I'm glad that they're putting pressure on NPR/PBS, because it's pretty clear that corporate-funded media are better than publicly/government-funded media. Just stack up the BBC and Fox, and I think you can tell pretty clearly which one is just parroting a biased elite perspective and which one is just giving you the straight facts.
HANNITY: You question her sexuality, though, four times in the book, but she's a married woman with a child. I mean, do you not consider --
KLEIN: I'm not the first person who has questioned her sexuality.
HANNITY: I know. But without -- there's no evidence of any such thing. Is it fair? Do you consider her daughter in all of this? Should we consider her daughter?
KLEIN: The rumors of Hillary's sexuality started in Arkansas 30-some-odd years ago.
HANNITY: But is it fair? I don't want to defend Hillary, I have so many political disagreements. Shouldn't we keep it on the political?
KLEIN: Hillary was asked by Bill Clinton's campaign manager in 1974, "Hillary, please come out and deny these rumors. They're hurting Bill Clinton."
HANNITY: When did you stop beating your child?
KLEIN: And she said, "I'm not going to do it."
HANNITY: But why does she -- why should she have to? If she's a married woman with a child.
KLEIN: Because she's given all kinds of signals that her sexuality is in question.
In a related story, I'm excited about how the media-at-large is going to call on Republicans to distance themselves from Bill O'Reilly's statements about how liberal "undermining" should be punished with federal imprisonment. Just like when the media called on Democrats to distance themselves from Fahrenheit 9/11.
I've never understood the mechanics of this "undermining." Do the troops in Iraq have a lot of free time to listen to Air America? Do they even get it over there? Do their parents mail them daily transcripts? Are the Air America hosts privy to top-secret data that they pass on to "the insurgents" (and who the fuck are these people anyway, even if you wanted to contact them?)? I just don't see how people talking has much effect on a war taking place halfway around the war. Maybe if they were praying that the troops would die or the insurgents would win, I could see the objection, but I thought liberals were godless.
Speaking of Air America and returning to the subject of Ed Klein, I heard Al Franken say he'd like to have Ed Klein on his show along with Joe Conason.
> Thank goodness these charges are untrue, and we won't hear about them anymore.
good one.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:34 AM
Also, no one will buy the book for this reason.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:35 AM
Ed Klein won't be invited on any talk shows.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:36 AM
If he is, though, the interviewers will be well-informed as to the refutations of any allegations he's made in his book.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:40 AM
And the format of the shows will be such as to allow for both those refutations and his explanation and defense of himself to be well articulated.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:44 AM
Sometimes, I wish I was dead.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:45 AM
I'm glad that they're putting pressure on NPR/PBS, because it's pretty clear that corporate-funded media are better than publicly/government-funded media. Just stack up the BBC and Fox, and I think you can tell pretty clearly which one is just parroting a biased elite perspective and which one is just giving you the straight facts.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:55 AM
Moochin' war widows.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:57 AM
I just hope that the Moynihans and Clintons show grace after Klein's forthcoming apology.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 10:58 AM
I bet Ed Klein feels really bad and guilty about all this right now.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 11:57 AM
In which I side with Sean Hannity:
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:17 PM
What a turd.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:18 PM
Did Ed Klein just give a clear and unambiguous signal that he has not stopped beating his child? My sources say yes.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:21 PM
I hear you have no less than two anonymous sources on that.
No, wait; one.
No, wait...two.
Nope, sorry; just one.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:23 PM
link
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:24 PM
In a related story, I'm excited about how the media-at-large is going to call on Republicans to distance themselves from Bill O'Reilly's statements about how liberal "undermining" should be punished with federal imprisonment. Just like when the media called on Democrats to distance themselves from Fahrenheit 9/11.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:33 PM
apostropher is a liberal underminer.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:34 PM
I've never understood the mechanics of this "undermining." Do the troops in Iraq have a lot of free time to listen to Air America? Do they even get it over there? Do their parents mail them daily transcripts? Are the Air America hosts privy to top-secret data that they pass on to "the insurgents" (and who the fuck are these people anyway, even if you wanted to contact them?)? I just don't see how people talking has much effect on a war taking place halfway around the war. Maybe if they were praying that the troops would die or the insurgents would win, I could see the objection, but I thought liberals were godless.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:50 PM
Don't try and parse it using logic, Adam. It's a waste of time. O'Reilly is just a Little League fascist.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 1:55 PM
Speaking of Air America and returning to the subject of Ed Klein, I heard Al Franken say he'd like to have Ed Klein on his show along with Joe Conason.
Posted by Abby | Link to this comment | 06-22-05 2:48 PM