Joe Klein

Joe Klein Proposes Bush Memorial In Washington: Statue Of Hooded Abu Ghraib Prisoner

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghr...

Tom Daschle: Clintonizer to Obamanizer

newyorker.com | Posted by Avi Zenilman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics


This morning, President-elect Barack Obama formally announced his plan to nominate former Democratic Senator Tom Daschle as his Secretary of Health an...

Joe Klein: Pakistan Has Been Playing Us For Fools Since 9/11

TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 01.10.2009 | Home


Word that Pakistan has arrested--no, detained--Masood Azhar, the leader of the terrorist group that pulled off the Mumbai assault is being greeted by ...

'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics


Bruce Friedrich

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.

Joe Klein Banned From McCain-Palin Planes Following Criticism Of Campaign

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media


Time columnist Joe Klein, who's been a forceful critic of the McCain campaign (and already said he's unwilling to accept a post-election apology), has...

Joe Klein: McCain's Attacks "Anachronistic"

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics


I'll have more to say about the debate in my print column, which releases later today. But I did want to say a few things about my colleagues--in gene...

Joe Klein's "Embarracuda" -- The Hopeless Descent of The McCain Campaign

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media


Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose Somebody had to say it in the MSM. And Joe Klein of TIME has done the honor. Read the whole Klein piece here.On PalinOver the wee...

Joe Klein: New McCain Ad 'One Of The Sleaziest I've Ever Seen'

Time | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics


Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalist...

Sunday Watch, 8-17-08: On Air Kisses and Free Passes

Todd Gitlin | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

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.

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein Lowers The Boom On Corsi, Matalin, McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.14.2008 | 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...

To "D" or Not to "D"... as in "Debate"

Jerry Weissman | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics


Jerry Weissman

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...

Joe Klein: I Said McCain Was "Honorable," But "I Was Wrong"

Time | Posted 08.08.2008 | 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...

Joe Klein: Neocons Trying To Have Me Fired From Time

Time | Posted 08.07.2008 | 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 ...

Joe Klein: John McCain's Comment On Obama Wanting To Lose War "Most Scurrilous" He's Ever Heard

Huffington Post | Posted 07.30.2008 | 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...

Joe Klein Takes On Neocons Over Anti-Semitism Charge

Time.com | Joe Klein | Posted 07.03.2008 | 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...

This Word Sounds Like That Word! Obama, Osama, And Other Media Tongue-Twisters

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.03.2008 | 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.

Joe Klein: What Hillary Needs To Do To Unite The Party

Time | Posted 06.11.2008 | 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...

McCain Confronted With New Iran Gaffe, Gets Facts Wrong Again (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2008 | 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...

Time: You Can Only Vote For One

Time Magazine | Joe Klein | Posted 05.03.2008 | 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...

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein On Obama: A 'Patriotism Problem'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2008 | 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...

Jason Linkins

Joe Klein 'Stingray' Comment Shocks, Embarrasses CNN Colleagues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Time's Joe Klein Says Catholics Hate Hillary

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Jason Linkins

Time Sends Their Seasoned Political Reporters To Cover Oscar Fashion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Joe Klein On Debate: Romney Did Well 'If You're An Android'

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Matthew and Peter Slutsky

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 ...

Jason Linkins

Radar Digs Up Corpse Of Joe Klein, Kills It Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Whatever part of Klein that remained untrammeled by the Dresden-like firestorm of last week has been filleted anew by Radar today.