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Audacity of Truth
NYT hires William Kristol as once-a-week columnist
… and the far left, predictably, are losing it. Publius Pundit has the details on the official NYT announcement of the Weekly Standard editor’s hiring, as well as links to the foaming at the mouth frenzy on display this weekend by The Usual Suspects, who are wondering if the NYT will “balance” Kristol with another liberal columnist.
Yeah, because we all know that the NYT columnist page is tilted far too much to the conservative side. Of course to the left, just one right-leaning writer out of seven or eight means a page must be “out of balance” – to the right (case in point).
The NYT editorial page editor, Andy Rosenthal, played the far left’s “fears” like a fiddle in his defense of the NYT’s decision:
Rosenthal told Politico shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand “this weird fear of opposing views.”
“The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing” Rosenthal added. “How intolerant is that?”
Gosh, he’s just now figuring out the left’s touting the virtue of their “tolerance” is all a big farce?
Captain Ed quips:
I have to admit that I find the controversy refreshing. It’s good to see the progressives admit that a half of Bill Kristol outweighs the five liberal commentators at the Gray Lady. It also shows, as Rosenthal notes, the rhetorical intolerance that many progressives display on a fairly regular basis. When they cancel subscriptions to the one national newspaper most amenable to their politics simply because it allows one competing opinion to appear, that says something about their insecurity.
Yep. However, what with all the little “threats” to cancel subscriptions coming from the leftosphere, and knowing how desperate the NYT is to keep and increase their readership, I’m taking bets on how long it takes for them to decide it’s in the “best interests” of their readership to “offset” Kristol by adding yet another lefty columnist to their stable.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News, where I am helping guestblog for John Hawkins on Sundays.
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ST proclaims:
We-el, they’ll need to replace Maureen Dowd pretty soon. She’s becoming unreadable. I don’t even try any more–it’s self-parody now. And I try to read opinions from all over the “political spectrum.”
I made the over/under on how long they’d keep Times Select at nine months, and it took them two years to abandon it, so I’ll be more conservative this time and make the over/under at 18 months. Sound good, ST?
Becoming?
I’m surprised that the Times does just print BDS under every editorial she writes.
Considering how few lefties actually quote the Times, I do not think they have to worry about cancelled subscriptions. Now, if Alternet, Think Progress, Pravda, or Al Jazeera did this, yeah, they would have to worry about lost readers.
Heaven forbid the necessity to listening to the opposing view. This is why Fox is so vilified – for so many years the alphabets told us what was news, and then along came alternative voice not caring DNC talking points. Democrat candidates snear at FOX and refuse to debate on the network. And their argument – they don’t want to legitimize the opposing view. It seems their actions do more than legitimize it- they verify it.
The cognitive dissonance must be deafening.
Wow – I was in a hurry – talk about typos
Let me edit:
Heaven forbid the necessity of listening to the opposing view. This is why Fox is so vilified – for so many years the alphabets told us what was news, and then along came alternative voice not carrying DNC talking points. Democrat candidates snear at FOX and refuse to debate on the network. And their argument – they don’t want to legitimize the opposing view. It seems their actions do more than legitimize it- they verify it.
When The Philadelphia Inquirer, a paper with a liberal editorial slant, added former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) to its coven of columnists, you should have heard the howl from the moonbats in this area.
They always have the option of not reading his columns, but that isn’t good enough; they don’;t want anybody else to be able to read them, either.
Never make the mistake of thinking that our friends on the left believe in freedom of speech.
What Dana didn’t mention was that the Inky took the precaution of simultaneously adding one more far left moonbat columnist to “balance” Santorum – and that still wasn’t good enough for the local moonbats. The mere idea that a dissenting voice might be heard set them off into a foaming-at-the-mouth rage.
That’s one odd similarity between our domestic far-left moonbats and the islamic extremists who take to the streets over any so-called insult. They both have a strict, dogmatic view of life, and no tolerance for anything outside of it.
“Freedom of Speech.”
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Okay, dummies, one last time. Freedom of speech means any lefty, anywhere, in any venue, can say whatever he or she wants. It absolutely does not apply to righties at all, anywhere, any time.
Further, if any righty criticizes any lefty for any reason at all whatsoever, it’s censorship and must be eliminated by shouting it down and denying the evil hate filled righty a forum.
Got it now, neanderthal right wing thugs?
Anyway, let’s be cynical for just a moment and examine what I think it really at work here: the NYT sees the inevitable coming, they’re going to crater, and they are laying the groundwork for the excuse fest afterwards. Why did they fail? Obviously because they gave far too much space to those right wing points of view. New business plan, without Will and Kristol and Brooks, huge infusion of money from George Soros, and it’s NYT Mk II, now with twice the intolerance of diverse opinion!