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A good pundit

Typically pundits from the "left" on the blathering talk show circuit tend to be uninformed, wimpy, and or centrists-in-sheeps clothing. Blogger Ezra Klein seems to be a cut above. Here's hoping he's the first in a wave of a new generation of pundits. Now we just have to get the blathering talk show hosts to actually have them on the programs.

Transcript was found on Digby, and here are Ezra's own thoughts on his performance.

Then they started discussing Gonzales and US Attorneys:


Matthews: What did he do wrong?

Klein: aside from the firing of the prosecutors?

Hanratty: that wasn't wrong

Klein: Well, there you go

Matthews: what did he do wrong? what crime did he commit?

Klein: I'm not going to talk about what crime he committed. I'm no a lawyer. But what he did wrong was fire prosecutors for political reasons. I thin we can agree that's an ethical violation.

Hanratty: It's not illegal

Matthews: Do you believe US Attorney's are hired because they're pals and they deesrve a little political favor or do you think they hire them because they're the best lawyer in town?

Klein: I think that whatever reason you hire them, you can't fire them mid-term for political reasons.

Hanratty: Yes you absolutely can fire someone mid-term for political reasons. It's not against the law.

Klein: That is a wonderful way to run a government

Hanratty: (angry, eye rolling) How old are you and how naive are you that you honestly think that this town isn't built on patronage?

Klein: How cynical are you that you believe you should support that political patronage and excuse anything they do?

Hanratty: Give me a break. That has nothing to do with supporting it..

Klein: You think Scooter Libby should pay no price, that prosecutors should get fired. Is this how we're doing it now? This is sad. How far we've fallen.

By fnord12 | August 10, 2007, 11:57 AM | Liberal Outrage