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!

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.

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.

What strikes me is that the left don’t want other people to be able to read those columns; what other explanation could there be to protesting the inclusion of two conservative writers?

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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.

The cognitive dissonance must be deafening.

Liberals are deathly scared of a conservative voice in the MSM…
Not sure if you have heard, but conservative writer and editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, is joining the NY Times weekly column.
Of course, the libs have lost it. From c…

We-el, they’ll need to replace Maureen Dowd pretty soon. She’s becoming unreadable.

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.

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.

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?