29 December 2007...2:02 pm
Kristol: Nicht
William Kristol is quite beholden to Rupert Murdoch
According to the Huffington Post, as refracted through Editor & Publisher, Bill Kristol is going to be announced as the New York Times’ new “conservative” columnist. This will bring “balance” and undoubtedly show that the NYT is not the liberal media that the Blogosmear and the GOP* (* Greedy Old Pedophiles) claim it to be. Ah, the Doors of Deception™:
Kristol Ship* About to Sail at ‘NYT’? May Be Named New Op-Ed Columnist
By E&P Staff, Published: December 29, 2007 10:55 AM ETNEW YORK In a brief, unconfirmed report last night, The Huffington Post said it had learned that, “in a move bound to create controversy,” The New York Times will soon announce that conservative writer and editor William Kristol will become a weekly columnist next year.
The Time has no comment and no other evidence of this move has surfaced so far.
Kristol, editor of The Weeky Standard and a Fox News analyst, recently lost his column at Time magazine. The Times has been missing a regular second conservative voice on the op-ed page since the exit of libertarian-leaning John Tierney.
Criticism of the possible move has already surfaced across the liberal blogosphere, with suggestions that this would be a new low for the Times — hiring as one of its prime voices the well-connected pundit who was probably most influential of any writer in promoting the invasion of Iraq.
[* And you thought MY puns were bad. (Mr. Mojo Risin?)]
Steve Benen, at The Carpetbagger Report notes this, and I placed a comment, which, quote, “is awaiting moderation.” Benen:
… Standards and consequences be dammed, (sic) it’s a gig that seems to keep getting better.
For more on just how breathtakingly wrong Kristol has been about practically every policy matter of substance, consider Anonymous Liberal’s greatest-hits package published earlier this year, and ThinkProgress’ run-down of Kristol’s more recent “lies, distortions, and hawkish proposals.”
I can appreciate the notion of the NYT striving for some kind of amorphous ideological balance on its op-ed page, but there are far better choices than Kristol the Clown.
Being ofttimes immoderate in my moderation, and having wasted too much time getting the links in, I reproduce my Carpetbagger comment, without shame, here, as though I’d actually done something useful today:
22. On December 29th, 2007 at 2:54 pm, Hart Williams said: Your comment is awaiting moderation. So, let me get this straight: Bill “Dan Quayle’s Brain” Kristol, who’s owned, body and soul by Rupert Murdoch, and whose magazine, The Weekly Standard was financed by and is run at a huge loss BY Rupert Murdoch, the New York Times’ best friend in the world (especially now that Rupert’s bought the Wall Street Journal) is going to be given a slot IN the NYT?Rupert Murdoch, who also features the sleazy little schmuck on Faux Nooz™ all the time, since he owns the twisted little Kristol SOB anyway? (Bill’s father, Irving Kristol — the “B” in the “SOB” — is the founder of the neo-con movement).
I guess they didn’t have enough of Murdoch’s point of view in their pages? Or, perhaps, no representative columnists from NAMBLA were available?
Or perhaps they just would like the Chairman of the Project For A New American Century on their roster so that the next time Bush’s White House asks the NYT to spike a story that exposes egregious and impeachable offenses (like, say, the NSA wiretapping story, withheld by the Times prior to the 2004 election), they can use Kristol’s cel phone, to keep their phone logs clean?
Then again, the NYT seems, lately, to be shockingly cavalier as to whom they crawl into bed with . ( “[Judy] Miller was pounding mattresses for news, and none of her editors thought fit to call her on it.” — Steve Gilliard, 2004)
So, I suppose that another glorious chapter in the history of the latter-day NYT opens soon. Wonder when the magic underwear arrives?
