Apparently, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Time‘s Joe Klein, both members of Journolist — what Slate’s Mickey Kaus calls the “secret liberal media email cabal” — are mad at each other. Fine.
What’s interesting about this public hissing contest — now that Greenwald has published some of Klein’s previously private correspondence — is how much Klein, behind a presumed veil of secrecy, openly admits he’s a partisan Democrat who wants to see the party succeed.
Excerpts written by Klein reposted at Tom Maguire’s Just One Minute blog:
If you have a white Democrat who is voting like a Republican?Billy
Tauzin, for example?I don?t really care if he goes down, though I?d
prefer a Democr atic conservative to a Republican if it means that Dems
keep control of the House. But Jim Cooper isn?t remotely like a
Republican. He is thoughtful on a range of issues. He is in favor of
insurance reform, expansion of coverage and robust exchanges. That?s
good enough for me.
Or:
I?ve spent a lifetime watching Democrats eat their own. In the
past, I?ve sometimes been one of the cannibals. I regret that as much
as Ted Kennedy went to his grave regretting that he didn?t make a
universal health care deal with Richard Nixon. At this point, the
Republicans are down to an obnoxious purist sliver. I?d like things to
stay that way. Things will not if Democratic purists and self-righteous
political naifs like Greenwald successfully challenge moderate
Democrats who have won in districts that could easily go Republican.
As Maguire says, wonder what Joe Klein’s editors at Time think about this?
