of time. The New York Times and their reporter Judith Miller even had been given warnings around the July 4, 2001 time frame by NSA officials that a huge attack was about to take place against the US. The New York Times instead of publishing this information decided that there was just not enough of a story here to put this information on the front page, so they dropped it. No thought at all that by not publishing this story thousands of Americans would perish in this huge al Qaeda attack. And what about the fact that there is now iron clad proof that the CIA hid the names of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi from the FBI even when they were knew these terrorists were inside of the US and were sure these terrorists were going to take part in this huge attack the CIA had been warned about, information that is now in the public domain, and still the main stream news media will not print this. Just like they had laughed at the unfortunate person killed in Florida, they have written off the 3000 people killed on 9/11 as no longer important and no longer news worthy. To main stream news media all of these people were not real people who were living at one time, but nothing more than fodder for macabre jokes on TV.

Whatever the family of the deceased did to hear their tragedy thrown around for the sake of Klein appearing cool with his metaphors is beyond me, but it more importantly brings up the issue that "being cool" appears to have become the essence of journalism over the past 15 years. In Newsweek, in Time, let alone on TV, journalists no longer strive to be the faceless messengers allowing the readers/viewers to decide for themselves. Instead, "serious" news articles finish off with sardonic remarks like "Yeah, right," and far more TV air time is given to punditry than to actual reporting across the networks (with such helpful analyses as Amy Holmes announcing: "Voters like to vote for who they like"). Everywhere from CNN to Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom" box, everyone is striving to sound the hippest or the snarkiest and we can't tell a reporter from an editorialist. Reading or watching the news in America has evolved into observing a group of high schoolers take cheap shots at anyone within their field of vision and assuming everyone cares.

I use to watch CNN a lot, now, with Blitzer's comments after Obama's speech about race issues, and last night John King just had to keep on showing the Rev. Wright's video, even though the part about God 'Dam America was stated by someone else who he was "quoting", it's obvious where their slant lies. So, no more CNN, I go over to MSNBC and any other news program, other then FAUX NEWS. Seems to me a good many of these so called News programs, are nothing more then talking heads shouting out their opinions about who's going to win, etc., Seems CNN wants to keep the race issue going.

You liberals...I mean progressives...really crack me up. You're all so easily offended. Then you get really angry to the point of being malignant. "He should be fired..." But then you guys can be really mean. I've been called very nasty words like NEOC_N and TR_LL. That really hurts guys. Please try and be nicer than the rally stupid and insensitve Joe Klein.

Hmmmm......"Tragedy plus time equals comedy" Not the day after, jackass.

Joe Klein has long been proof that centrists aren't immune to the crazies.

Joe Klein is an idiot and a Clinton lover.

Why does this guy get paid?

More KKKlass oozes from the neo-con sewer.

So many pundits and so few stories!

Dumb remark.
This is why many no longer watch cnn.
Bet he thot he was being clever, too.

Rumor has it Joe Klein's daughter is a fan of group sex, but you don't see people making bad jokes about it when HE's having a bad week (like when it was revealed that he had been talking out of his ass about FISA and pretty much the entire blogosphere came crashing down on his head).

It is "Kristol-clear" that a pack of wolfs from CNN, Times, Newsweek, New York Times is trying to re-assert their unconditional power and sink Obama. A confluence of interests plays a big role: for the DINOs Hillary is easier controlled and her war-voting record proves it, for the republicans Hillary is an easier candidate to defeat against McCain.

If JOE KLEIN got payed minimum wage, it would be too much.

Uh, how much DOES he get paid?

Good grief, when did American's become so freaking sensitive.

Much ado about nothing

His mouth was obviously running way ahead of his brain! Shame on him!

OK, so Joe Klein mis-speaks sometimes. Like this instance. And when he denied on the record that he wrote Primary Colors. Facts really don't matter when it comes to politics. It's what people BELIEVE that's important. And Anonym--uh--Klein's heart is in the right place. Why else would he have written that fawning novel about the Clintons?
-Trevor Wynne www.atimelikethis.us

Is any outlet brave enough to show any sermons from Rev Wright that refer to anything other than the comments we continuosly see. This would show why people why he has been allowed to speak for 20 years without being crucified. Many people parrot the line that he's been doing this for 20 years. Well, 9-11 was 7 years ago. How have Pat Buchannon and Tucker and Klein and Hannity, been able to convince anyone to pay them to add their small minded comments to the debate on any topic.

for those who don' t understand why some find it offensive. that poor woman's death was tragic.

I guess Jason LInkin's job is to watch TV and try really hard to make controversy by reaching as far as he can for it. At least that's what it seems after his last review of Nita Lowey on Meet the Press.

It looked pretty obvious from Klein's expression that he was going to try a jokey-metaphor and didn't know if it would fly. It didn't. Big deal. I'm sure the late night comedians will be referencing this sting ray thing at some point. It's not as if TV or the blogoshere is guided by taste at all.

Get a real job, Jason!

I guess I just don't understand his comment. The odds of a stingray landing in your boat and killing you are a billion to one. The odds of a republican operative being sneaky underhanded and dishonest? One to one. The annalogy is false.

How did this nation fall so far? We've totally lost our hard-edge, the edge that brought my Sprague forebearers in the Lyon's Whelp to Massachusetts in 1629! Our people have gotten so panty-twisted about the stupidest comments and "we" have sold out, let slip away or had stolen so many of the basic freedoms our ancestors died to get for us. The goddam stingray killed a woman, unpredicted, unexpected, violently and quickly...the man's comment was right on. If the family of the poor departed woman can't handle that...too damn bad. How can we allow ourselves to be boxed into Political Correctness? We are descendants of the Americans who kicked British ass and stood over the bodies saying...Not on my watch, mate! Let's revive our resolve to protect the system which has been the miracle of the epoch...American republic democratic principles.