I just love how Klein whines how it's all the nasty Right's fault for why the far left bloggers are irresponsible and shrill. That's like saying it's the store's fault for why the shoplifter stole a pair of shoes. Give me a break. These people, as Michelle Malkin has often said, are "unhinged." That's it. They can't stand competition from either Rush or Hannity, perhaps what each man says rings true and stings a little but they'll deny it, and they're just plain hateful and anti-Americana themselves. Next, they'll demand the fairness doctrine for the net as well and try to block all right leaning bloggers seeking balanced and fair discourse.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.

"There's a whole generation of people who believe that serious political discourse consists of Pat Buchanan and Eleanor Clift screaming at each other."

Joe - I think you have Buchanan and Clift confused with someone else that first issued the battle cry against civil discourse in January of 1998:

"First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday firmly denied allegations that her husband had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Mrs. Clinton blamed the sex allegations on a "a vast right-wing conspiracy" against President Bill Clinton."

"I do believe that this is a battle," the first lady said.

""Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president," Mrs. Clinton said."

It's gone steadily downhill from there Joe.  Primarily because of folks such as yourself, that blame the shortcomings of your party leaders on the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh.  Or as your soon to be anointed Presidential candidate labels "this vast right-wing conspiracy".

The difference between the two sides that you fail to acknoledge Joe, is that when conservative politicians act with indiscretion their base demand they resign. When liberal politicians act with the same lack of discretion their base demands a pep rally.

 Unlike yourself Joe, I'm not an authority on what constitutes sewage but something certainly smells unpleasant with your application of the term.

Clay, I found this to be a really funny statement by Klein.

"The intemperance on the left has three other sources (1) justifiable fury over the Bush administration (2) justifiable fury over the way the media treated Clinton and, to a certain extent, Bush and (3) ideologues of any sort tend to be obnoxious."

I would respond to Mr. Klein as follows (responding to Mr. Klein is one reason I like the NB website).

The intemperance on the Left has even three other souces (1) a failure to express ideas that can capture an audience in the Radio market as exemplified by Air America (2) endemic anger and frustration that has to be expressed through the frame of victimhood due to a complete failure to stifle dissent (3) smug intellectual confidence that they are the smartest people in the room which frees them from being labeled the 'ideologues' that they truly are and continue to be regardless of their failures to convince.

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Hillary Clinton says: "I want to take those profits."

Typical mentally ill drivel:   "My negative feelings are somebody else's fault."  "You made me feel bad!"  Liberals are demonstrating classic symptoms of psychological disorder with remarks like those quoted in this thread.   Observing that people who exhibit symptoms of psychiological sickness are by definition, psychologically disturbed, and given that psychological disturbance is a form of mental illness, leads us to the inescapable conclusion that these liberals who behavee this way are mentally ill.

Someday these maladjusted twits will take responsibility for their own feelings and actions.  Christians think this day is called 'white throne judgement'.

Sounds like Mr. Klein needs to go back to kindergarten.  I think that's when my kids learned that you don't excuse bad behavior by pointing at the behavior of others.

Perhaps he could try this on for size:
"It's obvious that the current level of vitriol on the Right is a reaction to nearly twenty years of sewage emanating from Time magazine et al."

". . .(3) ideologues of any sort tend to be obnoxious."  and Klein is leading the pack. If he were REALLY upset with what was going on, then he would have stood up and complained about folks screaming at each other - so I guess he's only complaining now, now that he see's the trend AWAY from the propaganda of the left and is afraid. So Joe, be afraid, truth, for everyone is a scary thing.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V