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The Sacking of Bill Kristol
The Daily Beast ^
| Scott Horton
Posted on 01/26/2009 12:09:11 PM PST by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad
Let me get this straight. The
Times is worried about factual accuracy and credibility!?
Since when?
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:25:41 PM PST
by
CaptRon
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: lewisglad
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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:26:06 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: lewisglad
Never been a big fan of Kristol anyway....he’s aiiiighttt.
Nor am I a fan of the Times.
To: lewisglad
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..
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:27:27 PM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: lewisglad
Kristols writing wasnt compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasnt 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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:27:57 PM PST
by
x
To: lewisglad
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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:28:16 PM PST
by
Islander7
(LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
To: lewisglad
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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:28:56 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: lewisglad
Good for Bill Kristol.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:29:49 PM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: LucyT; STARWISE; Calpernia; BP2; FreeManN; Frantzie; little jeremiah
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:30:07 PM PST
by
hoosiermama
(Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
To: bert
The main reason is that the Old Gray Whore is broke and doesnt want a conservative voice taking funds that could be paid to a moonbat she cant 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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:30:43 PM PST
by
oust the louse
(This Country now has a smelly BO problem.....)
To: lewisglad
Best to get out before the checks start bouncing.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:32:32 PM PST
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: lewisglad
>”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...
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:33:10 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: lewisglad
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?
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:35:15 PM PST
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: Mojave
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...
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:36:02 PM PST
by
joejm65
To: lewisglad
“sloppiness and uneven quality”
That’s really funny, coming from the Times.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:36:19 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(Don't lose sight of your conservative principles.)
To: oldbrowser; CaptRon
...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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:36:42 PM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: lewisglad
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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:38:09 PM PST
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(Q: How many Obamas does it take to change a light bulb? A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!)
To: maggief
“Speaking truth to power” has suddenly gone out of vogue.
To: lewisglad
Only The New York Times could make Bill Kristol look like a martyr. Sheesh!
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:40:07 PM PST
by
Wolfstar
(Some day when we meet up yonder, we'll stroll hand in hand again, in a land that knows no parting)
To: joejm65
“Ill 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.
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posted on
01/26/2009 12:41:36 PM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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