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Be sure and mention Kristol as the reason.

anyone that calls themselves Neo Con is the scum of the earth!

BYE BYE.

It will take an Obama to wake America up. To guide us out of this mess. The right won’t listen to anyone else with any sense.

Does the Times actually believe, I doubt they do much thinking anymore, people are going to pay even devaluated dollars to read what it is evident he is going to say. He is notorious for his repetion of, this time I will get it right mantra, all we need is another war.

As the years have wore on, I have experienced Kristol as being a consistently bigoted ideologue just as fierce as Dubya. Facts and rationality are irrelevant to him to both. CaptainMantastic says we can benefit from his argument in the marketplace of ideas. I can only ask how. I thought the idea was to elevate the discussion not to seek a lowest common denominator.

He refuses to argue with facts or use reason. Kristol believes in his ideology and sees his mission to push institutions and this country toward his ideology. Pat Robertson and his ilk do that, so why doesn’t the NYT hire those demagogs as well.

His past and proven skills belie his honesty and integrity to be a NYT columnist. They do speak admirability of his capacity to be a mouth piece for a bigoted and ideological paper The Weekly Standard. So, NYT please post all the lies and wrong-headed statements after each column he writes as a disclaimer. I do not understand why any one wants to read him. Why couldn’t they just let him write an occasional editorial with his record attached. It is horrific. What a bummer!!!!

I for one am fed up — and intend on giving up the paper in favor of the blogs, wires (where a lot of their news seems to come from these days), and local NY news: the New York Daily News. Enough is enough.

I have come to the point where whenever a troll posts off thread or justs posts some really stupid crap I hit the abuse button on every post they make on that thread. I would like to see a system where fellow posters could rate the trool tripe and ban the poster post haste.”
Comment by Saint Augustine — December 29, 2007 @ 6:46 pm

I’ve been calling for such a system for a long time. I have been ignored by ThinkProgress, and by many of the so-called “progressive” posters in here.

I hope your pleas are heard, Saint Augustine!

Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 29, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

This would make a reasonable explanation for the hiring of Kristol, if the NYT were truly a “liberal” paper, which it is not.

I’ve thought for a long time that Kristol is a very effective face of neocon loonery. Giving his ideas wide exposure can’t help but convince reasonable people of the bankruptcy of the neocon agenda.

The NY Times needs to rescind their offer to Kristol.

Don’t worry, be happy. It was a typo. They offered the job to Billy Crystal. Which makes eminent sense.

Cheers,

So give him sumptin’ to whine about … flag him.

Cheers,

It might make sense if they had chosen a right-leaning individual with a proven track record of policy insight and/or the ability to recognize and tell the truth. It’s one thing to have well-considered opinions that differ from the liberal perspective, but Kristol is regarded as an idiot even by thinking people on the right. His biggest claim to fame is his uncanny ability to be 100% wrong on any topic he addresses. He lies and unlike some others on the right, he actually knows he’s lying, yet he has no shame about it. He has zero credibility as a pundit and less than zero credibility as a journalist. There is no justifiable reason for the NY Times to give him space. Damn! Now I’m going to have to cancel my subscription.

will he actually be working as a “journalist” and not an editorial writer? or both?

and if kristol really feels this way about the NYT, he should not have taken the job.

I think you and dixie blood misunderstood. The NY Times, and the editorial policies thereof, have zero effect on the forming of my opinions. I recognize them as a valuable source of information, without accepting them as a source of values; though I’m fully cognizant of their complicity in the Iraq “war”. They don’t “speak to me” or reflect my opinions. And, my two local papers do. The NY Times could hire “The Great Satan” and it wouldn’t change my opinion.

That being said, I object to Bloody Bill having any forum. He’s profoundly dangerous and offensive as heck. Luckily, I don’t know a single person who would be swayed by his opinions, or the op/ed page of the NY Times. I am quite capable of sifting through real news, which may include stories from the NY Times (Reuters and McClatchy are favorites.) and forming my own opinions.

And, you can take your opinion, about the relevance of my comments, and shove it all the way up with a red-hot poker.

(Captain Breeze Between The Ears)