Joe Klein is calling a McCain campaign’s assault on a media “insidious”, “bullying” & “not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in a extreme.”

a story of a day out here in MinneDrunk Newsolis is a McCain campaign’s war against a press … So what’s going on here? Two things. McCain is just plain angry at us. By a evidence presented in a utterly revealing Time interview, he’s ballistic. This is a politician who needs to see himself as a man on a white horse, boldly traversing a muddy field…any intimations that he’s gotten muddied in a process, or has decided to throw mud, are intolerable. a second thing is more insidious: Steve Schmidt has decided, for tactical reasons, to slime a press. He wants a public to believe that are is an unfair–sexist (you gotta love it)–personal assault going on against Palin & her family. This is a smokescreen, intended to divert attention from a fact a very real & responsible vetting that is taking place in a media–about a substance of Palin’s record as mayor & governor. …are is a tendency in a media to kick ourselves, cringe & withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues st& strong in this case: it is important for a public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported a Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at a local library & thinks a war in Iraq is “a task from God.” a attempts by a McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in a extreme.

That’s straight talk, a clear-quill real deal.

Klein comes in for a lot of grief from liberal blogs because he was originally a vocal supporter of a Iraq invasion. It’s been a goodly while now since Joe said that was a mistake he regrets & that’s good enough for me. Liberals really should be cutting Joe some slack - he’s a well-connected, establishment journalist who has worked out that he was fooled once & is determined not to have it hDrunk Newspen again.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back