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Who should replace Bill Kristol?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal wouldn’t comment to Politico—or his own paper—as to whether he’ll add another conservative voice to the stable of Dowd, Rich, and Krugman. ...
Kristol Done at the Times
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
To the shock of no one who has been paying any attention, Bill Kristol is a NYT columnist no longer.
And while some will say that it was because of his ideology, I say nay: it was because he columns weren’t any good (note some recent ruminations by me on the subject here). Indeed, Kristol’s ideology is what got him hired, but in reading his stuff I can say with certainty it was simply not very well written.
As Scott Horton of the Daily Beast notes:
The problems that emerged were more fundamental. Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion ...
Roger Ailes — He's Lying As Hard As He Can Who to replace William "Bill" Kristol on the Times' op-ed page? John Podhoretz, natch. The Times has traditions to uphold. Kristol claims writing for the Times was "a lot of work." Well, of course it is.
Tuesday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
Right Wing Prof's Clown Awards for 2008. Nice job, Prof. You had lots of material from which to chose.
Why shrinks are allowed to insult you. If you want to be told that you're perfect, don't talk to one.
Dems full of denial and hypocrisy on the stimulus package. We have been sufficiently frightened by the MSM, and now we are about to get mugged.
Before radar
Hut For Sale, and other unusual real estate offerings
Those innocent Gitmo grads
Muggers advise on how to deal with muggers. Hmmm.
Is dissent still patriotic? ...
Bill Kristol's Op-Ed Column: The New York Times's Gain is the Washington Post's Loss
Hit & Run —
... While the Times' Andrew Rosenthal says the decision for Kristol to leave the paper was mutual, Scott Horton at the Daily Beast ...
The Sharply Partisan Times
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] The New York Times today runs a brief story on the end of Bill Kristol s weekly column in the paper, which includes the following paragraph: Mr. Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard magazine and a regular contributor to Fox News, is known for sharply partisan commentary. The newspaper s decision to sign him to a one-year contract as a columnist drew intense criticism, particularly from the political left, as did many of the columns he wrote. I wonder if the reporter could point to one example of sharply partisan commentary in Kristol s Times column or for that ...
Replacing Kristol: NYT Won't Guarantee Another Conservative
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... as Krikorian pointed out above, it would make the most sense to replace Kristol with another leading conservative pundit. It goes without saying that "making sense" and providing balance are not the hallmarks of the NYT. The most distressing name being bandied about, for those few remaining conservative readers of the NYT, was suggested by NRO's media blogger, Greg Pollowitz, who also reported on the firing of Bill Kristol. From the New York Times reporting on itself: “It was mutual agreement,” Andrew ...
global warming causes national paper to eat itself
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... or hopefully they'll just let him go hang w/bill kristol as a permanent position.
