17 નવેમ્બર, 2025

"I'm a stickler for staying in your lane. I think his lane is the Ezra-lane..."

"... and I don't see him crossing a line. I'm assuming the New York Times is cool with it."

Said Jill Abramson, former executive editor, of the NYT, quoted in "How Ezra Klein's power play is guiding Democrats" (Axios), which tells us that "Klein's columnist-turned-operative role is raising concerns inside the Times and the Democratic Party, people familiar with the matter tell Axios."

ADDED: If anyone ever tells me to stay in my lane, I'm going to say I am in my lane. My lane is The Althouse Lane. I encourage you all to do likewise. Abramson okayed this clever move and she's a stickler for staying in your lane.

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Beasts of England કહ્યું...

’Some Democratic officials advising potential presidential candidates are worried about Klein's influence with party elites at a time when the party is trying to win back working-class votes, having suffered from being cast as too elite and coastal.’

I’ve listened to a few of his podcasts and the assessment of too elite and coastal is fair. But, who do the Dems have that can speak to, or sincerely empathize with, middle America?

PM કહ્યું...

The Dems will lead into that left hook with Gavin as their pony.

Earnest Prole કહ્યું...

For those who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Abramson, a random youtube search with her name will serve up her astounding Upper-West-Side meets Valley-Girl meets Boomer-attempting-to-pass-as-Millennial vocal-fry stylings.

gilbar કહ્યું...

i don't understand?
he's not biased enough to be a NYTs writer anymore?
or what?
i thought they ALL were Democrat Party employees

Kevin કહ્યું...

columnist-turned-operative role

He makes no attempt to hide it.

Skeptical Voter કહ્યું...

I am all for the Ezra Kleins of this world steering the Democrat truck--off the end of the bridge and into the water.

gilbar કહ્યું...

.."But, who do the Dems have that can speak to, or sincerely empathize with, middle America?"

they have LOTS!
there's
There's Joe Manchin, from West Virginia..
Kristin Sinamax from Arizona..
Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii..
John Fetterman from Pennsylvania..

Heck! There's Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

There are a LOT of members of the Democrat Party that could speak to middle America..
I have NO IDEA why they don't use the ones i've mentioned

Kevin કહ્યું...

at a time when the party is trying to win back working-class votes

The progressive podcasting- and opinion-writing-classes see themselves separate from, and well-above, those lesser people they deem "working class".

These people do, however, look up to the shutting-down-the-government-class, the spending-trillions-without-accountability-class, the I'm-running-a-global-nonprofit-class, and the I'll-leave-my-Senate-seat-when-I'm-dead-class.

narciso કહ્યું...

How do we fool em again chapter 23

Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

There is no lane, there is no spoon. There is only...

Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

There are only people who will summon the will to rationalize what's coming. For a glimpse of what is coming, see the President of Mexico speech on the cartels.

narciso કહ્યું...

Sound and fury signifying nothing

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

If they're "raising concerns" why aren't "some" putting their names to it? Is Ezra so powerful, that only anonymous criticism is safe? LOL

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

Jill Abramson has a long track record of being dishonest and a a partisan hack. Remember her lies about Clarence Thomas?

Some are concerned about Abramson being treated as an authority figure whose opinion is worth knowing.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy કહ્યું...

Larry Summers was doing dating the right way. ~ Ezra Klein

Jim at કહ્યું...

columnist-turned-operative role

Maybe it would be easier if you told us which columnist isn't an operative for the Ds.

gadfly કહ્યું...

Lem:
Last week in Mexico City, President Sheinbaum told a crowd, members of her cabinet, military leaders, and local representatives from the state of Michoacán that, along with additional troops, the federal government will offer technology and $3 billion to combat the cartel.

Iman કહ્યું...

“Maybe it would be easier if you told us which columnist isn't an operative for the Ds.”

As my old Vietnam vet co-worker used to say, “Fuckin’ A Tweet Tweet!”

Beasts of England કહ્યું...

’…along with additional troops, the federal government will offer technology and $3 billion to combat the cartel.’

Basically a week’s revenue for the cartel. EBITDA and all that, but I think their margins are pretty decent.

narciso કહ્યું...

Journolister who pushed obama,

Humperdink કહ્યું...

After watching Ezra Klein speak for roughly 2 minutes, the phrase “power play” and the name Ezra Klein do not belong in the same sentence.

narciso કહ્યું...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-black-college-is-a-criminal-enterprise-ex-top-official-says-in-lawsuit

Aggie કહ્યું...

I know very little about either of these people, and feel unperturbed at any prospect of changing this condition.

narciso કહ્યું...

Abramson furthered the hoax against thomas

rehajm કહ્યું...

Politics with Democrats has become like a handicap golf tournament- the way your nanna can beat Nelly Korda. Thumb on the scale equalizing all the treasury money, msm bias…the gerrymandering. Now that the Supreme’s are poised to determine discriminating on the basis of race is racial discrimination media and pols seem so be desperately searching for a way to keep Dems in the game…somehow…

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

As if he hasn't always been an operative.

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

But, who do the Dems have that can speak to, or sincerely empathize with, middle America?

Well, there's that Maine oysterman with the Nazi tattoos who went to Hotchkiss...

narciso કહ્યું...

Did jill report any actual news or enable any

Mary Beth કહ્યું...

I would have expected a comment by a former NYT executive editor to be less cliched and slangy. Another false notion dispelled.

narciso કહ્યું...

No not at all

Yancey Ward કહ્યું...

LOL! Little Ezra Klein has been a Democratic apparatchik his entire adult life.

narciso કહ્યું...

https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1990500795847225778

narciso કહ્યું...

Actual news

Mike (MJB Wolf) કહ્યું...

Who’s pretending he had standards?

narciso કહ્યું...

Everybody in the corporate mesh

tommyesq કહ્યું...

One of the major problems with modern journalism - should be you report facts and important stories, and maybe there is some opinion on the editorial page, but now every two-bit hack 27 year old JSchool grad wants to set the country's agenda. Maybe they should all stay in their lanes.

J Severs કહ્યું...

re "I'm going to say I am in my lane. My lane is The Althouse Lane. " Excellent line, Professor, and I intend to use it for myself as needed.

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

So Ezra's advising the Democrat Party poached on the Jill Abramson lane? With all the Democrat hacks in the press, we're looking at a very crowded superhighway.

Kirk Parker કહ્યું...

tommyesq,

I forget which clever person I heard this from: "It used to be the news told you what happened, and left it up to you to decide what to think about it. Now they tell you what to think about it, and you up to you to decide if it actually happened."

tommyesq કહ્યું...

Kirk P, agreed, but you must also consider what they are not telling you about whatsoever.

gadfly કહ્યું...

Today, Kurt Schlichter wrote an opinion piece in PJ Media entitled "Time to Purge the GOP Backstabbers, Sissies, and Narcissists."

Nowhere in the writing do the words "backstabbers, sissies, or narcissists" appear. Trump, of course, can be linked to all these traits, and he is not named as purgeable.

Beasts of England કહ્યું...

’Well, there's that Maine oysterman with the Nazi tattoos who went to Hotchkiss...’

How could I forget! lol

narciso કહ્યું...

If they call it authentic its as fake as a three dollar bill

Mr. T. કહ્યું...

Of course this corrupt dumbass is a leftwing shill and hack. He invented JournOlist - the left wing misinformation racket that Klein set up to suppress news and criticism of Obama.

Then he moved to Vox and helped amplify Sabrina Erdely's defamatory Rolling Stone false rape hoax.

Lazarus કહ્યું...

Ezra's wife's book - "Give People Money" -- pretty much sums up the Democratic platform.

MayBee કહ્યું...

I still remember when Ezra wrote a column saying ObamaCare would save people $2,500 on their premiums, and Obama released a statement linking to Ezra’s column

Spoiler: it has not, in fact, reduced premiums by $2,5000

Mike (MJB Wolf) કહ્યું...

Abundansa!

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