Prominent Liberal Blogger’s Vulgar Attack on Tim Russert

Published: January 16, 2008, 7:55 pm

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, barack obama, brian williams, ezra klein, hillary clinton, tim russert, blogs, meet the press, msnbc, nbc

What's wrong with this picture: a young, prominent, liberal blogger gets a respectable and highly-coveted position with a leading, leftwing magazine, and for some reason, can't shake himself from the vulgarity and vitriol prevalent in his past writing? Such appears to be the case for Ezra Klein, a virtual rising star in the liberal blogosphere, who despite being on the staff of The American Prospect, still feels the need to drop an f-bomb now and again while attacking one of the nation's leading television journalists. As reported by new blogger Unpopular Front (vulgarity warning!): Last night [Klein] said this about the moderation of the Democrat debate on MSNBC:It's almost impossible for me to convey the damage Tim Russert and Brian Williams are doing to the republic this evening. So far, the questioning has gone something like: "Hillary, are you a racist?" "Barack, are you a scary black man who will continually remind us that we are racists?" "Senator

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