Joe Klein's latest: you won't believe it (really)

Black is white, up is down, and Joe Klein isn't afraid to tell you about it.
This morning, the maroon said:

The Bush reaction to this — he didn’t try to block it. He didn’t try to postpone it. He didn’t spend weeks, he didn’t ask the intelligence community ‘give me a couple of weeks, let’s see if we can figure out some kind of negotiating initiative or some way to respond to this.’ He didn’t try to spin it to our advantage. This is an amazing moment of candor by the United States.

I know you THINK you know what he meant....
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Among a few hundred others,

A skeptical Joe Scarborough responded to Klein’s cheerleading for the administration, stating, "Well that’s one way to look at it," then explained that Bush continued to warn of World War III with Iran despite knowing better. Klein chuckled, "There is that..."

Eventually, Klein decided that he might be able to spin out of his ridiculous statements about Bush. So.............

In a post titled "Misinterpreted," Klein responds to our criticism:

   This is wrong. Obviously, I was referring to the NIE itself as a remarkable moment of candor for the United States. I thought that Bush’s reaction to it was, literally, incredible. As in, not to be believed–which was made completely clear in my cover story.

I mean, is this what Joe Klein has come to, at last? Has he no shame, no self-awareness, no realization that people can "see him?" What a 1y1ng @$$h0le. I can't imagine why TIME or anybody else would want this guy's name on the door.
Well, ok, maybe on THAT door...

•  tips/more possible tags

  fabrication, falsification for remuneration, whole cloth, white lies, black lies, fibs, bullshit, bending the truth, breaking the truth, whoppers, making shit up

  by seesdifferent on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:13:09 PM PDT

  •  Prevarication, equivocation...

    ...mental midget masturbation.

    by AnotherMassachusettsLiberal on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:35:16 PM PDT

    •  mendacity, centrifugal vortex, deceit,

      falsification.

      by nicejoest on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:58:14 PM PDT

  •  BarbinMD front paged this latest Klein-bottle ...

    ... maneuver (it's got neither inside nor outside -- it's just a surface).  Her story has, I think, scrolled off the FP.

    by Yellow Canary on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 08:41:33 PM PDT

  •  You forgot "sucks the Neocon Big One"

    Ah, maybe that's too many words.

    Just "sucks" for starters.

    by John Poet on Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 01:07:06 AM PDT

•  I wish I could say I was surprised.

  But I'm not.

  Most of our media is comprised of jock-strap sniffing misfits, and Klein's favorite odor is that of his own ass.

  Especially when he's covering it.

  by TheBlaz on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:14:31 PM PDT

•  Once the truth becomes relative

  there is no truth.

  by captainlaser on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:17:39 PM PDT

•  You might be interested in this.

  It has a link to the fairy tale he was telling this morning-

  Bright And Shiny Objects from DocuDharma.

  by ek hornbeck on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:19:32 PM PDT

  •  that tracks with other sources, and

    it appears as though that ground was covered, slightly, but effectively, by KeithO.

    Joek Lein simply cannot help himself. He is so full of being "IN", that he will say or do anything to protect that.

    by agnostic on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 08:10:46 PM PDT

•  Joe would have a different outlook..

  if he pulled his head out of his ass. But it won't happen because he likes the smell of the neighborhood.

  by Ex Con on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:22:21 PM PDT

  •  Yep.

    

    by TheBlaz on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:28:55 PM PDT

    •  LOL

      Somebody get this guy a glass bellybutton so he can see where he's going!

      by jft on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 09:57:50 PM PDT

•  Joe klein, the trite and trivial

  establishment pundit who's relevance assumes huge fantasy proportions in the DVR of his small mind.  What exactly is his value to the Common Good?

  by Pithy Cherub on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:25:14 PM PDT

•  Bye,, bye Joe, I cancelled my TIME subscription

  today.  I sent the renewal notice back with a note saying I could not renew as long as joe Klien was on their staff, as if my little voice would made any difference.

  by drmah on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:25:37 PM PDT

  •  No single raindrop

    thinks he is responsible for catapulting Joe Klein into the obscurity he so richly deserves.  Nicely done.

    by Pondite on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 08:04:10 PM PDT

•  Why doI continue to read and listen

  to the Klein's of the world? I get nothing but a spastic colon and a migrane. Oh, and my toes are about to curl to the point that they will soon be in fixed contractures.

  by alasmoses on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:29:50 PM PDT

•  Joe shows his true identity with the classic

  Republapology,

  "I'm sorry that you misunderstood me."  

  Blaming the victims of his own stupidity.  Joe, just go away.

  by illinifan17 on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:56:44 PM PDT

•  Throw Time Magazine in the garbage

  It's been a right wing rag for decades.  Throw it out.

  by davefromqueens on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 08:11:39 PM PDT