So said Time columnist Joe Klein just before the Iraq war. And now, Joe Klein pretends that he was all against this Iraq war from day one.
Joe Klein is just the latest of the so-called “MSN” pundits caught red-handed by the political bloggers. Scientist (and leftist blogger) Sean Caroll gives you all the details of the spat between Joe Klein and the bloggers.
Joe Klein is also the author of Primary Colors, the book and the movie (with John Travolta as Bill Clinton). I watched the movie many times. Great stuff.
After the publication of the book (Primary Colors), Joe Klein was fired from NewsWeek and CBS News Sunday (as a political editorialist) for lying to other journalists (in particular to Dan Rather) about being the author of the book —which was first published under the “Anonymous” label.
A pity we can’t turn this Klein-vs-bloggers spat into an event derivative (for lack of clearly defined observables used for contract expiry). It would be fun!
