Reporting from the latest conclave hosted by the Aspen Institute, New York mag’s Michael Wolff beholds the gathering of liberal overachievers (including media stars Judy Woodruff, Jonathan Alter, and Joe Klein) and says the “psychic heart” of it all was a feisty Man from Hope:

“Clinton kept referring to the media as (contrary to Kinsley’s view) the ’supine’ media, pointing out that when Bush insulted Helen Thomas (who, by asking a rough question in the infamous prewar press conference had, Clinton said, ‘committed the sin of journalism’), no ‘young journalists’ stood up and walked out.The media, the supine media, was going to have to ‘go to the meat locker and take out its brains and critical skills.’”

“Everybody seemed to love this. Clinton was not just the beloved former president, but he had become some sort of sassy oracle.”