I got this a few weeks ago, and many of you have probably already seen it before... but with the bit of Romney snark going on, I just couldn't resist... not once I got this e-mail from David Sirota.
Now, Sirota's no big Kerry fan. But I LOVED what he had to say about Mittens.
Emphases mine and in
italics.Time to Finally Put Joe Klein Out to Pasture
By David Sirota
I'd like to nominate Time Magazine's Joe Klein for an award. By mastering the art of spewing back stale conventional wisdom, he has consistently set new standards for how pundits today should be obedient, neutered government spokespeople, whose only job is to transcribe without question what the latest politician told them at the latest cocktail party. And this week's piece by Klein (attached) does not disappoint - it shows why Joe Klein needs to be honored as a true icon of modern day journalistic failure.
Klein's piece is about what he calls a "remarkable" health care plan proposed by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R). After slobbering all over himself in describing Romney's good looks and oh-so-incredible personality, Klein tells us Romney calls his plan "a personal responsibility system."
"slobbering all over himself"... ROFL ROFL ROFL
Sounds pretty good, right? Sure does to Klein, who from his comfortable, cushy perch at Time has rarely gone out and actually reported on the real-life struggles of ordinary Americans.
*snipped large chunk about health insurance*
Put another way, Klein's pathetically narrow intellectual boundaries never allows him to see that the idea that most people "choose" to be uninsured is a right-wing myth that plays on the subjective nature of the word "choose."
Klein happily swallows Romney's statistics claiming that about half of his state's uninsured "choose" to be uninsured.
What's more troubling, though, about Klein's piece is not how he idiotically regurgitates the subjective information given to him, but how he justifies and glowingly packages a proposal that is highly regressive.
This is Joe Klein at his most, well, Joe Klein: a totally insulated, morally bankrupt shill for the corporate conventional wisdom that dominates American politics. So stale, dried up, and unable to step back and think about what he's writing about, he serves as a conduit for smarmy corrupt politicians like Romney to package their corporate-written proposals as somehow populist and "remarkable."
So beautifully of one mind with me, on the subject of this pretty-boy, Stepford-wife-loving, too-many-kids-having, lookit-me-aren't-I-
virile, hater-of-his-own-state governor.
It is long past time for Joe Klein to be put out to pasture. But then, that would be cruel and unusual punishment for the old dying cows that would have to listen to his inane B.S.
Ed Schultz has warmed up to Kerry. C'mon, Mr. Sirota. You can do it.