Joe Klein

Joe Klein Knocks Media Criticism Of Obama

TIME | Joe Klein Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 | Posted 11.27.2009 | Media

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As a fully licensed pundit, I have the authority to weigh in here ... but I demur. Oh, I could sling opinions about every one of the events cited abov...

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein, Jamie Kirchick End Up In Fight After Panel Discussion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media


Attendees of yesterday's Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly meeting in Washington, DC were treated to an angry shouting match betw...

Thank You for (Not) Running for President

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media


Michael Sigman

In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.

O'Reilly Goes After Joe Klein: 'Mr Klein Is Scared' Of Me (VIDEO)

Posted 10.27.2009 | Media


Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been vigilant in responding to any critics who accuse the cable news network of betraying their "fair & balanced" slog...

Joe Klein and Charles Krauthammer: Two Cheeks of the Same Backside

Ben Cohen | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


Ben Cohen

It is always good fun when beltway hacks attack each other, although at the higher end of the spectrum, the arguments are a little harder to decipher....

Great Responses

Alan Singer | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


Alan Singer

I've received some amazing responses emailed to me directly to my initial entries on the Huffington Post about education and life in Michael Bloomberg's New York.

Joe Klein: Critics Knocking Obama For Reviewing Afghan Strategy Are Full Of It

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.08.2009 | World


A few weeks ago, a well-known U.S. military expert gave a wise speech about the near impossibility of making a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy work ...

New Republic Editor Evokes Fringe Email "Clinical Narcissism" Smear

Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media


Morgan Warners

A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein: Public Option Support Has Lost To Right-Wing Smears

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Over at Time's Swampland today, Joe Klein takes on the public option in a post titled "What The Public Option Actually Does." The actual work of expl...

Dining Room Table 2010

John R. Bohrer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


John R. Bohrer

Tthe Republican Party is barreling forward to the mid-term elections without an objective. If it's a "wave" they're riding, rest assured that they have absolutely no idea where it's going to crash.

Jason Linkins

Glenn Greenwald Has Said Kind Things About The Armed Forces, As It Turns Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media


Time's Joe Klein levelled a significant and ugly charge: that he had "never seen [Greenwald] write a positive sentence about the US military." But Greenwald has.

I See Dead People Joe Klein

Sean Carman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy


Sean Carman

"Aren't you the journalist who tirelessly promoted the Iraq War? And defended the Bush Administration's illegal wiretap and detention programs while admitting you knew nothing about them?"

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein Is Now Warblogging With Critics, Forever

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Klein is upset about all the mean things being said about him on the Internet, and the litigation of his hurt feelings is somehow considered news by Time, for reasons passing understanding.

Joe Klein: Glenn Greenwald "Thoroughly Dishonorable" For Leaking My Off-The-Record Emails

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


On Monday, Salon writer Glenn Greenwald published an off-record email exchange on his personal blog, which has since caused a bit of an uproar in the ...

Joe Klein: GOP Has Become A Party Of Nihilists

TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


In one of those awful collisions between public policy and real life, I was in the midst of an awkward conversation about end-of-life issues with my f...

Joe Klein: How Special Interests Could Block Reform

TIME | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics


One of the most difficult things to do in a democracy is react to a problem that is real, but not immediately threatening. Obama is trying to do this ...

Joe Klein: Obama Needs To Get Tougher On Domestic Agenda

TIME | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of thes...

Ryan Grim

McCain Won't Say Obama Is On Iran Reformers' Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


Either Sen. John McCain didn't hear Joe Klein tell him to "be quiet" or he doesn't care, because the former presidential candidate went right back at ...

Iran: Media Loves a Revolution

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it's revolution that the media adores.

Sam Stein

McCain Hits Obama On Iran Again, Joe Klein Tells Him "Be Quiet" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


Sen. John McCain continued to rap President Barack Obama for his measured reaction to the crisis in Iran, which McCain said was inadequate in its supp...

Hamas Leader Reviews Obama Speech

Time | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


About an hour after Barack Obama's excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about the speech ...

Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense

TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of right...

Joe Klein Defends Chas Freeman Against "Rabid" Jewish Opposition

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics


I've been loathe to join the argument about whether the veteran diplomat Chas Freeman should be hired to lead the National Intelligence Council. I don...

Joe Klein: Obama's Decision To Wait On Afghan Troops "Very Good News"

Time | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama's decision to think carefully about the situation in Afghanistan before he sends more troops there is very good news. It shows a Command...

Mr. President, They're Just Not That Into You

Ari Melber | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics


Ari Melber

Less than a month into his presidency, Obama has found that no one is really buying bipartisanship. The notion that a bipartisan process will yield more GOP support has been officially shredded.