Kurtz coins phrase: "the Liberal Blogosphere"

[Leopolds Ghost]

I'm sure Howard and Joe Klein have many common interests.

In defense of Joe Klein, Howard Kurtz writes:

The columnist found himself on the defensive last month after suggesting
on ABC's "This Week" that a nuclear option against Iran should remain "on the table."

Klein later wrote that he'd made a mistake and was forced to admit it by "all the
left-wing screeching" from "frothing bloggers." While bloggers can be "a valuable
corrective," he wrote, at other times "your vitriol just seems uninformed, malicious and disproportionate."

He had already drawn the ire of the liberal blogosphere by writing that
former House speaker Newt Gingrich has plenty of great ideas. A one-time liberal
who concedes in his book that he once might have been "in the tank" for Bill Clinton,
Klein says he is now a moderate -- but not, he insisted in the interview,
"some sort of creepy, covert conservative."