Three Cheers for Triangulation [TIME's Joe Klein says all bloggers are nuts]

Time Magazine ^ | August 13, 2006 | Joe Klein

[summer]

Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman in last week's Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut precipitated the expected torrent of rubbish from left-wing blognuts and conservative wingnuts. There was a nauseating triumphalism on both sides, the unblinking assertion that this one poorly attended summer primary provided a lesson of earth-shattering significance to the future of American politics. Maybe it did, but I hope not....

...On the other side, Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org and therefore, perhaps, the nation's blognut in chief, proposed the "death of triangulation"—that is, the end of Clintonian moderation—in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece and announced a return to ... well, the party's stupid excesses of the '70s and '80s....

But Pariser and the MoveOniks can't seem to get Bill Clinton's success out of their craw. They persist in seeing "triangulation"—which was the consultant Dick Morris' odious term for Third Way liberalism—as a mere political strategy rather than a governing philosophy. It was a bit of each, of course. But the philosophy was both successful and profound...

...Pariser calls for an era of "bolder, principle-driven politics." But we've suffered all the boldness we can handle these past six years. In the end, the real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic extremism. It is bipartisan moderation—which has the additional advantage of being the highest form of patriotism and the only route to victory in a time of war.

[summer]

Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman in last week's Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut precipitated the expected torrent of rubbish from left-wing blognuts and conservative wingnuts.

I think Joe Klein is really off-base by calling everyone who blogs a "nut."

[Red Badger]

I resemble that remark!..........

[summer]

We only call mainstream media "MSM"-- who is the one showing restraint? The blog-"nuts" -- or MSM?

[summer]

LOL...

[dirtboy]

Why is it that just about every liberal blogger has a scraggly beard? Including the women?

[msnimje]

That's fair.

All TIME employees are egg sucking, liberal, whiney, wussie, terrorist loving dogs.

[SF Republican]

calling everyone who blogs a "nut." Is that what he said - everyone?

[weegee]

Pajama People rule.

Still waiting for the press/networks to break the story on a news agency that fabricates news. All such reports have come from the "new media" bloggers.

I don't mean the mass media CARRYING a report, I mean uncovering the hoax before anyone else.

[KJC1]

They only wish that all bloggers are nuts.

By the way, wasn't the "pajama" guy named Klein too?

[summer]

OK, we could sink to their level, but, why? OK, never mind! I just realized how many angry posts my remark might spark! ROTFLMAO!

[Publius6961]

I think Joe Klein is really off-base by calling everyone who blogs a "nut."

I don't really think he said that.
The example he gives are very specific.
Whoever wrote this article is using the usual mindless spin.

[summer]

Read my post #1.

[summer]

No, he said that. He makes no exceptions.

[em2vn]

If you are going to make grand generalization don't forget, lace panty wearing, pinko commie bastards.

[summer]

Re your post #8 - I agree.

[zarf]

Joe sits above the rabble from his throne at Time. The new media is really pissing him off.

[summer]

ROTFLMAO... yeah, OK, but - he did say what he said. Read his article. And, I think the real reason he believes all bloggers are "nuts" is because no blogger is sitting around writing a blog on how great "triangulation" was back in the Clinton era, like Klein believes...

[summer]

Re your post #16 - I think you've got it right.

[SF Republican]

I did read your post -

I think Joe Klein is really off-base by calling everyone who blogs a "nut."

My question is where does Klein say everyone who blogs (is)a nut?

[martin_fierro]