An Elephant Flies at The New York Times
An elephant flies at the New York Times. Bill Kristol has been hired by the New York Times as an op-ed columnist in 2008. Yes, that Bill Kristol. Yes, that New York Times. The Grey Lady has become the idiot that Bill Kristol is!
As Anonymous Liberal writes, "All of you aspiring pundits out there take note. The key to reaching the pinnacle of your profession is, apparently, to be 1) catastrophically wrong about everything, 2) utterly unwilling to acknowledge error, 3) willing to repeatedly lie and mislead your readers, and 4) completely batshit crazy."
Kristol will be working for a newspaper he said was not first rate and should be prosecuted.
Billy Boy, recently "separated" from Time, is a true Bushite cheerleader, a Faux Noise personality, and editor of the Weekly Standard, one of Rupert Murdoch's right wing, reactionary noise machines in print form.
Katha Pollitt at The Nation makes this suggestion to The New York Times: "I'm sure we'll hear a lot about the need for balance at the paper -- funny how the Wall Street Journal doesn't feel the need to have even one resident liberal, but fine, let's have balance. Let's have a true leftist on the oped page--someone as far to the left as Kristol is to the right. Noam Chomsky, anyone? (and why does he seem just totally out of bounds but Kristol does not?) Barbara Ehrenreich? Naomi Klein? Susan Faludi? Gary Younge? me?
"Why do I think those phone calls will not be coming any time soon?"
Here is the NYTimes new columnist, always wrong, pompous ass Kristol's inappropriate idea of humor about the children of struggling families and Bush's veto of SCHIP: "First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea. I'm happy that the President's willing to do something bad for the kids."
This certainly puts to rest the old saw of The New York Times being a "liberal" newspaper. Take note right wing and faux moderate chatterers in the media.
After all, just like Bill Kristol, the NYT publisher and the paper's other officials genuflect to Dubya, as Ray McGovern writes in his article in Consortium News, "Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons," in a section titled, "Goebbels Would Be Proud,"
"The Times had learned of this well before the election in 2004 and acquiesced to White House entreaties to suppress the damaging information.
"In late fall 2005 when Times correspondent James Risen’s book, “State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,” revealing the warrantless eavesdropping was being printed, Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., recognized that he could procrastinate no longer.
"It would simply be too embarrassing to have Risen’s book on the street, with Sulzberger and his associates pretending that this explosive eavesdropping story did not fit Adolph Ochs’s trademark criterion: All The News That’s Fit To Print.
"(The Times’ own ombudsman, Public Editor Byron Calame, branded the newspaper’s explanation for the long delay in publishing this story “woefully inadequate.”)
"When Sulzberger told his friends in the White House that he could no longer hold off on publishing in the newspaper, he was summoned to the Oval Office for a counseling session with the president on Dec. 5, 2005. Bush tried in vain to talk him out of putting the story in the Times."
As Anonymous Liberal writes, "All of you aspiring pundits out there take note. The key to reaching the pinnacle of your profession is, apparently, to be 1) catastrophically wrong about everything, 2) utterly unwilling to acknowledge error, 3) willing to repeatedly lie and mislead your readers, and 4) completely batshit crazy."
Kristol will be working for a newspaper he said was not first rate and should be prosecuted.
Billy Boy, recently "separated" from Time, is a true Bushite cheerleader, a Faux Noise personality, and editor of the Weekly Standard, one of Rupert Murdoch's right wing, reactionary noise machines in print form.
Katha Pollitt at The Nation makes this suggestion to The New York Times: "I'm sure we'll hear a lot about the need for balance at the paper -- funny how the Wall Street Journal doesn't feel the need to have even one resident liberal, but fine, let's have balance. Let's have a true leftist on the oped page--someone as far to the left as Kristol is to the right. Noam Chomsky, anyone? (and why does he seem just totally out of bounds but Kristol does not?) Barbara Ehrenreich? Naomi Klein? Susan Faludi? Gary Younge? me?
"Why do I think those phone calls will not be coming any time soon?"
Here is the NYTimes new columnist, always wrong, pompous ass Kristol's inappropriate idea of humor about the children of struggling families and Bush's veto of SCHIP: "First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea. I'm happy that the President's willing to do something bad for the kids."
This certainly puts to rest the old saw of The New York Times being a "liberal" newspaper. Take note right wing and faux moderate chatterers in the media.
After all, just like Bill Kristol, the NYT publisher and the paper's other officials genuflect to Dubya, as Ray McGovern writes in his article in Consortium News, "Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons," in a section titled, "Goebbels Would Be Proud,"
"It has been two years since topNew York Times officials decided to let the rest of us in on the fact that the George W. Bush administration had been eavesdropping on American citizens without the court warrants required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.
"The Times had learned of this well before the election in 2004 and acquiesced to White House entreaties to suppress the damaging information.
"In late fall 2005 when Times correspondent James Risen’s book, “State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,” revealing the warrantless eavesdropping was being printed, Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., recognized that he could procrastinate no longer.
"It would simply be too embarrassing to have Risen’s book on the street, with Sulzberger and his associates pretending that this explosive eavesdropping story did not fit Adolph Ochs’s trademark criterion: All The News That’s Fit To Print.
"(The Times’ own ombudsman, Public Editor Byron Calame, branded the newspaper’s explanation for the long delay in publishing this story “woefully inadequate.”)
"When Sulzberger told his friends in the White House that he could no longer hold off on publishing in the newspaper, he was summoned to the Oval Office for a counseling session with the president on Dec. 5, 2005. Bush tried in vain to talk him out of putting the story in the Times."
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