I think for once Joe Klein basically gets it right here. For years the media hasn´t been confronted with angry Democrats, to our shame, and so when they find one they think that they are "leftists" or "extreme liberals."
I´always a bit amused when people accuse sites like Media Whores Online , or Move On, or this one as being "leftist." MWO have always been unabashed Clinton Democrats. Move On began to support a censure resolution to get the country past impeachment, hardly the agenda of radical leftists.
Clinton Democrats are not and have never been "leftists," unless you´ve redefined leftist, as Howie "I am not a whore shut up Shut Up SHUT UP SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP" Kurtz has, as anything to the left of Jonah Goldberg.
Some of us have decided that when the other side is playing Calvinball, it´s time to stop trying to play by the rules. When the other side has successfully managed to bully the media into moving the suppose center of debate into the editorial page of the Washington Times, it´s time to stop playing your compromise position as your opening hand.
Dean´s gotten support simply because he´s speaking out. I´m really not entirely sure what the media expects an opposition to do, though I suspect that if they had their way all Democratic candidates would behave as SNL parodied Joe Lieberman in the VP debate with Dick Cheney (agreeing with everything Cheney said).
