Whether the NYT made a mistake in hiring Bill Kristol or NOT, he should just burn in Hell.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

NYT Public Editor: Hiring Kristol "A Mistake"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | January 14, 2008 07:56 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/14/nyt-public-editor-hiring_n_81326.html



When we broke the news that Bill Kristol would be joining the editorial pages of the New York TImes as a regular contributor, we called it "a move bound to create controversy." After a mistake-laden first effort, now the New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has delivered his verdict: " Sulzberger and Rosenthal made a mistake." Hoyt's reasoning:

On Fox News Sunday on June 25, 2006, Kristol said, "I think the attorney general has an absolute obligation to consider prosecution" of The New York Times for publishing an article that revealed a classified government program to sift the international banking transactions of thousands of Americans in a search for terrorists.


Publication of the article was controversial -- my predecessor as public editor first supported it and then changed his mind -- but Kristol's leap to prosecution smacked of intimidation and disregard for both the First Amendment and the role of a free press in monitoring a government that has a long history of throwing the cloak of national security and classification over its activities. This is not a person I would have rewarded with a regular spot in front of arguably the most elite audience in the nation.

[Faygo Kid]

1. Did you see his "column" today? Actually criticizes someone else for not admitting mistakes.

I refuse to link to it. It's easy enough to find. Darkest hire since Judith Miller. Plus, he's a lousy writer.

I will stick with Frank Rich, thank you, and I hope Frank lets this despicable turd have it and soon.

[90-percent]

2. Hell

Hell is too good for this pinhead.

He should be Janet Reno's sex slave for the rest of his life. I think that would be his hell.

-90% Jimmy

[hisownpetard]

3. He is a cretin with tunnel vision (even though I did like him in "Analyze This."

[Kucinich4America]

4. Everyone who has ever signed a PNAC document will burn in Hell

And I believe Kristol has signed all of them :evilgrin: