Joe Klein: skin as thin as crepe paper

I heard Joe Klein just compare Dick Cheney going on Rush Limbaugh's radio show and legitimizing him to top Democrats "going out to Vegas to kiss the ring of Daily Kos bloggers."

Joe Klein's probably upset that he wasn't invited.

Apparently, claiming that Abu Ghraib was just kids blowing off steam, and claiming a man with Parkinson's disease is just acting is the same as writing a blog.

Well, it is, when you're Joe Klein, and you're a little baby who doesn't think he should ever have to hear criticism through his virgin ears. I expect that Klein's been on Daily Kos exactly 0 times, and that he'd even admit that. Nevertheless, absent any experience, he equates it with Rush Limbaugh.

... UPDATE: I think what's behind this is the tendency to judge everything along these narrow, polarizing lines, with a false equivalence that ends up comparing two entities that are completely different, thereby allowing tools like Joe Klein to fancy himself above the fray, like a bipartisan deity walking the Earth like a colossus.