Posted on 01/03/2008 1:32:07 PM PST by mojito
Here is just a tiny, tiny sample of the reaction on the Huffington Post to the announcement that William Kristol will be writing a weekly column in the New York Times:
“William ‘the Bloody’ Kristol is a beady eyed warmonger.”
“Worthless suck up Kristol should be cleaning toilets in public restrooms for his GOP ‘friends.’”
“I will never, ever, buy another issue of the newspaper, I will never again be a subscriber to your newspaper and I will do my level best to avoid any purchases from any NY Times advertiser.”
“If the New York Times is going to hire a liar and a racist like Bill Kristol then they might as well hire Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, and Ari Fleischer.”
“Kristol is an arrogant warmongering prick. I can’t stand the sight of him.”
“Listening to Kristol, that war mongering crater face, is worse than listening to Bush, Cheney, and Richard Pearle all rolled up in one . . . I hate that decision and I will do everything I can to discredit this decision until they finally flush him down the toilet like the turd he is.”
And so it went, on this and dozens of other left-of-center sites. Sputtering fury. Vicious name-calling. Denunciations of the Times for this unspeakable act. Threats to cancel subscriptions and otherwise exact revenge.
For conservatives, long accustomed to self-serving liberal pieties about tolerance, the orgy of outrage at having to face an alien point of view was wonderful to behold, and no one enjoyed it more than the man at the storm’s center. As Kristol put it to Politico.com, with the obvious relish of the skinny guy on the beach who gets the girl in the fourth panel, “I was flattered watching blogosphere heads explode.”
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Best of the Web has had some good stuff on this the past few days.
“you already knew what liberals are like”
Like... they understand that their ideology cannot stand when an opposing viewpoint is “allowed”?
Man, they’d blow a gasket talking about a real conservative.
Kristol can afford to write a weekly column for the NYT. He gets read via TWS, so the lack of visability isn’t a problem....(chuckle)
This is better then Scrappleface.
“If the New York Times is going to hire a liar and a racist like Bill Kristol then they might as well hire Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, and Ari Fleischer.”
What a great idea! rofl
I hope they are serious about not buying The Times,but they were all leaving for Canada after the last election and they’re still here.
What a bunch of whining crybabies.
He’s closer to them than he is to me, but they are crazy.
I might buy a copy now and then if they did that.
Welcome, Mr. Kristol, to the land of Jim Crow.
Wow! If Bush = Hitler, Kristol is >= Hitler? Someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Hilarious article. I love what this action by NYT implicitly says about the state of their rag.
Well, they don’t have a conservative with Bill.
They ought to be happy.
A lesson in tolerance from our betters on the Left.
RYMB?
"The Nation". Now there's a good middle of the road place to look for a measured evaluation of any political issue.
How desperate must they be?
This from the liberals who claim tolerance of all above all. I have tried to point out to my lefty friends that Fox News presents both sides politics. I can’t watch the alphabets as they are only hard left. But that’s what lefties want and that’s why they think they should win every political race. The papers, nightly news, etc. that they believe is all left all the time.
Bill Kristol isn’t very conservative. I’d love to see Ann Coulter in the NYT! Now that might make that rag worth buying!
Seems like its eat crow times at the Times. They’d like to do it as liberally as possible.
I’d love to see their justification of the claim that Kristol is racist.
“Man, they’d blow a gasket talking about a real conservative”
Problem is Bill Krystol is not a conservative. He’s the same as Mccain.
Problem is Bill Krystol is not a conservative. He’s the same as Mccain.
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Eggsactly. The libs would faint if they really realized what a Hunter was all about and if they had to face him.
Post some more of these. Nothing I enjoy more than a thoroughly pisssed off liberal.
It’s interesting that liberal commentary has begun to notice the dysfunctional rage of the left and wants to separate itself from it. Unlike global warming, BDS has reached a tipping point.
Like the zoo thing, I think we should sling shot the crazies and shoot them as they come over the moat.
The NY Slimes, on its deathbed, is trying to survive by hiring somebody who is on its right!
Most major dailies carry two or three conservative columnists. Is Kristol the first conservative the NYT ever hired? Which conservative WOULD be tolerable to these critics?
Were they to do that, the NYT would pull out of its death spiral.
We mustn't have that.
Actually, the comments in the article are no different than what I have read here on FR with regard to clearly Liberal leaning columnists.
Granted, such comments stand a better chance of being pulled from this website...but the pendulum swings both ways.
Funny. Nice piece of work.
As I’ve said elsewhere, the liberal MSM have dug themselves into a hole. The NY Times basically has no subscribers left but convinced leftists. Everyone else has been driven away.
So what are they to do? If they move right, and hire a few conservatives, they will enfuriate their current subscribers, but they are unlikely to gain many new ones. It’s still a lousy rag, worse every year. They used to have a lot of good wine experts, science experts, art and music experts, and so on. But almost all of those are gone too.
There’s hardly anything worth reading in the whole bloody newspaper. The style section is laughable. The Arts section is childish. The Book Review is so biased it’s pathetic—even if they are trying to “balance” it.
No one of sense will want to subscribe. So the best they can expect is to drive away the moonbats as well. How many people are going to pony up the price for a subscription so they can read Bill Kristol?
I’d rather go on-line and read an article like this.
True, but we don't actively portray ourselves to be the party of the tolerant. As usual, it's the hypocrisy of the libs that's so much fun to watch.
Conservatives don’t make a fetish of being tolerant; conservatives make a fetish of being right.
(tongue slightly - but only slightly - in cheek).
Zionist, warmongering racist against arabs/palastenians is what you would likely hear.
Desperation ping of interest.
“If the New York Times is going to hire a liar and a racist like Bill Kristol then they might as well hire Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, and Ari Fleischer.”Wow! I second the motion! If they do that, I'll subscribe!
I can’t imagine why the NY Times would do something like this. The conservatives ain’t gonna start reading that newspaper again, and now they’ve p!ssed off a bunch of their liberal readers, too.
As I’ve said elsewhere, the liberal MSM have dug themselves into a hole. The NY Times basically has no subscribers left but convinced leftists. Everyone else has been driven away.So what are they to do? If they move right, and hire a few conservatives, they will enfuriate their current subscribers
You said it. Pinch picking up Kristol created a lot of hate and discontent among remaining NYT subscribers. This typical angry left wing nutter declares his formerly beloved darling Old Gray Lady who could do no wrong an Old Gray Nag while publicly divorcing her for cheating on him with William Kristol.
They don't know from "real" conservative since, for them, the term only refers to anybody to their right. The left's panic over America's continuing disillusionment with their century-long agenda has no limits. It's like the narcissist husband's inability to fathom why his wife wants a divorce.
Ari Fleischer? Who the hell wastes energy hating Ari Fleischer?
So what makes him different from anyone else?
I can't think of a national newspaper that is 100% conservative as the NYT is leftist. And you're wrong that liberals are disallowed here. If someone is polite and can make a case, they are welcome. In almost every example, liberals who do post here sign up, make some screeching noises or are hysterical, then never respond.
He went and got a subscription to The Nation.
I never stated that Liberals were not allowed on FR.
I was speaking of comments by 'conservative' Freepers when referring to the likes of Helen Thomas, Maureen Dowd and their ilk.
I said that 20 years ago.
Some funny letters at that site. I was going to quote what the first said about Kristol, but I’m not sure it would pass the moderators.
And some of them are so earnest, too. Those are almost funnier than the angry ones.
It’s not the lack of conservative opinions that makes lib rags like the Times awful. It’s their willful distortion or outright omission of important news events that condemns them. Printing the facts in their daily stories by their reporters would mean a lot more than a few conservative writers. Although it can’t hurt to have a few non-libs on the staff.
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