http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/joe_klein This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Joe Klein en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070003 In his <em>Time</em> column, Joe Klein claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is aware of the "potential problem" of his "patriotism," as "patriotism replaced hope as a theme of his [March 4] concession speech [in Texas]." As evidence, Klein wrote that Obama "echoed John McCain in citing Abraham Lincoln, and called America 'the last best hope on Earth.' " Klein then falsely claimed: "That was the only 'hope' he mentioned -- a fascinating calibration." In fact, Obama mentioned "hope" at other points in the speech, and he has repeatedly used Lincoln's "the last best hope on Earth" line during his presidential campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070003 Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:48:57 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712150001 On CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Joe Klein: "You actually -- you hear fear in Hillary Clinton's voice?" Klein responded: "Well, it's interesting. Earlier in the year when she was doing really well, she was speaking more slowly and from, like, her diaphragm. Now, she's speaking much more quickly again and through her nose. It's interesting." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200712150001 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:50:44 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:29:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709230001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709230001 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:55:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180005 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:31:46 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705190001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705190001 Fri, 18 May 2007 20:01:11 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705180004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705180004 Fri, 18 May 2007 14:51:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703190004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703190004 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:38:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701100002 To support his assertion that Democrats who oppose President Bush's possible plan to increase U.S. forces in Iraq risk "sound[ing] like ill-informed dilettantes," Joe Klein attacked <em>The</em> <em>New York Times</em>' Paul Krugman for not mentioning, in a recent column, that retired Gen. Jack Keane, among others, supports a troop increase. However, Keane recently appeared to support plans to send "[a]n additional 20,000 troops" to Iraq, despite having asserted, less than two weeks earlier, that adding "at least 30,000 combat troops" was the "only" option to "[b]ring security to Baghdad." http://mediamatters.org/items/200701100002 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:21:46 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612050003 Two weeks after gushing over John McCain's likely presidential bid, the host and panelists on <em>The</em> <em>Chris Matthews Show </em>concluded that some of Hillary Rodham<em> </em>Clinton's greatest perceived strengths as a presidential candidate were really weaknesses. http://mediamatters.org/items/200612050003 Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:13:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606260010 Chris Matthews and <em>Time</em> columnists Andrew Sullivan and Joe Klein heaped praise on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, never mentioning that Rice, in her current capacity and previously as national security adviser, repeatedly made false or misleading statements about the administration's use of intelligence in advance of the Iraq war and pre-9-11 intelligence. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606260010 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:06:47 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606190011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200606190011 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:40:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606060002 <em>Time</em> columnist Joe Klein continued his pattern of denigrating liberals while praising conservatives, this time reviving a quote from <em>Washington Post</em> columnist Michael Kinsley who, in purporting to characterize politics in the 1980s, said that while "liberals hunt down heretics ... conservatives happily chase converts." However, in 1996, Klein used the same Kinsley quote but argued that "[i]t's been the opposite in the '90s." http://mediamatters.org/items/200606060002 Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:46:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260010 On MSNBC's <em>Scarborough Country</em>, <em>Time</em> columnist Joe Klein asserted that former President Bill Clinton will be "a tremendous millstone around [the] neck" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) if she runs for president in 2008, adding, "Not because of tomcatting, but because of the fact that he's been president for eight years." Klein also stated, "I'm not entirely convinced that she's even going to run" and stated that the Republican consensus that Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee is "[b]aloney, baloney, salami." Joe Scarborough then observed that a Hillary Clinton presidency would mean "a Bush or Clinton as president or vice president from 1980 to -- I guess it would be 2016," to which Klein replied: "Gag me with a spoon." http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260010 Fri, 26 May 2006 15:35:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605180012 On CNN's <em>Lou Dobbs Tonight</em>, <em>Time</em> columnist Joe Klein praised President Bush's proposed immigration reforms, claiming that Bush's position on immigration is "deeply held," that while campaigning for the presidency in 2000 Bush would "take essentially the same position he took last night," and that Bush is "going up against the conservative base of the Republican Party on a matter of conscience." However, Klein ignored the White House's reported advocacy of an amendment to Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner's (R-WI) controversial immigration bill that would have facilitated criminal prosecutions of illegal immigrants -- a position nowhere to be found in Bush's recent speech on immigration. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605180012 Thu, 18 May 2006 15:48:09 EST