Update: Klein Tries to Clarify ‘Confusing’ Constitution Comments
- Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:00pm by
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Apparently we all misunderstood what Washington Post writer Ezra Klein was trying to say on MSNBC Thursday morning as he derided Republicans’ planned reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives as a “gimmick.”
After Klein was criticized for saying that the Constitution was “confusing” because it was written more than 100 years ago, Klein took to his Washington Post blog to once again condemn the GOP’s proposal as “toxic” and to clarify what he meant in his Thursday morning MSNBC appearance:
The initial interpretation was that I’d said the Constitution is too complicated to understand because it was written a long time ago, and then, as the day went on, that I’d said the document itself is nonbinding. I went back and watched the clip — or at least the part someone clipped and sent me, which is above — and thought I was clear enough. But when a lot of people misunderstand you at once, the fault is usually yours. So if I was unclear: Yes, the Constitution is binding. No, it’s not clear which interpretation of the Constitution the Supreme Court will declare binding at any given moment. And no, reading the document on the floor of the House will not make the country more like you want it to be, unless your problem with the country is that you thought the Constitution should be read aloud on the floor of the House more frequently. In which case, well, you’re in luck!
Here’s the original video:
What do you think? Did Klein clarify anything?
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Comments (241)
Slobaphobe
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:36pmRead between the lines people! Ezra is saying in his nice elitist condescending way that we the less intelligent unwashed huddled masses don’t grasp the content because it is “confusing”.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 6:18amI saw it exactly that way. He’s just like Bill Maher. I LOVE the idea of reading
Report Post »the Constitution on the house floor. LOVE IT LOVE IT!
spendthrift
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:33pmThis Idiot has a Boss, email him:
TWPCoReply@washpost.com
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:32pmGood try Erza………..just not good enuff.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:32pmMaybe he doesn’t understand it because our ancestors spoke English, not the PC language of the moment.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:31pmOur constitution is simple and easy to understand.
Report Post »It’s short and to the point.
Perhaps that’s his problem with it.
After all, if he likes the 2000 page monstrosities the Progressives have been passing lately, then maybe he can’t handle pithiness.
Banter
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:31pmKeep unmasking yourselves, progressives, you are doing the hard work.
Report Post »francesp44
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:38pmI guess the Constitution is a document in motion, very moving if you ever read it. Let’s see, born in 1984! Brave new world then, eh. What spawn is this with so much mouth and little brains. It is an easy read, written for our consumption and enduring guide to freedom. Not ambiguous, not unclear and not written by 1984 newborns now claiming to be grown up. Read it along side the communist manifesto or any other socialist declaration of philosophical values and it is even more clear. Maybe it takes and American with America’s interest at heart to really get it
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:30pmOur founding fathers had such great vision of what is happening to America today. May you forward this website to all of you liberal friends and spread the truth: America is great, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not to be told what to do, but have the freedom to do what you believe in to do.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:28pmMaybe we should all be a little more understanding here. He was born in 1984 so he has been out of high school for better than TEN WHOLE YEARS. He is just sharing his vast knowledge with us commoners.
Jeeze… I gotta lay off the adult beverages! I’m talking crazy.
Report Post »MARYLANDRON
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:27pmTell me what is confusing about the 10th amendment?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
That seems pretty easy to understand….many of the Government agencies in existence today are not authorized by the Constitution. Where does it say that Health Care and Education are the responsibility of the United States as opposed to the states or to the people.
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:27pmI’m 60, I started learning about the constitution in the 8th grade, that is when we had real teachers and a real school. You are why
Report Post »I am scared, very scared, you don’t understand the constitution and never will. Come out and see me and I will educate you or shot you. Lock and Loaded and ready for Idiots like you
momsense
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:36pmThat makes two of us at least–Same MO
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:27pmOoops, Ms. Mouth, I mean Katie, you have so ashamed America’s Media. The way that you played favorites to Obama and Progressives is apalling. If I ever get you in my sights…and under my crosshairs, .smootch babe..take one for the Giffer.
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:25pmJust one more fool that has to go! Be prepaired
Report Post »uncleherbert
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:23pmSaying everyone has a different interperintation is not clarifing anything. We want our God given individual rights formost.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:20pmHere ezra…..lemme be clear! Youre still an ideologically ra-tarded douchebag !
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:32pmWhat do you really think? Stop holding back.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:19pmMax from Lawton….Well one thing is perfectly clear…..this is a typical lefty, minimizing American law and culture. I seem to be leaning toward thinking that there is not a REAL patriot among the lib left. There won’t be any change in their thinking until we put their noses into the steaming pile of dung they have foisted on the people. and rub, rub rub.
Report Post »I don’t believe, for one minute that he is able to see the truth of what is going on…a sycophant who will spout what he thinks his handlers want to hear. That is all.
chuchu12
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:19pmMr Klein is a perfect example of how our educational system is failing although we continue to throw money at it. We need education reform and to hold teachers and the unions they belong to accountable for the defective products they produce such as my Klein.
Christi/Anyone 2012
Report Post »Liberty_Forever
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:00pmI agree with you 100%.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:01amOur educational system is run by communist – Called teacher unions.
90% of the college professors are commies – I had one actually show his card in classs
Throw on top of that 85% of MSM is “leftist”.
Stand ready
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:17pmKlein… like Obama thinks that if he keeps talking us “uneducated middle Americans” will understand his elite message…..like Obama in many, many speeches saying lots of words, but never explaining the Obamacare bill…… They don’t understand themselves, so how can they explain anything they say? Do the words come off the top of their heads with no deep thought given to the words? Me thinks so!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:17pmWhen you find yourself in a hole the very first thing you should do is: STOP DIGGING! And in this case he should be praying for someone else do do or say something even dumber to take the heat elsewhere.
Bottom line is that he needs to shut up.
Report Post »Tightie Rightie
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:35pmKlein is thinking where’s Biden when I NEED him.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:12pmMr Klein is a little punk who thinks that all of his years of experience has made him wiser then everyone else. He has stepped in it, he knows it, and he is not smart enough to come up with a good enough excuse to stop making himself look like a putz.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:18pmHe doesn’t just look like a putz; he is a putz. (I am trying very hard to be polite to him.)
Report Post »momsense
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:34pmWonderful insightful analysis.!
Report Post »crowbar
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:12pm“And no, reading the document on the floor of the House will not make the country more like you want it to be,… ”
Not the way I want it to be, but the the way it should be. Stupid Commie………..
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:12pmBack peddle back peddle back peddle, taksie backsies! I don’t need to hear clarification for this rubbish, matter of fact, I am more confused now about what he is trying to say. Get your crap straight before you get on tv and speak to the 5 people watching msnbc. Besides, people at the white house do need a refresher on that Binding Document known as the CONSTITUTION. Jack wagon. If you can wrap your brain around a few sentences that are over “100” years old, then that shows you just how far we’ve gone away from it…
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:15pmIf you can’t** sorry, I had to clarify. What a jack wagon I am.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:49pmThe initial interpretation was that I’d said the Constitution is too complicated to understand because it was written a long time ago,
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Its not an INTERPRETATION you moron,
Report Post »its exactly what YOU SAID.
trolltrainer
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:53pmlol, 100 years ago to be exact!
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:12pmLiberalism is a mental disorder….
MrObvious
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:20pmditto
Report Post »dawgPound
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:56pmNo, the study said conservatism is a mental disorder. Go re-read the study. Thanks for trying, though.
Steverino
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:35amDAWGPOUND-
Report Post »Please DO NOT go away!
Continue to enlighten all of us with your scathingly brilliant, yet concise commentary.
I bow before your intellectual acuity.
Steve
RoBoTech
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 4:38amdawgpoo, I was waiting for some dumbass Socialist to bring up that “study”
Report Post »Figures ir would pull you ouyt.
That study you hug so close was 93 people. Let me say that again, 93 people.
3 were politicians, 90 were students.
And that study was paid for by Colin Firth to get a humorous take on the issue.
I was going to call you out on being a straight up liar, but after reading some of your other posts, I have come to realize that 93 people really IS your take on a cross section of 310 Million people.
Now, I just feel sorry for you. You live in a small Wonderland, my friend.
Bit as you said, nice try, but no cigar.
Oh another reason I realize that you are a small pathetic little child is that unofficial blog spelling/grammar/typing police you have taken upon yourself. A typical move by a insecure little boy that stands in a corner, waving his hands over his head and screaming “look at me, look at me”.
It must really suck to be you, little boy.
Pathetic.
mdlwoods
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 10:12amDawg (lord, you can’t even spell the word DOG correctly), since when does 80 percent of the brains who are conservative become the “abnormal” brain over the 20 percent who are liberal???????? That was just about the most stupid thing study I have ever heard of! Besides, there are studies out there that show there is an abnormaility in the brains of liberals. First, liberals lack the one thing in our brains that God gave us over animals: COMMON SENSE. Animals lack the ability to reason, they act only on instinct or follow the group. Liberals are definitely unable to reason, thing for themselves, and ALWAYS follow the leader! Example: the old Liberal mantra, even after it was disproven, was continued to be used: BUSH LIED…BUSH LIED…BUSH LIED…BUSH LIED. Even though it was proven that all intelligence from all over the world pointed to the same conclusion, that SoDamnedInsane had weapons of mass distruction and that CONGRESS and President Bush relied on that intelligence, the mantra from the left was still: BUSH LIED. Completely idiotic and should have been totally embarrassing to you libs except that you lack the intelligence to know an embarrassing situation when you see one! IMPEACH!
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:33pmDawg is a media matters troll. Please don’t feed it. Replies only encourage him.
Report Post »pma_guy
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:10pmI stand by my original comment…ezra, you’re in de-klein.
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:06pmMr Klein good try but the only person misunderstanding anything here is YOU.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:13pmHow true…the hole gets deeper and deeper!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:19pmNo, it’s not clear which interpretation of the Constitution the Supreme Court will declare binding at any given moment.
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Translation :
I don’t know how J-LO and KD Lang will opine on the issues before them.
Report Post »But I will believe and defend whatever they say about the Constitution.
A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:24pmEzra Klein said:
“No, it’s not clear which interpretation of the Constitution the Supreme Court will declare binding at any given moment.”
Like I said before, since the Supreme Court takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, the Supreme Court is beholden to the Constitution, not the other way around. As such, one need only appeal to logic, language, context and the intent of the Founders, in order to interpret the Constitution.
The idea that the Supreme Court can reinterpret the Constitution to mean something other than was intended by the writers is counter-intuitive. Why take an oath, if you can simply redefine the terms?
Unalienable rights means that theh Supreme Court may not define them out of existence. Rights come from God, not from governments or the Supreme Court.
Report Post »tolyadmac
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:29pmI wish he hadnt clarified…i feel dumber after reading that…wish I had that time I wasted back
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:34pmThe more he talks the dumber he sounds. At this point it goes like this; insert foot into mouth, gnaw off toes.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:40pmWe understand Ezra perfectly- he’s a socialist.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:45pmHe said clearly that he believes that the Consitution is not binding on anything. If you go back to the words of the document and you don’t read into it words or ideas that are not there then it is clear. If you want to read into it things that are not there then it becomes unclear as with any document.
http://www.jospehfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »Crewbot
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:45pmThe pin-head can’t worm his way out of this one even though being a worm himself gives him an advantage. The only reason the constitution confuses Klein is not because it’s over 100, it’s because his I.Q. is substantially lower than 100. Does the moron actually believe the constitution was written in 1910 and we only had 13 states then? He’s obviously a public high-school graduate. Or at least spent 7 or 8 years trying to be.
So I guess, according to him, any part of the constitution 100 years or older should be dismissed. Sounds to me like he wants the 13th Amendment repealed so as to bring back slavery.
Report Post »WHAT A RACIST!
ron the veteran
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:03pmmr klein maybe if you tried reading it yourself youd find it really enlightning. the constitution isnt the problem its whos in office thats the problem. they all raised their right hand and swore to defend it. but the forget that just as soon as the hand goes down. its time to start putting them in jail for violating it.
Report Post »Redd
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:24pmklein clarified just how big an idiot he is. Thanks for the clarification.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:27pmDear Dummy Klein
Report Post »Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals — that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government — that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen’s protection _against_ the government.
Meyvn
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 7:57amI see no evidence of brain power on Ezra’s behalf. This just shows he probably couldn’t even understand what his own grandparents and great grandparents tried to teach him. What an embarrassment this dude really is to intelligentsia.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:03pmthis guy is an empty suit.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:46pmIs he shaving yet?
Report Post »dawgPound
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 11:55pmEzra Klein has more brain power in his little finger than all of Glenn Beckkks followers combined.
Steverino
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:30amDAWGPOUND-
Report Post »Please DO NOT go away!
Continue to enlighten all of us with your scathingly brilliant, yet concise commentary.
I bow before your intellectual acuity.
Steve
butler180
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:34amAlso is clueless as to when the Constitution was written and/or when was the last time we had thirteen states. 223/219 years ago respectively.
Report Post »I’ll bet Glenn Beck knows
tradexpertbuysell
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:07amReading it this year on the floor please because they didn’t read it on the floor last year and look where that got us. Besides since most in Congress can’t read anything like bills or laws then they will need help by having someone reading to them.
Sorry you’re illerate progressive congressmen. I suggest early retirement so you can make time to take and pass remedial reading classes necessary to qualify for the job of a US Senator or Rep.
As for you Klein, the Constitution is more than 100 years old or maybe the year 1910 was a freudian slip seeing as that is about when the progressive movement 1st started to gain momentum to undermine the Constitution. In which case you have a 45 caliber bullet hole for a brain and should find a new job on a windy street corner directing traffic.
Do you also strut sitting down? That must be hell on your hemeroids! Maybe another area of your anatomy that you can whistle out of on busy street corners!
Report Post »ozz
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:28amFunny, I have no problems understanding a document written in plain English and this guy does? The real issue is the progressive ******** trying to change the definition of “is”
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:35amWell his statement of clarification was as Vanilla as you could get.
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:36amWell, I’m an 828 attendee, a long time Glenn Beck listener, and I’d like to observe, Mr. Klein (and the poster whose handle resembles a repository for disease-ridden canines), that your ideological perspective resembles in dimensionality, the topological construct invoked by your name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle). To wit: you only possess an exterior and have no internal content whatsoever.
:)
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:46amOh… and one other thing. Since when is it in any sense inappropriate to review a document you have sworn a solemn oath to uphold. Sworn, I might add, before God, Angles, and men. If I was in that situation, I would not only want it read, I would post its entirety on the walls of my office, so I would never forget my duty to God, men, and this nation.
Report Post »dawgPound
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 3:22am@STEVESD Do not take this the wrong way, but are you retarded? Who writes like that? C’mon man. Did someone get a thesaurus for Xmas? Hmmmm? You can hide behind your 5 dollar words and somewhat obvious pyschosis, but that doesn’t shange the fact that YOUR opinion is greatly diminished by the fact that you are a glenn beck follower. Not only do you watch his jacked up conspiracy theory tv show, but you went to Washington to see the snake oil salesman in person. Jeez, if you tell me you traveled more than 30 minutes to get there, i swear i will laugh myself silly. Get a hobby. Go ride your bike. Play with your dolls, i don’t care, but stop getting all crazied up by that shock jock you worship. Beck spends hours and hours scaring people like you, and then, as if by magic, he refers you to one of his sponsors who has a remedy for whatever beck was just fearmongering about. SURPRISE Beck’s making money off of you fools. But you are so worked up into a frenzy of social/economic/religious paranoia, that you can’t see it. And you never will, so i will let you be you and i’ll be me. But you will still be retarded.
Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:09amYet it’s amazing that in another 100 years, Ezra Klein will be dead and gone, and the Constitution will still be around.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 6:58amdawgPound, that much brainpower and he is confused over a four-page document?
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 8:00amI suppose it’d be easier to “understand” our six-page Constitution than our 2,700-page monstrosity of a “Health Care” bill…
And reading the Constitution is just a gimmick until our political representatives start honoring the Constitution and legislating laws based on the Constitution.
We don’t want the talk; we want the walk!
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 8:05amonce words are spoken by-“educated” liberals-the last words they speak.
Report Post »“THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT”
RATS HATE THE SUNLIGHT-
ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 8:52am@dawgpound: lil ezra is a fookin fraud, 28 yr old stupid marxist dumb azz caulk sucker and its hilarious he spews propaganda and racism for wash post, bwahahahahahahahahahaha
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 8:57amDAWGPOUND
Report Post »Please read the archives on Ezra Klein at News Busters and Big Journalism. After that, explain to us how wise he is and and then justify to us why he should be drawing a paycheck for any “journalistic” endeavors. There are plenty of other examples of Klein’s ignorance to draw from but these two sites will give you a good start.
Perhaps you will be less inclined to make a fool of yourself and a nuisance to others in the future.
mdlwoods
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 10:01amI am soo sorry, Dogpoo, that you find it difficult to read and understand Steve’s comment. Perhaps you should quit your day job and return to elementary school to learn to read. Also, I find it very very offensive that you continue to use words such as “******” over and over again. Not only is it offensive to anyone who may be mentally challenged (for real) but it tends to show that you lack the mental capacity to use any other word which may be more appropriate for the situation. Translation: you are too stupid to come up with a different word! Also, you continually bash Glenn Beck, call him a conspiracy theorist, a liar. Where are your facts to back up your contention that Glenn Beck has misled anyone? (silence…crickets singing). What? You don’t have any? Then why don’t you keep your ignorant (oh! there’s an alternative word!) opinions (because that’s all they are) to yourself. Until you can show some proof, some facts that Glenn Beck is a liar or is misleading anyone, just shutup because the rest of us are tired of reading your crap!
Report Post »SLEUTH
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 10:47amare you at it again DAWGPOUND ? I thought i smelled something here. still leaving a pile. the GRAMMAR QUEEN still correcting grammar.find something else to do then to criticizes others. post your comments on the subject and leave us alone.
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:19amNo, guys. Leave him alone. Don’t you see? Every word that comes out of his mouth proves our point. Besides, honestly? I’m done trying to convince the Kool-Aid drinkers. The rising waters will silence them soon enough, and things will be peaceful as we sail away in the Ark. Let’s all just be prepared and ignore the nay-sayers, ignorant tho they may be.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:25amThey don’t teach rational simplicity in the journalism indoctrination station. I was taken back by a fact that in 1940 the average education (government) level was 8th grade and it was these people that built our nation. It is now up to 12 years of indoctrination and we see the progress our nation has enjoyed. Spend ourselves into prosperity and trash liberty and freedom. Trade carbon credits because we don’t know how to make anything but the elites in government still need your cash. Send our productive jobs overseas while we consume and use in an unsustainable way. We are in trouble because of these over credentialed jack wagons like Greenspan and Bernanke. The government needs a 75% haircut or we will bankrupt ourselves in the coming years. This Ezra is just one of the useful idiots that Lenin and Stalin loved so much. Little Ezra does not even know he is advocating against himself and coming generations for the benifit of who? Oppressive Government
Report Post »Run4Cover
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:41amThat is an insult to empty suits everywhere. Any wonder MSNBC,WAPO, et al are losing readers, viewers by the score?
Report Post »SLEUTH
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:44amwell said BECKOFILE, well said.
Report Post »slickmeister
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:56amWhy does this moron’s opinion matter to anyone in the first place?
Report Post »Dearoldad
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:12pmHow about clarifying that it was written over “200” years ago (as opposed to “100”) and maybe be more specific if he such a brain trust, like it was written around 234 years ago, give or take a month or two? Another lib idiot trying to cover his trail of excrement!
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:37pmThere seems be a lot of that kind in D.C.(empty suits) My comment would be to the Kleiner at the Republicans are reading the Document -so Democrats/Libertarians/ and Republicans alike cannot say they don‘t know what’s in it because they never read/heard it.There is confusion and seeming several different interpretations of the Constitution because our public schools no longer teach the US Constitution as Joseph Story did without metaphysical refinements or tests of logical skill.If the newsies like Klein would insist on the mere politicians confining their understanding of the Constitution to the meaning of the terms used -as they were understood when it was adopted-there would be no confusion.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:54pmTalk about timing. Here it is New Years Eve… it means there’s still time to nominate Klein for “Moron of the Year” for 2010.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 12:55pmdawgPound,
Ezra, is that you again?
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:04pmBeckofile,
“We are in trouble because of these over credentialed jack wagons like Greenspan and Bernanke”
Look, I have no love for either of these men, but I’m curious why you blame them and not the politicians that gave those two men their power?
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:30pmDawgpound is a troll. Please don’t feed it. Trolls feed on reactions. Ignore it and it will go away.
Report Post »Opinion Man
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 1:43pmHe’s empty minded alright, but the sad thing about his comments is that he truly believes what he first said as well as there are those in our government who feel the same including our president and his newly appointed judges.
Report Post »ebryan
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 2:15pmAlthough he was inartful in his original comments, I knew exactly what Klein was saying. His clarification was not necessary for me, but it did clarify it for everyone else. Except for the fact that the Constitution is over 200 years old, and much of it is not really subject to interpretation, much of it is. That is precisely why we have a Supreme Court of the United States and why so many of their opinions on Constitutional questions are 5-4. Nobody can dispute the intellect of all of the United States Supreme Court Justices and even they frequently disagree about the meaning of the Constitution. The Republicans are just engaging in publicity stunts. In the past they used to wrap themselves in the flag and say they were more patriotic than the rest of us. Now they are wrapping themselves in the Constitution and saying they are more in tune with the founding fathers.
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 2:20pmReading it out loud is a noble gesture but won’t change anything.
Report Post »gmhahn
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 3:27pmDowgpound , all I can say is: Glenn Beck has more Sense and Brain in his ASS, than you have in your head /
Report Post »mrdbcooper
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:02pmdawgPound
Report Post »is a troll
waggie
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:07pmHe clarified that he’s an idiot
Report Post »waggie
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:18pmWow Dawgpound all that anger you’re carrying around! Why don’t you go live in Greece and take it out over there? We won’t miss you, don’t send a card. Haven‘t you figured out yet that we’re all entitled to our own ideas and opinions? I’m proud to be a Beck watcher, although I’m a follower of only Jesus Christ. You need to get some help for your anger issues, just a thought.
Report Post »NYSTREETKID
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:19pmdawgpound or was it dawgpoop,sorry about that…. am I so dumd, I couldn’t tell between the smell which was which. sorry again, just happened?
Report Post »rochrealtor
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 6:04pmyou better start reading boy!!! your lost
Report Post »CarolinaBlue2
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 6:06pmDear DOGPOUND, ZZZzzzzzz ….. ThankYouVeryMuch …..
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rochrealtor
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 6:06pmhow did we get so far away from the truth. Should we spank him
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 9:30pmShakespeare wrote his plays long ago and we don’t have a problem understanding them now do we.. well maybe this guy would since he can’t UNDERSTAND the ENGLISH language apparently..
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:26pm@dbcooper
Report Post »Correct, he is a Troll and don’t feed the trolls. I find it remarkable that the lib trolls are coming in gangs to the Blaze. I think they are monitoring the Blaze more than the lib blogs they come from.
They are running scared.
1776Federalist
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:12pmEveryone just ignore DoggyPooByThePound. If he wants to roll around in a pile of manure and pretend that it is rose petals, let him. Beck provides his sources, so he doesn’t need to be defended to anyone that tries to slander him. Besides, DoggyPoo is most likely a troll who lives in his mommy’s basement, blogging away. Klein is a sad commentary on the state of journalistic integrity that exists today. He attacks anything that isn’t progressive mantra, and does it in a very inept fashion.
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