I don't know if the super-smart Mickey Kaus has a concealed-carry permit, but he sure lets CNN, Howie Kurtz, and Jon Klein have it with both barrels in Slate:
"Kleinenfreude! Harry Shearer says 'The Situation Room,' CNN president Jon Klein's afternoon masterpiece, is watchable only for those devotees of train wrecks who used to love that mid-day talk-show on CNN -- the place Bobbi Batista went to die -- that smooshed together email, phone calls, and live guests in the CNN Center in front of an audience that looked more like hostages....
"The ratings suck too....but should present trends continue, I am not worried about Klein. His whole strategy--leading with his lip, playing to the respectable media-crit claque by trashing his own people, giving dozens of interviews and speeches in which he makes a grand show of saying nothing--seems designed not to help his network but to make sure that by the time he definitively fails at CNN and has to leave he's enough of a big-deal TV network name that he can get a good job somewhere else! ... P.S.: Don't worry: No doubt Klein employee Howie Kurtz will eviscerate Klein in WaPo!Once he's safely out the door..."
