Jeff Poor: Time’s Joe Klein Cheap Shots Sarah Palin...again

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Jeff Poor is a NewsBuster, which means he watches the drooling leftists on MSNBC so we don"t have to. Whenever clueless Joe Klein appears on rabidly pro-Obama Chris Matthews' "Hairball" program, it's a given that the two snarky liberals will try to tag-kneecap Sarah Palin:

On the July 11 broadcast of his weekend show, Matthews and his panel analyzed Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" ad spot and attempted to determine what Palin's end goal was with the ad. And Time magazine's Joe Klein attributed credit to Palin's charismatic ability.

"The most important thing about Sarah Palin is that she's a great stand-up politician," Klein said. "I mean, when you hear her talk - this is not a woman who has sat in a room with a political consultant telling her how to pronounce words. It's just her voice."

"There's something in the inflection which is provocative," Matthews replied.

But then came the eventual expected cheap shot from Klein. Klein had once said Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck should be tried for sedition on that same program and he didn't disguise his disdain for Palin on this episode either.

"But I think that's balanced against the fact that she doesn't know anything," Klein said. "And that's a big problem."

Klein is notorius for his comment that criticism of Obama by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh was "close to being seditious."

- JP

The 'Seditious' Sarah Palin

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The unhinged left is moonbat-guano crazy in its Palin derangement:

Liberals are all too often eager to charge conservative personalities of using hyperbole to gain a political advantage, especially when it contradicts their world view - whether it's suggesting the Obama administration is taking the country down the path of socialism, fascism or any other -ism.

However, it could be argued there's a different set of standards for those same people when they want to make strong charges. On NBC's April 18 "The Chris Matthews Show," Time columnist Joe Klein all but accused former GOP vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, along with Fox News host Glenn Beck of sedition.

"I did a little bit of research just before this show - it's on this little napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious."

NRO's Daniel Foster adds:

Co-panelist John Heilemann heartily agreed, and cited Rush Limbaugh's references to the "Obama regime" as further evidence.

Of course, a Google search for "Bush regime" yields over 1.4 million hits; and liberal talking heads often used the phrase to describe the previous administration. In fact, Matthews was himself embarrassed last week when, after making Heilemann's same point, his own on-air references to the "Bush regime" surfaced.

Curious that liberal research ignores those 1.4 million references to "Bush Regime," but "progressives" are never going to let a mere thing like hypocrisy get in the way of demonizing conservatives. But what is more disturbing is that Klein seems to be longing for the "good old days" of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Now that's scary.

- JP

Quote of the Day (September 20, 2009)

From Scott Michaels at Entitlement Syndrome:

"Much of Palin’s life story — when set free of the vicious leftwing characterization of her as being some sort of hillbilly trailer trash — is the stuff of Old Hollywood scripts and Frank Capra-esque film treatments. At the least, it certainly would serve as an outstanding example of how Americans and their families – big, boisterous and rumble-tumble as most are — are normally celebrated."

- JP