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Time Mag's Joe Klein: 'A Profoundly un-American Administration'
NewsBusters ^ | January 8, 2009 | Brent Baker

Posted on 01/08/2009 9:35:12 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative

Discussing on MSNBC Thursday night his latest screed for Time magazine (“The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act”), Joe Klein maligned the Bush-Cheney administration, telling 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue host David Shuster: “I think this has been a profoundly un-American administration.” Klein, whose piece for the January 19 edition of the magazine contended Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials “perpetrated what many legal scholars consider to be war crimes,” lamented on MSNBC that “it's going to be very hard to prosecute these people” but, he ruminated about “the fanciful idea” that “it might happen overseas” with “Cheney being snatched mid-stream while, you know, fly fishing in Norway as Augusto Pinochet, the dictator in Chile, was.”

In the magazine harangue posted Thursday, Klein argued that Bush “led directly to the abuses” of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo “when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention -- the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime -- did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban.” He declared: “It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.”

As opposed to the national embarrassment to sober journalism that is Joe Klein?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: joeklein; mediabias; msnbc; time
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1 posted on 01/08/2009 9:35:12 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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Who’s Joe Klein?


2 posted on 01/08/2009 9:39:49 PM PST by texan75010
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To: St. Louis Conservative
What's Klein doing? auditioning to be a regular guest on CoastToCoastAM?

He hates Bush - Cheney and he's a tin foil wrapped nut.

3 posted on 01/08/2009 9:41:40 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: texan75010

Time Magazine is still in business?

Who knew!


4 posted on 01/08/2009 9:41:51 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Most Animals protect their babies. Palestinians kill their babies.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
As opposed to the national embarrassment to sober journalism that is Joe Klein?

Planet Earth to Joe Klein: Your a Moron...

"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke

5 posted on 01/08/2009 9:43:09 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

I’m sure more Americans are so concerned about alleged “war crimes” than the affirmative action mortgages and political payoffs that have led to this economy.

Klein really has his priorities straight, doesn’t he?


6 posted on 01/08/2009 9:43:48 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: St. Louis Conservative

You would Joe would want to be right every now and then if for no other reason than to break the monotony.


7 posted on 01/08/2009 9:44:16 PM PST by hometoroost (Put not your trust in princes...in whom there is no help...happy is he whose hope is in the Lord.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

If Joe Klein thinks that placing women’s panties on the heads of prisoners is a war crime, or even subjecting them to having water poured in their face, even a LOT of water poured in their face is a war crime, I wonder if he’d consider incinerating 100,000 Japanese civilians, like Harry Truman did a war crime. Or if dropping napalm on little Vietnamese kids like LBJ did, was a war crime. Or if fire-bombing the German city of Dresdan like FDR did, a war crime. Or if interning 20,000 Japanese-American citizens for the duration of the war like FDR did, a war crime.

Oh, wait. Those guys weren’t Republicans. Never mind.


8 posted on 01/08/2009 9:45:23 PM PST by MNnice
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Black is white, evil is good, lies are truth, patriotism is unAmerican.

Sure, we get where guys like that are coming from.

9 posted on 01/08/2009 9:46:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: texan75010

“Who’s Joe Klein?”

Retired Marine gunnery sergeant?/extreme sarcasm off


10 posted on 01/08/2009 9:55:22 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Where's the "... not this sh*t again!" guy when you need him?

I am yawning at the idea of a war crimes trial involving Bush or Cheney, inspired by these pathetic gerbil packing idiots who should know better. Klein is way past the line, and should be heavily sedated and under physical restraint for his own good.

11 posted on 01/08/2009 9:56:54 PM PST by Richard Axtell (Let us all relive the Thirties; the Depression, the "New Deal", and the "Cult of Personality.".)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
“I think this has been a profoundly un-American administration.” Klein, whose piece for the January 19 edition of the magazine contended Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials “perpetrated what many legal scholars consider to be war crimes,” lamented on MSNBC that “it's going to be very hard to prosecute these people” but, he ruminated about “the fanciful idea” that “it might happen overseas” with “Cheney being snatched mid-stream while, you know, fly fishing in Norway as Augusto Pinochet, the dictator in Chile, was.”

Here, the obedient serf Klein is servicing the upcoming Marxist Obama administration by drumming up hysterical liberal hatred of Dubya, and his imaginary malfeasances.

Expect the hysterical media Bush blame mongering and Marxist Obama swooning to reach a fever pitch about January 19th, in order to provide Marxist Obama with a grand entrance.

It's not just Klein, his editors had to read and approve.

Human fungi, all.

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12 posted on 01/08/2009 9:57:35 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Sorry, boys - but if your side doesn’t wear a military uniform, you don’t get to claim the Geneva conventions.

Even war has rules.


13 posted on 01/08/2009 9:59:18 PM PST by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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Time Mag's Joe Klein: 'A Profoundly un-American Administration'

Thought this was a story about Obama being born in Kenya?

14 posted on 01/08/2009 10:00:24 PM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: St. Louis Conservative
9-11-2001
15 posted on 01/08/2009 10:02:14 PM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
“I think this has been a profoundly un-American administration.”

I'm confused--I thought it was the Evil Right Wing that called people unpatriotic and unAmerican, while the lefties are so unjudgmental?

16 posted on 01/08/2009 10:02:30 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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Think about this for just a second. The Progressives. through Klien and the MSM are going to start defining us, you and I, as Un-American. Infuriating but interesting.
17 posted on 01/08/2009 10:03:33 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: St. Louis Conservative
a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention -- the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime -- did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban.”

Terrorists aren't signatories to any convention. You shoot them where you find them.

This is the deal we have; we treat them with the utmost respect, and they saw our heads off. A couple of our guys get carried away and amuse themselves putting panties on their heads, and they pay with years in prison for it.

There is no comparison between our treatment of the enemy, and their treatment of us. Joe Klein is twisted if he thinks there is. These people have no idea what torture is; there are real torturers on the loose in this world, but they would wet themselves if they had to confront them. They satisfy themselves by going after the men who do have the courage that they themselves do not.

18 posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:00 PM PST by marron
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Klein argued that Bush “led directly to the abuses” of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo “when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention -- the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime -- did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban.” He declared: “It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.”

Um...what? Has Joe Klein ever read the Geneva Convention?

19 posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:01 PM PST by denydenydeny ("When you ask, how much should you give, they only answer more, more more."-John Fogarty)
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To: Hessian
"Sorry, boys - but if your side doesn’t wear a military uniform, you don’t get to claim the Geneva conventions.

How is this concept so difficult to grasp by the far left wing. This isn't even a close call. When the enemy doesn't abide by ANY rules of modern day warfare, how else can you fight them? Somewhere Winston Churchill and George Patton are nauseated.

20 posted on 01/08/2009 10:06:59 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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