Joe Klein

Joe Klein: Romney's Bullying Response 'Raises Questions About His Character'

Time | By JOE KLEIN | Posted 05.11.2012

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I fear that I went too easy on Mitt Romney with regard to his high school bullying escapades. It’s not the incident itself that troubles me–though...

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Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan.

Peter Hart | Posted 04.18.2012

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Peter Hart

The pundits who tell us that they crave a dramatic nonviolent Palestinian narrative can write the story of Khader Adnan, who has drawn comparisons to celebrated Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands. But they are not writing his story.

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Clinton: 'Liberal' PBS Smear

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.15.2012

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Marshall Fine

This nearly four-hour documentary by Barak Goodman, a long-time "American Experience" producer and director, is a smear job, though more the death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach than a straight-ahead takedown.

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Michael Calderone

Media Awards Romney New Hampshire Victory Before Votes Counted

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.11.2012

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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Politico's Mike Allen sounded a bit existential Monday night during a media panel at Saint Anselm College. "Why are we here?" he a...

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Michael Calderone

Political Reporters Caught In Iowa Media Crush

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.03.2012

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Following days of saturation caucus coverage, Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz was reminded Monday of a fortune cookie...

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Michael Calderone

Romney Heading To Fox News Sunday

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.07.2011

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NEW YORK -- Mitt Romney, who hasn't appeared on a Sunday morning political talk show since March 2010, will appear on "Fox News Sunday" on Dec. 18. ...

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John McCain Continues Feud With Journalist

Posted 12.06.2011

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) seized an opportunity this week to take a shot Time columnist Joe Klein, who is perhaps his most prominent media nemesis. ...

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Both Sides Now: Can the Final Three Pass Their 2012 Character 'Stress Tests'?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.04.2011

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2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgMatalin and Rosen debate personal flaws of the Final Three. Obama a loner? Romney a phony? Newt a blowhard with "baggage"?

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Michael Calderone

Snubbed Time Mag Writer Blasts Romney Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.02.2011

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NEW YORK -- Although Newt Gingrich may be surging lately, it's Mitt Romney who's stealing magazine covers this week. The former Massachusetts Governor...

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Invoking Hitler's Name: A User's Guide

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 01.11.2012

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Brandt Goldstein

On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.)

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Romney A Straw Man, Ready To Be Toppled?

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 08.16.2011

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And yet there is a jittery sense among Republican savants that Romney is a straw man, ready to be toppled, because the party has changed irrevocably. ...

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Jason Linkins

Media Is Starting to Panic Over Slow Start To The 2012 Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.30.2011

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The 2012 election: wasn't it supposed to have started by now? If you are a normal person, living your normal life, you probably don't really care. 2...

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Joe Klein: I Was Wrong On Social Security

TIME | Joe Klein Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

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But I think we'd learn more if we took a look at one of my goofs: I supported George W. Bush's idea of partially privatizing Social Security, which he...

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'O: A Presidential Novel'

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simon & Schuster will publish the anonymous "O: A Presidential Novel" this month, a political fantasy novel described as "provocative" by its publishe...

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Joe Klein: 'Righteous Burghers' Obsessed With Debt Are Ignoring The Economy

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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Again, I'm not opposed to long-term deficit reduction, so long as it's equitable. But I do wonder why these righteous burghers are leading the charge ...

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Joe Klein: 'A Fever Of Excess Has Overtaken The Country'

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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As for gun control, a fever of excess has overtaken the country during the past 20 years. Even such a conservative stalwart as Judge Robert Bork said,...

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Joe Klein: What George Bush's Book Reveals

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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The presidential memoir is among the more dreadful of literary forms. Most of them are far too long, and suffocating for the heavy woolen tone of fals...

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WATCH: Ed Schultz Responds To Joe Klein's 'Stupid' Comment

Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Schultz responded to Time columnist Joe Klein's calling his comments about the war in Afghanistan "stupid" "and unworthy." Klein had made the comm...

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Tell Joe Klein It's Stupid NOT to Get Out of Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Greenwald

While 68 percent of Americans worry that the war's costs affect our ability to fix problems here at home, we're wasting $2 billion a week on a war that's not making us safer. That sounds pretty stupid to me.

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Joe Klein: Ed Schultz 'Stupid'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Time columnist Joe Klein had some rough words for Ed Schultz, saying that the MSNBC host had been "stupid" when Klein was on his show, and that Schult...

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Axis of Agreement Watch: Joe Klein's "Lucky" Strategy

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Mull

Obama would be wise to ignore Klein and decide not to play chicken with the numbers. Afghanistan will not magically right itself, particularly now as Petraeus can inflame the violence as much as he pleases.

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Joe Klein: Where Obama Goes From Here

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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But Obama's real agenda will be to outwit and outmaneuver the Republicans, as Clinton did after his shellacking in 1994, so that he can live to fight ...

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Joe Klein: Beck Is A 'Tele-Charlatan'

Posted 05.25.2011

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TIME's Joe Klein lashed out at Glenn Beck on Sunday's "Chris Matthews Show." Matthews was in the process of giving a mock award for who had shown the...

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WikiLeaks Exposes More Than Documents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Rather than focus on the substance of the leaked diplomatic cables, American journalists tend to either frame the story as being about the "over-classification" of documents or the personal motivations and private life of Julian Assange.

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It's the Climate, Stupid (Not the Deficit)

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patrick McCully

If you care about your grandkids' welfare, by all means be concerned about the deficit -- but be very, very, very concerned about the need to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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