As reported by media critic Eric Alterman, Time magazine columnist and senior writer Joe Klein declared at an April 11 event that Democrats will not succeed in upcoming elections "if their message is that they hate America — which is what has been the message of the liberal wing of the party for the past twenty years." Klein's reported comments, however, represent not only the continuation of a pattern in his own writing, but in the writing of Time's stable of opinion writers — including syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and blogger Andrew Sullivan — who regularly attack "liberals" and Democrats.