Jesus, Joe Klein loses the Internet:
I said that I was, in fact, one of his readers—that I read his column
and his blog and that it was precisely because I did know his history,
in detail, that I accepted Glenn’s critique of him, which of course has
always been extensively documented and linked. And then, in what might
be the piece de resistance of this little interaction, he screamed “you
don’t readme! You read
WIKIPEDIA! AND THAT’S LEFTIST.” He then added that he had always been
anti war and that I should “read his [Klein’s] stuff from 1993.”
Hmm…1993, were we at war with Iraq then? I rather thought that was a
different time, and even a different president. I take it that the
rationale behind that bizarre interjection is that, as far as Klein is
concerned, most of this is really old history at this point and what he
really wants to be talking about is health care reform.
A.