Democratic Underground - Let's skip the coy talk and cute games. Let's take a quick peek at a typical DLC voice:

Marshall Wittman is a professional political operative who was worked for a wide variety of organizations and politicians ... Wittman has .. worked as:

* Chief lobbyist for the Christian Coalition ..;<2>
* A campaign worker for Linda Chavez's Republican bid for a Maryland seat in the U.S. Senate;<3>
* A senior fellow for the Democratic Leadership Council, where he wrote for the BullMoose blog (http://bullmooseblogger.blogspot.com/);<4>
* Spokesman for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) from 2002 to 2004.<5>

On the theory it was just by some inexplicable fluke that the DLC took up a former "Christian" Coalition shill and spokesperson for vicious wingnut Chavez and rightist McCain, let's spin the wheel again.

clicky clicky clicky joe klein

Yes, I'm afraid it's that Joe Klein, the rightwing hack at Time Mag. The DLC has posted a number of his pieces on their site. And what views does Joe Klein represent? Well, let's look at him:

In a May 2 washingtonpost.com online chat, Time magazine senior writer and columnist Joe Klein denied he had ever said that "the left hates America," in response to a chat participant who denounced what the participant described as Klein's " 'the Left hates America' rhetoric." But -- contrary to Klein's denial -- as Media Matters for America noted, in an April 14 entry on the Huffington Post weblog, Klein stated that the "left wing" of the Democratic Party has a "hate America tendency." http://mediamatters.org/items/200605040006

In a column titled "The Second Commandment Republicans" in the March 15 edition of Time, columnist Joe Klein asserted that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and former Massachusetts Gov.Mitt Romney (R) are "moderate candidates who live like liberals," citing the fact that they "have had nine marriages among them: Giuliani three, Gingrich three, McCain two and Romney one" as his only evidence. The leading Democratic candidates for president -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) -- have each been married once. http://mediamatters.org/items/200703190004

Ya know, I'm beginnin to think I've looked the DLC over enuf to know what's goin on over there ...

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