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[sisyphusshrugged]

the Times, on the Kristol hire, over here

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[gngrmyrsn.livejournal.com]

Oh God, is anything ever going to get any better ever!?

Sorry, J. Aren't there any better choices for the NY Times to make? Jerks. I guess this was the best they could do since my stupid local paper already has that Goldberg creep.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I actually read (news stories from) the Times online these days. They broke me about ten years ago, which kind of sucks, because I started when I was in elementary school.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Betcha we can hire someone worse than Brooks.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

They already had MoDo and Tierney, though.

I've said this before: the people who run the Times have a strong vested interest in making the point as strongly as possible that being an irrational hawk with a shitty track record doesn't mean you're not every bit as damn good as daddy the striking youthful air of prodigy that got you your job in the first place.

[sethg]

So this wasn't a "better to have him inside the tent pissing out" sort of calculation?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Junior Rosenthal doesn't seem to think so.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Falling upwards yay!

Maybe he can also declare the earth is flat and get hired on The View as well?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I suspect he might balk at claiming that nothing in human history predates christians, but then no-one ever went broke underestimating Kristol's venality.

Although goodness knows he's done his best for the publisher of the Weekly Standard

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The fact that Kristol hitched his waggon to Dan Quayle's star is indication enough of the quality of his intelligence.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

See, I suspect strongly that Quayle was the only candidate they could find who made Bush look like he had gravitas by comparison (and of course his antecedents are impeccable).

Kristol was grafted on to give Quayle gravitas.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That didn't work so well for Quayle. Kristol, though, keeps rising.

I do think that Quayle's run for the 2000 nomination was a genuine effort on his part. Whether people like little Billy Kristol (or Big Daddy Irving) were whispering in Danny Boy's ear in the interest of the Lord's Anointed Son, George III, I don't know.