Happy Hour Vid: Joe Klein Goes John Adams on Sarah Palin

Heather Horn 72 Views Apr 19, 2010
American history doesn't look too kindly on the most famous people to bandy about the word "sedition." Joe Klein didn't let that stop him. Here's a video that's been firing around the blogosphere today, in which the former Clintonite and current Time columnist says the rhetoric of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck is close to being seditious. In other words, it qualifies as "conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state."


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