{"id":1568,"date":"2009-10-24T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2009-10-25T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T21:20:34","slug":"even-joel-klein-obama-went-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1568\/even-joel-klein-obama-went-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Joe Klein Thinks Obama Went Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, Joe Klein (almost) <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.blogs.time.com\/2009\/10\/23\/outfoxed\/\" target=\"_blank\">proves<\/a> the adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day. As <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomlineblog.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently documented<\/a>, Klein has an inability to set aside his partisan pom-poms and see the real issue in a news story. But not when it comes to the White House&#8217;s war on Fox News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with war is that it diverts attention from the actual news. The Administration has tried to pursue a sophisticated, difficult domestic and foreign policy. It doesn&#8217;t offer the quick-fix irresponsibility of a tax cut or an invasion. It needs space, time and patience to explain. This is an enervating, midstream moment. It&#8217;s not certain that the President&#8217;s efforts from health care to Afghanistan will succeed. We&#8217;ll know a lot more in a month, but I really hope the White House hasn&#8217;t launched this attack to fill the public space while the other issues are being sorted out. The long-term costs of stooping to Fox&#8217;s level are not just bad posture; they are diminution of the office and its primary occupant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Klein has a few more hours to be right again.\u00a0 The clock is ticking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, Joe Klein (almost) proves the adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day. As recently documented, Klein has an inability to set aside his partisan pom-poms and see the real issue in a news story. But not when it comes to the White House&#8217;s war on Fox News: The problem with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,355,44],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-klein","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}