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12/29 Is Kristol a hypocrite or the NYT selling out? Or both? Or visa versa?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30kristol.html?hp
\_ Or maybe they both recognize the value of including opposition
voices. -dans
\_ I find it amusing that you would call the NYT a sellout for
printing a conservative in the oped pages. What next? Having the
regular article writers doing well researched and unbiased articles?
And then pigs flying? When do the flaming frogs fall from the sky?
\_ I wouldn't call Kristol a conservative. I would call him
a delusional fuckhead. Keep him in the Weekly Standard
where he belongs, he should quit polluting other places with
his crap.
\_ Wow you sure made your point. Well spoken!
\_ The NYT already has regular columists that are conservatives,
but none that have been so consistently wrong about everthing
as Kristol has been. And I didn't say that the NYT was a
sellout, I asked what other people thought. I think it is
mighty strange that they are publishing someone who has been
such a vocal and adamant critic. Even stranger that he would
want to run a column in a paper that he claims to despise.
\_ What's so strange about publishing a vocal and adamant critic?
This is precsely who intelligent and informed debate is
supposed to work. Even a brutal critic may make valid and
relevant points, and that's worth considering. -dans
\_ Bill Kristol does not make "valid and relevant points".
He's a wildly dishonest pundit who cofounded and ran a
Murdoch mouthpiece, and cofounded and ran PNAC. He lies
in his arguments, in his premises, and in his journalism.
He has abdicated his place in what can be considered
intelligent and informed debate. As have you.
\_ You're off topic. That has nothing to do with flaming
frogs falling from the sky.
\_ E_ROBERT_BORK? Cool! -dans
\_ No. Flaming frogs from the sky.
\_ Yes, E_ROBERT_BORK. -dans
\_ Sigh... no. You're not getting it. Go ahead
and post another bork and let's just be done
with it.
\_ Do you even know who Robert Bork is? -dans
\_ Yes. Do you? Do you know anything about
flaming frogs from the sky?
\_ We are talking about Bill Kristol here. He does not
contribute to intelligent and informed debate about
anything.
\_ Again, you have helped educate us all with facts,
details, and hard core specifics. Appreciated.
\_ I kind of liked him in "When Harry Met Sally". I
never realized he was so into politics.
\_ Sure a brutal critic can make valid points. From the
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| www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30kristol.html?hp William Kristol, one of the nation's leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday. Mr Kristol will write a weekly column for The Times beginning Jan. He is editor and co-founder of The Weekly Standard, an influential conservative political magazine, and appears regularly on Fox News Sunday and the Fox News Channel. He was a columnist for Time magazine until that relationship was severed this month. In 2006, he said that the government should consider prosecuting The Times for disclosing a secret government program to track international banking transactions. In a 2003 column on the turmoil within The Times that led to the downfall of the top two editors, he wrote that it was not "a first-rate newspaper of record," adding, "The Times is irredeemable." In the mid-1990s, Mr Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, an influential policy study group. A native of New York City, he holds a bachelor's degree and a doctorate from Harvard. His father is Irving Kristol, one of the founding intellectual forces behind modern conservatism. Next Article in Business (15 of 27) Donate to the Neediest Cases today! Tips To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry. |