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How to Wank: by Joe Klein

by BooMan
Thu Apr 5th, 2007 at 09:35:59 PM EST

Why does Joe Klein wank? And what exactly is a wanker?

A wanker is someone that can write this:

In the upcoming issue of Time magazine, out Friday, columnist Joe Klein considers what he calls the Bush administration’s “epic collapse.”...

Klein claims, in referring to the president, that he has “tried to be respectful of the man and the office” but now he recognizes that the “defining sins” of his administration “are congenital: they’re part of his personality. They’re not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of slow bleed with a leader so clearly unfit to lead.”
Earlier in the column, Klein hits Bush's "adolescent petulance" and "indifference to reality in Iraq" and charges that his "hyper-partisanship" amounts to "a travesty of governance." He declares that the three major Bush problems of the year “precisely illuminate the three qualities that make this Administration one of the worst in American history: arrogance (the surge), incompetence (Walter Reed) and cynicism (the U.S. Attorneys)."

And then write this:

Posting his column tonight on the Time blog Swampland, Klein notes: "NO! I am not hinting at impeachment. There are no 'high crimes' here. Just a really bad presidency. In fact, I consider impeachment talk counterproductive and slightly nutso."

Wanking is a form of mental masturbation where you report on some basically unavoidable facts and then fail to draw the proper conclusions from your own reporting. And then you call people that do draw the logical conclusions from your reporting 'slightly nutso'. If you do that, you are a wanker. Joe Klein defines the genre.

How to Wank: by Joe Klein | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: How to Wank: by Joe Klein (none / 0)

klein wanks so much he squeaks.

i'm glad you asked

by aarrgghh on Thu Apr 5th, 2007 at 10:28:41 PM EST

Re: How to Wank: by Joe Klein (none / 0)

I'm not sure I get that, but it's probably true.

by BooMan on Thu Apr 5th, 2007 at 10:53:02 PM EST
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Re: How to Wank: by Joe Klein (none / 0)

wank |wa ng k| Brit., vulgar slang
verb [ intrans. ]
(typically of a man) masturbate.

(new oxford american dictionary)

i'm glad you asked

by aarrgghh on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:00:49 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: How to Wank: by Joe Klein (none / 0)

yes...still not sure I get it.

by BooMan on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 12:45:15 PM EST
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Back in the old days (none / 1)

during the Vietnam anti-war times, those of us who defined ourselves as "radicals" used to say that the definition of a "liberal" was someone who understands what's wrong with the country, but doesn't have the guts to accept what the solutions are.

Soldiers are required to do their jobs when politicians fail to do theirs

by leftvet on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 11:35:51 AM EST

Re: How to Wank: by Joe Klein (none / 0)

No pony for Jokeline.

by mikefromtexas on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 09:07:32 PM EST

How to Wank: by Joe Klein | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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