What Bibi Gains by Misrepresenting Obama's Mideast Policy [Joe Klein guns for a Nina Burleigh award]

TIME ^ | Thursday, May 26, 2011 | Joe Klein

[GeronL]

Didn’t Obama in his second speech call for connecting Gaza and the West Bank?? Slicing Israel in half isn’t going to affect security at all?.

“misrepresent” means tell the truth

[TexasCajun]

Wouldnt' expect anything more from Kneepads Klein.

[KeyLargo]

Obama accuses Bibi of creating Jewish strawman.

[Paleo Conservative]

Obviously Time is not on Bibi's side.

[Darteaus94025]

"And so it wasnt hard to imagine..."

"Imagine"? If Joe is observing something so outrageous, why doesn't Joe write an article based on facts, not imaginings?

[Lancey Howard]

This is some funny stuff!
Rarely have I seen such groveling from a columnist. I think Klein’s been sharing a hot tub with Barry.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Time=The death rattle of the American weekly news magazine.

[Louis Foxwell]

And so it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, willfully misinterpreted Obamas statement about the need to renegotiate Israels borders.

IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.

[nathanbedford]

Nathan Bedford's first maximum of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

How does that maxim relate to Joe Klein's article?

First, the article is simply factually wrong. It was not Be Be Netanyahu who misrepresented Obama's remarks but Obama himself who misrepresented his own remarks as he walked them back. So what prompted Joe Klein to write lies?

If one recalls Joe Klein was the anonymous author of Primary Colors an account of the emerging Bill Clinton which nailed Clinton for the utter fraud that he was but forgave him all because of Clinton's poignant empathy for African-Americans which obviously profoundly impressed Joe Klein.

Joe Klein is the blatant example of left-wing American journalism that is utterly in the tank for Barack Obama because Obama is liberal and black. Klein would accept any fault in Bill Clinton because Clinton was later to be defined as the first black president. So, Klein will excuse any fault, commit any journalistic sin, to defend the first real black president.

There is nothing, repeat nothing, in Joe Klein's world that cannot be rationalized by way of racial politics.

[TWhiteBear]

Mr. Klein has a real talent for unintentional mind pictures.
‘it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears’
Now would that be of the regular chain smoking cigarette variety or the remains of his lucrative crack cocaine business? Photoshop would be great here.
And coming out those Gigantic Ears!!
Keep writing, Mr. Kline! You might get to replace Mr. Biden as court jester.
TWB

[TWhiteBear]

Mr. Klein has a real talent for unintentional mind pictures.
‘it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears’
Now would that be of the regular chain smoking cigarette variety or the remains of his lucrative crack cocaine business? Photoshop would be great here.
And coming out those Gigantic Ears!!
Keep writing, Mr. Klein! You might get to replace Mr. Biden as court jester.
TWB

[Lazamataz]

Obama: I want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders.

Netanyahu: So, you are saying you want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders.

Joe Klein: STOP MISREPRESENTING WHAT OBAMA SAID!!!!!

[EDINVA]

Is it the case that Barry was a not-yet-6 year old during the Six Day War in June 1967, and living in (or headed to) Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation?

[Tex-Con-Man]

IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.

Who knew that Obama and Newt suffer from the same "I am so brilliant, common people don't understand me, so I have to re-explain myself repeatedly" disorder?

[Lancey Howard]

This President is so vague in concept and hollow in expression that there is nothing he says that he can’t wriggle out of.

Oh yeah? Ubama was pretty darn clear about "hope" and "change", wasn't he?

[combat_boots]

F.A.R.T. alert!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[jospehm20]

The old Soviet Union Pravda was more critical of their leaders than the current MSM journo-lists are of Barky.

[no-to-illegals]

Joe Klein attempts to misrepresent the truth, again, should be the headline, or (alternate headline) Joe Klein buys knee pads prior to White House visit.

[Tex-Con-Man]

F.A.R.T. alert!

ummm...thanks for the warning?!?