Joe Klein--"Anonymous" author of Primary Colors

Excuse me, Joe Klein, if your observations sound a bit trite--like perhaps you haven't actually covered a tea party rally as closely as you did the Clinton campaign. "I did a little bit of research just before this show - it's on this little napkin here." And he's decided, not in favor of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of speech and the right of assembly, and the right for a redress of grievances. Oh no, now it's sedition when Tea Parties disagree with the President's take-overs of car companies and health care industry. Remember, Joe, that pesky First Amendment is also what gives the press its freedom. Take away ours with your careless snide charges scribbled boldly on napkins, and you just might lose yours too.

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Joe Klein is just wrong about where the venom originates

In my opinion, left wing bloggers are the most vicious and much more plentiful, so Klein is giving them a pass when he writes for Time about his critics on the left that, "Some of this is understandable: 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." They aren't aping, Joe, they aren't imitating; they invented the sneer, smear and shout campaigns. Or are you too young to remember the 60s? I've never heard Rush or Hannity or Laura or Malkin say anything as vicious as what I can read on any leftist blog--or particularly their commenters. They have way more class than the left--for starters, they provide information instead of name calling.

And if I were a hard hitting, commie blogger, I sure wouldn't appreciate being compared to Rush Limbaugh as my inspiration!