The newspaper of record is about to hire Bill Kristol to regularly ooze political poison on its op-ed page..
Is it too much to ask that the Times at least try to hire people who know what they’re talking about? Here, I set Maureen Dowd to the side, as her columns are all really about herself. Kristol has a proven track record of being wrong almost all the time. For this he is rewarded with near constant exposure in the mass media. With the exception of Steven Colbert, no one has ever called him on his dismal record. Now he is given the most coveted journalistic real estate in the land.
I would be willing to bet that if you stacked my predictions or observations against his, you would find that I have been right more often than he. And I only do this part time, sandwiched in between too many hours of honest work and too few hours of sleep. I realize that I am merely the son of a working stiff, instead of the son of a famous neocon who was also always wrong, but fair is fair. We people who are right most of the time deserve equal time. No, I take that back. We deserve more than equal time. Krugman and Herbert are not enough. The Times needs me, and I could use the cash.
Seriously, the Times appears to be a bit confused in its journalistic obligations. There is no obligation to balance truth with error. I have no objection to presenting a wide range of viewpoints, but is there any justification for giving a forum to a warmonger who is always, consistently, invariably, totally, absolutely, downright, flat, out-and-out, perfectly, plainly, thoroughly, unequivocally, unqualifiedly, unrelievedly, unreservedly wrong?
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