Sunday Watch, 8-17-08: On Air Kisses and Free Passes
If pundits want to note McCain's maverick moments, fine. He's had some. But it never ceases to amaze me (call me naïve) how this flattering label circulates uncorrected.
If pundits want to note McCain's maverick moments, fine. He's had some. But it never ceases to amaze me (call me naïve) how this flattering label circulates uncorrected.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
Joe Klein, who's been recently fighting the same sorts of base attacks, makes a stern denouncement of the entire Swift Boatesque operation behind Jero...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Yes, Senators Obama and McCain will be meeting in three presidential debates that were scheduled before either of them won their respective party's no...
Time | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
A few months ago, I wrote that John McCain was an honorable man and he would run an honorable campaign. I was wrong. I used to think, as David Ignatiu...
Daniel Levy | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
A respected member of the mainstream media is pushing back against one of the uglier and more debate-restricting phenomena of recent years.
Time | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
I have now been called antisemitic and intellectually unstable and a whole bunch of other silly things by the folks over at the Commentary blog. They ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Appearing on Anderson Cooper 360 tonight on CNN, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein said that John McCain's comments Tuesday that Barack Obama is willi...
Time.com | Joe Klein | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
My post below, re the surge, has set off squeals of outrage over at Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog. This is to be expected, but still sad w...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.
Time | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
As Karen points out below, there are all sorts of signs and signals beginning to leak out that the end of the Clinton campaign is in sight, although o...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, Time's Joe Klein noted that he could find no evidence that Sen. Barack Obama had ever specifically said he would negotiate with Iranian pre...
Martin Nolan | Posted 05.13.2008 | Entertainment
Casting Hillary could become the biggest audience-participation show since moviegoers kibitzed Hollywood's choice for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, "The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a -- on a carrier landing."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
The Bush production company devoured some of America's most powerful national and cultural signifiers, not just for crass political gain, but to inspire and enthrall the populi.
Time Magazine | Joe Klein | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
"This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Very few things fail to impress me more than sad arguments over a Presidential candidate's level of "patriotism." I am sufficiently convinced that al...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Joe Klein is a Time Magazine contributor and political pundit who anonymously penned the novel Primary Colors and who, if you are unlucky enough to co...
Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media
She might not win the presidency, but Hillary Clinton has succeeded at one thing: getting us all to think about whether the press prefers Barack Obama...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
In what may be the most bizarre deployment of reportorial "talent" I can recall, Time Magazine allowed Joe Klein and Mark Halperin to opine on Oscar f...
David Sirota | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
Obama knows that if he voiced a more full-throated populism, he would be depicted in the media as a race-centric candidate -- even if his populism was race-blind.
Charlie Rose | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics
Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 01.06.2008 | Home
After the debates were finished we spent time in the nearby spin room tracking down surrogates to get their impressions on the debate. Here are some ...
Andrei Cherny | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
Yes, we are in a "War on Terror" -- just not the one that either George Bush or some his critics are talking about.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Glenn Greenwald's recent take-down of Time's Joe Klein was a can't-miss media story that raged online for weeks, yet Kurtz at the Washington Post missed it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Whatever part of Klein that remained untrammeled by the Dresden-like firestorm of last week has been filleted anew by Radar today.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media