How William Kristol earned a New York Times column (This Modern World)

[swag]

[jgraz]

1. jesus, how does that guy feed and dress himself?

[Botany]

2. Never has a man been more consistently wrong on so many things.

Kristol should be beaten with a rubber hose because of the amount of
death and destruction he is responsible for. Founding member of PNAC
Bill Kristol, what a piece of work.

[riverdeep]

3. Ralph Nader was supposed to hold a protest outside the NYT offices on Friday.

Protesting Kristol's hiring. Anyone hear anything about it?

[Metta]

4. Sadly, the NYT has upheld the actions of traitors for a long time.

This is just another reason that they've lost credibility.

[swag]

5. Judith Miller, Tom Friedman, Bobo Brooks,

John Tierney (now mercifully removed from the Op Ed page to the science section).

Maureen Dowd is usually just awful.

At least they've got Krugman.

[Stephanie]

6. He's placed at the Times to catapult the propaganda.

We're going to hit Iran, I have no doubt about it. And the Times has been asked to do its part.

[annabanana]

7. It really is remarkable, isn't it? There is NO LEGITIMATE

justification for this hire. None. Every single excuse they've put forth trying to make this move sound logical, desirable, reasonable or even just "not indefensible" has been laughably lame.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. I wish he would just tell us which investments to avoid.

So I could buy them and get rich.

[DLnyc]

9. Please protest the NYT by 1) not buying their paper and 2) writing to them

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/lettertoeditor.html

[Dudley_DUright]

10. I actually agree with Billyboy that "invading Iran is not a bad idea"...

...as it is actually a batshit fucking insane idea. Yup, just the kind of guy I want to read in the NYTimes. :sarcasm:

[SOS]

11. The Times wants war with Iran

But since the NIE, the editors would look too stupid pushing for war in the editorial column.
So they hire Kristol to do their dirty work on the op-ed side.