The Sacking of Bill Kristol

The Daily Beast ^ | Scott Horton

[CaptRon]

Let me get this straight. The Times is worried about factual accuracy and credibility!?

Since when?

[Cicero]

“But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”

And of course Mo Dowd, Bob Herbert, and Paul Krugman are all models of fact checking and elegant style.

No, being a token conservative on the NYT Op-Ed page means walking a tightrope, and I guess Kristol wasn't very good at it. He managed to offend conservatives AND liberals alike.

[Vanbasten]

Never been a big fan of Kristol anyway....he’s aiiiighttt.

Nor am I a fan of the Times.

[BallyBill]

He has now lowered himself to threatening Matt Damon to a Debate.

Just how does one debate a block of wood without looking like an idiot?

..Damon being the wood of course..

[x]

Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it.

Ouch!

It's hard to believe that Rich, or Herbert, or Krugman are all that accurate.

Probably the real reason for dumping Kristol is this: however useful his neocon connections may have been in the Bush years, they don't count for much in the Obama era.

The paper doesn't feel the need to have a second neocon columnist when the Democrats are in charge.

But it is nice to see somebody taking a swing at Kristol for accuracy and exactness, since Kristol was pretty bitchy and condescending talking about the students he used to teach.

[Islander7]

Mr. Bill Kristol, paging Mr. Bill Kristol....please report to the showers for de-lousing.

I can only imagine have difficult it would be to associate the vile morons at the NYT.

[Brett66]

I guess it’s time for the NYT to sack everyone of its journalists, fortunately their lousy financial state is going to aid them greatly in that endeavor.

[The_Victor]

Good for Bill Kristol.

[hoosiermama]

FYI

[oust the louse]

The main reason is that the Old Gray Whore is broke and doesn’t want a conservative voice taking funds that could be paid to a moonbat she can’t afford to pay...

WILL the Main stream Media get bailed out?...I wonder if there isn’t a provision in the stimulus pkg for them....disguised as contraceptive relief.

[PLMerite]

Best to get out before the checks start bouncing.

[OneWingedShark]

>”the political firmament in Washington”

That phrase deserves a WTF!! I honestly DO NOT want Heaven to be like DC.... one would think that the never-ending political circle jerks would be more like Hell...

[steve-b]

The New York Times' decision not to renew Bill Kristol's opinion column was because of the conservative writer's sloppiness and uneven quality

They only just now noticed that?

[joejm65]

I’ll bet if Kristol had sex with Sweet Caroline like Pinch did, none of this would be happening. Kristol will get published somewhere else. Better to be forced off the ship rather than sink with it...

[popdonnelly]

“sloppiness and uneven quality”

That’s really funny, coming from the Times.

[T-Bird45]

...raising some concern among the guardians of The Times’ credibility.

Glad I wasn't the only one to have a big guffaw over that line...talk about an oxymoron: NYT and credibility in the same sentence. Add to it the concept of "guardians of... credibility" and you've got a real knee-slapper.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Aw, fer pete’s sake. One might make an argument that Kristol’s facts were occasionally unfactual, but to say he was an “uneven” (i.e., lousy) writer is just snide. And patently untrue.

[BigBobber]

“Speaking truth to power” has suddenly gone out of vogue.

[Wolfstar]

Only The New York Times could make Bill Kristol look like a martyr. Sheesh!

[Hacklehead]

“I’ll bet if Kristol had sex with Sweet Caroline like Pinch did, none of this would be happening.”

Right. He would be at the clinic getting penicillin shots.