[Miss Marple]

Hmmmm. Poor Howell. This isn't going to go away, is it?

Pity.

[I still care]

LOL. I was going to kill myself but decided to write a book instead.

[Temple Drake]

oh, please.

[Scothia]

I'm sure he'll find a way to blame the President for it.

[AM2000]

Good for him. He messed up at his job at the NYT, but if he's got it in him to write a book that others may want to read, more power to him. I certainly won't begrudge him that.

[Howlin]

Get the hook.

[Bosco]

I wonder whose work Mr. Blair will plagiarize for his book...

Perhaps the publisher could also have a competition for literary fans - figure out whose work is contained in Blair's book and win a prize.

[freedomson]

And I didn't think this story could nauseate me any further.

[Dog Gone]

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative action hire, how come they didn't they catch me?"

Am I missing something here?

[ladyinred]

The excuses begin!
Before it is over he will most likely be awarded the Pulitzer for fiction!

[DeepInEnemyTerritory]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/915086/posts

[buffyt]

suicide would be the honorable thing to do

[mombonn]

NYT REPORTER: I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF . . .

But blaming it on race and substance abuse sounded more lucrative, and less painful.

What a creep.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It is still not too late for him to do "the honorable thing."

[GATOR NAVY]

[willyboyishere]

"Both racial preferences and racism played a role.....
I would argue that racism had much more of an impact."
----Those are the key sentences, and the central conceit
in this entire issue.On the one hand, there's an implicit admission that he was underqualified, and got to his position in the first place because he was black, and
cunning in his ability to play that for all it was worth,
barrelling through probably all kinds of suspicions over the years from the higher-ups.On the other hand, he finally has to lay the blame on that abstract "devil" of racism that stoked his
inherently doomed ambition to make it in "the white man's world". The fact that there are a number of credible black journalists who've never felt the need to make things up, already writing for "white" newspapers is an irony that is lost on this coke-head.
This pig-headedness reminds me of the black man on the D.C.
street's reaction to the Marion Barry incident, where Barry
was videotaped smoking crack with a hooker: "Well, hell, yeah, the white man made him crazy, they made him do it!!!"
If we could penetrate this kind of logic, we'd go a long way towards understanding the kind of monster we've created
with two full generations of PC excuse-making.

[pbear8]

I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF...

until I realized that I could make millions.

[George W. Bush]

He's writing a book to tell us the truth about all the lying he's done in print at the Times?

This will be epic.

[mass55th]

"I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF"

Don't let us hold you back. There's still plenty of time!!

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Personally, I think he should forget the book and go with his FIRST idea, To kill himself, and I hope many of his fellow Times comrades follow suit, It would certainly clean out the lower end of the gene pool.