I know I should probably stop beating this particular dead horse. Obsessing over the vapidity, faux-elitism, and noblesse oblige of Joe Klein is probably as tiresome as it gets. He will not change, because he lacks a fundamental understanding that his readers are both intelligent and discerning - and think he is too often a self-important, self-promoting blowhard, trying much too hard to prove how smart, insightful, and connected he is.
Having said all that, the headlines for Klein's two posts over at Swampland concerning today's Presidential press conference are as follows:
The Bush Press Conference - The Nonimportant Stuff
The Bush Press Conference - The Important Stuff
For sheer audacious assumed superiority, these win this week's prize for media haughtiness. Couldn't he just type, "Here's what you think" and be done with it? In fact, I think that should be the title of Klein's column for Time. It would be more intellectually honest, and reflect his world-view, viz., I am a Washington-based journalist and author of eight books so I of course know more than anyone.
Is it any wonder he is held in such contempt by so many on the left-blogosphere?
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