Russ Feingold responds to Joe Klein's Lack of Journalism
By Nicole Belle Sunday Dec 02, 2007 1:30pm
The Chicago Tribune published Joke Line's infamous column last week for which Glenn Greenwald so deservedly ripped him. And now, they're giving Sen. Russ Feingold a chance to respond to him:
Joe Klein criticizes the Democrats on Iraq, even though we are acting on the demands of the American people that we bring the Iraq war to a close ("What others are saying," Editorial, Nov. 28).
And Klein calls the Democrats' position on reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "well beyond stupid" but without getting his facts straight. Read on...
This is the kind of pushback the Democrats in office must do every time the "liberal" media tries to smear them with dishonest reporting. Joke Line, you are pwned.
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Russ for Veep.
Foist!
Darn you to heck raymond! to heck I say! ;)
Evidently...Klein is a schwance.
Ah Russ Feingold. I hope I get the cage next to him at Gitmo next year. Then I can read Stephanie Miller's mash notes before I pass them along.
Get 'em Russ! Rip him a new one!
'Kline'? C'mon C+L, spellcheck plz ;)
what are those newly vertebrate creatures doing in Washington? Are those *gasp* Democrats with spines!?!
If ever there were a convincing case for cloning, it's Russ Feingold. We need a hundred more just like him.
Yes, I do heart him, just don't tell Colbert about my other love.
deezus @ 8:
Senator Feingold has a long record of having a spine of iron. He's the smartest fu*king person in the Senate if not in DC. No one wants him on their team cause he can kick anyone's ass.
Joe Klein, lazy celebrity stenographer.
Call me Captain Obvious but it I cannot say it enough. For his consistent leadership and integrity, Russ Feingold has become one the few heroes to emerge from the muck and mire that is our political landscape. Feingold is a truly great American.
AF
I'd rather Senator Feingold save his energy to filibuster the Senate FISA bill.
pissed off patricia @ 9:
I'm soooo tellin! :p
liberalNmoderation @ 4:
And Feingold is a mensch.
moondancer @ 11:
I'm more inclined to believe that Operation Mockingbird is alive and well and 2007 and Joke Line is in its employ.
“By the early 1950s…(the State Dept.) owned respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst….Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda.”
- former Village Voice Reporter Deborah Davis commenting on the CIA Program Operation Mockingbird to infiltrate the media
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ RANCHO/ POLITICS/ MOCK/ mockingbird.html
"Ah Russ, you were mensch for me!"
Feingold is my hero!!!
A TRUE statesman in Congress, and there are so few left.
don't hate me @ 13:
Unlike most of those in DC, Feingold can actually do two things at one time. Don't worry, he never lets us down.
LibertyLover @ 18:
From the time he said he didn't vote for the patriot act and someone asked him why, he has been my hero. He said he didn't vote for it because he read it and didn't like what it contained.
I am sooo happy that we have a Senator Feingold in the US Senate. He is constantly ahead of his peers in the US Senate. It is a shame that he is not running for President in '08. He is ahead of he peers in the Democratic Party as well. We need to support him when he runs for reelection.
Go Russ!
I remember when people were saying Feingold couldn't get elected as president because he had been divorced twice and was Jewish.
pissed off patricia @ 23:
Unfortunately, POP, I don't doubt that that's still true.
His record in marriages compared to Rudy's, no contest.
As for his being Jewish, it sure as hell doesn't bother me. But you're probably right.
don't hate me @ 16:
I've been saying the same for years, it's so obvious that it boggles the mind.
TOTALLY DISGUSTED? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
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This is the kind of pushback the Democrats in office must do every time the “liberal” media tries to smear them with dishonest reporting. Joke Line, you are pwned.
Nicole, the Democrats need to go on the OFFENSIVE. Playing DEFENSE all the time is a losing position. In order to go on the offensive they need to start buying media NOW, since they have virtually no way to reach the masses. Buy every radio station, newspaper and cable channel that's available. Then start launching attacks (fact based) at the Republicans. Make them defend themselves. Make them backpeddle. This is the winning position.
Anything Joe Klien writes from hence forth should be tagged as Klien of true.
Gust @ 7:
Sometimes it's hard to interpret intention just by reading a headline on the "internets", but I assumed the headline to this story was intentionally misspelled:
Joe Kline = Joke Line
But, maybe I am just crazy, who knows.
don't hate me @ 28:
That is the smartest damn thing I've heard regarding this situation yet!
Joke Line, you are pwned. Nicolle Belle.
Wow, I feel like I am observing elementary school. So sophisticated.
So, did Klein change his name to Kline?
And who was that supposed to fool?
Amused @ 32:
Ya know, I've never heard anyone use that term in real life...how the hell is it pronounced anyway? lol! Yeah I'm old so what!? When I was your age, we didn't HAVE kids your age!
Well, this is something but, personally I think the kind of pushback we need is the type where the Democrats just shut down the damned government entirely and refuse to allow anything through until Bush brings the troops home and every citizen who is tired of this regime takes to the streets to protest en masse.
I'm starting to think that Americans in general lack the spine to protect the very republic that spawned them from the worst enemy it's ever faced - our own President.
And you thought Wisconsin's only claim to fame was beer and Packer cheeseheads.
Well, add Russ Feingold - and Herb Kohl - to your list!
liberalNmoderation @ 4:
This shegetz would say he's more of a shmendrick.
Feingold is awesome. Wish he were ours.
The Chicago Tribune sucks.
We stopped getting it years ago. They had a rabid foaming-at-the-mouth Reich-wing columnist they let out of her cage about twice a week to rant during the laughable Clinton Impeachment debacle. Her name was Mona Charon and she's still around somewhere - in her cage I'm sure.
Sane, quasi-intellectual conservative voices on the editorial page were fine - but they crossed the line with her.
It was actually a relief to drop the paper - they had gotten so conservative and we didn't realize how much we'd grown to hate it until we stopped reading it.
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New_Damage @ 37:
And this shiksa would add nudnik and noodge to the name the Joke Line bin...
Nick, ol' Bell, you are peelt.
Anthony Look @ 29:
Actually, that's sort of a pun (though you reversed the spelling).
Klein = 'tiny' in German.
The reliability of his reporting is klein.
Klein shwantz, klein shmendrick.
Trittydi @ 38:
The same for the Tribune's Liesangeles Times.
Lies, liars, and more!
So untruthy, it gives your parakeet a rash.
I confess I don't know the details of this latest Klein b.s., but I suspect Senator Feingold can more than take care of himself against any hack claiming to be a journalist out there...
I do sincerely wish he would be tapped by Kucinich as VP instead of that Paul idea from last week... Hell, if Edwards or Dodd offered the vp to him that would raise their prestige in my eyes as well... Right now I'm on the fence about all three, and this kind of ticket would go along ways in helping me make a choice..
A real choice I wouldn't have to hold my nose on.....JD
At the risk of being seen as a newbie on the information superhighway, what the hell is "pwned"? On second thought, I'm sure it'll sound even dumber once I know.
I believe it to mean punk owned... As in you were punked out and owned by x.... Which itself refers to losing a debate, fight etc etc.... At least that's my interpretation of it.....JD
He certainly got punked, didn't he? Ashton Kutcher could not have done it any better. Thank you, Senator Feingold.
The Chicago Tribune continues to be another mouth piece for Bush and the republicans. While Klein got a big write up last week, Senator Feingold's piece was just a letter to the Editor. At least the Tribune had the decency to publish it. For the. I'm surprise the lapdogs on the Editorial Board let got through. The Tribunes Editorial Board are a bunch of Bushies.
Russ Feingold is the best and most consistent Democratic Party U.S. Senator and overall the best the Senate has today!
To criticize Russ Feingold, the only one in the U.S. Senate to have voted against the ill-constructed U.S. Patriot Act is always going to be a dumb move by anyone with one iota of rational thought left inside of them.
Kline is a Wanker!!
Lindy
Is it wrong that I want to marry Russ Feingold?
James Izzard
Wow! Just heard RANDI RHODES speak in Michigan. Give her WE BELIEVE speech a whirl. http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/ Explains the patriotic duty to IMPEACH.
F Joe Klein wanting to be tough by sucking up to the stasiists. Kudos to Russ for always speaking truth to power. Beltway bumpkins get the bozack
Go Russ!! I've voted for him every chance I've had and will continue to do so because of the example and high standards he brings to the senate. If only all of our representatives were more like Russ.
And this why why I have constantly voted for Feingold in every election!
He's the real deal and the pride of Wisconsin -- the only US Senator who has stood up against Bush and his neo-con cronies consistently. I'm convinced that Feingold is the only US Senator who has actually read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- as well as the offensive "patriot act" that both Clinton and Obama signed on to.
Don't be fooled -- Obama and Clinton aren't "change," they are both "wolves in sheep's clothing."
Vote Kucinich -- Feingold's friend in arms in the House.
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