More unseemly whining by the MSM

Joe Klein of Time magazine thinks that the left blogosphere is being irrational and mean to his favorite politicians and good liberal reporters like himself

Beware the Bloggers's Bile

I'd take his critique to heart if only he had the guts to admit that his employer is guilty of the same sins he condemns.

Example. He gets in the obligatory slap at talk radio:

the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful—and politically successful—tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered.

Umm. Ever hear of Nancy Grace, Joe? She works for Time-Warner just like you do. Her show on CNN Headline News makes Rush's radio show sound like a Socratic Dialogue.

Example. He worries about bloggging's tone and mode of discourse:

But the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed.

Hmm. "Fierce." "Bullying." "Savaged." "Ridiculed." I take it that he is against these sort of things. So tell me why he was (and is) quiet about the bloggers Time hired? Ana Marie (Wonkette) Cox and Andrew Sullivan were and are paragons of the shallow, unthinking, attack post. So why did Time pick the worst of the worst when they brought bloggers in house? Why not pick some of the more level-headed, more substantive bloggers that Klein claims to value?