New York Times Confirms Hiring Bill Kristol As Op-Ed Columnist

William Kristol, one of the nation's leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday.

Mr. Kristol will write a weekly column for The Times beginning Jan. 7, the newspaper said. He is editor and co-founder of The Weekly Standard, an influential conservative political magazine, and appears regularly on Fox News Sunday and the Fox News Channel. He was a columnist for Time magazine until that relationship was severed this month.

Keep reading here.

Comments

[frost12]

Kristol is a MASS MURDERER;
THAT MOST CERTAINLY QUALIFIES HIM FOR THE JOB OF OB-ED FOR THE TIMES (NO PUN INTENDED!)

[frost12]

Well, well, well!
The cat is finally out of the bag.
The "venerated" N.Y. Times is finally exposed as the "puppet"
of the NeoCon Corporate Machine.
How has this "rag" gotten away with it all these years; I wouldn't desecrate my pet's litter box with this "paper propaganda."

[Gloomy]

Kristol is not an independent voice. He is tied to the opinions of the subscribers to the Weekly Standard. Any deviation from the Bush-Chaney line will bring mass defections from the true believers and the demise of the magazine. Much the same must be said about Rich Lowery of the National Review. Bill Buckley could say whatever came into his head because he was the founding father of the movement. Lowery cannot, however often he tilts his head at an ironic angle and purses his lips as if to say I do not believe what I am about to say.

[charliemc]

Years ago my buddy's dog took a big stinking shit right in the middle of my buddy's office. My buddy led his dog into his office, closed the door, and banged his hands against the wall for awhile, pretending to beat the dog. We all listened and laughed. The door opened, the dog came out, appropriately chastened, and my buddy took a big steak out of the fridge and gave it to his dog.

Lesson learned: Take a mongoid shit in master's office, and you get to watch master jump around and acts like an idiot. Then master gives you a steak.

Kristol has it even better than my buddy's dog. He shits all over us -- he lies, he cheerleads the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and the destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, and, after all that, he gets a gig at the Times, where he can gleefully cause trouble among "well informed liberals". And Kristol doesn't even have to wipe that shit eating rictus off his face. We should all have it so good!

One of the reasons the Times is doing this is that it loves the controversy. More papers to sell. The only sane response to this utter nonsense is to stop reading the Times. Paper of record my ass.

[envilliven]

So now the Times has the smarmy botox smiling
Mr Kristol to editorialize in it's opinion
section. This over educated moron has been so wrong on so many issues. It's difficult to know where to begin pointing out times where
his warped ideology has manifested itself among
those who are in a position to decide policy
and have been avid followers of his diatribes.
It is detramental for our government to have people in power base their decision on what
they have heard from Mr Kristol.

[FigaroJones]

Kristol? Bye-bye Times. I don't read stenographic rags to PNAC.

[sbennett53]

Regarding Kristol/NYT, I think everybody needs to take a moment here. Rather than assuming capitulation to the right-wing, why not give some credit to the NYT for attempting to hasten its demise? Consider that by printing Kristol's maniacal dissertations for all the world to see, the NYT has provided him with only a larger stage from which he can better expose himself and the vulgar and arrogant absurdity of the neocon world view. Relish the rich irony of Kristol pontificating on the back page while the sharp, contrasting edge of front page realities eviscerates his very brain! This is well within the classic, liberal intellectual traditions of scientific and philosophical inquiry and we should fully support the NYT for doing the world a favor. And as for cleaning up that mess of oozing gray matter, well, that's what the NY Post is for...

SB

[Worldviews]

I'm not surprised. This is in keeping with a pattern:

The pundits with arrogant smirks that told us ad nauseam that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; those that were the most energetic cheerleaders for the invasion; who gushed orgasmic on prime time when we invaded; who were proven so wrong, and whose vociferous and incessant backing of the war contributed to loss of life in genocidal proportions, the devastation of a country and its people who never did us any harm, and half a trillion tax dollars squandered, those are the ones who are still the experts, the talking heads, the pundits, the columnists, the darlings of the mainstream press. Most still insist they were right all along! Needless to say, you rarely heard, in the mainstream, from opponents of the invasion before it occurred and you rarely hear from them now.

[McIlrath]

Have you considered hiring Paris Hilton? I hear she's available.

[Qbear]

I don't understand the NYT hiring Kristol, how many columns of just "BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN," do they think their readers will buy?

[burque]

Ah well, NYT is free to put who they want on their page. As much as I support newspapers having opposing views, I also just cancelled my subscription. It was an emotional stand, I admit. I can't bear the thought of any % of my money, however small, going to Mr. Kristol who has done so much harm. I'll still read articles on NYT online, but they'll get no direct revenue from me.

[ThomasMc]

Kristol is always wrong about everything. This says a lot about the Times that they would even consider hiring him.

[batguano]

The NY Times has lost any credibility it once had with this appointment of yet another NeoCon idiotlogue to it's staff.(In addition to the usual incoherent Con gibberish of David Brooks). The idea of adding "balance" to NYTimes commentary is just as absurd as adding "balance" from Goebbels/Nazi propagandists during WWII.
The genesis of Bill Kristol & his fathers ideology is interesting. The "Godfather" of the NeoCon movement, was Leo Strauss, who came to America in 1937, carrying a letter of recommendation from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Two of Strauss's students at the U of Chicago were Paul Wolfowitz & Abram Shulsky; others close to his thinking/teaching include Norman Podhoretz, Clarence Thomas, & Robert Bork.
Strauss taught:
1. There are two classes... the "superior" & the "inferior"... if you are wealthy & powerful, you are a "superior"... the rest of us are chumps & the "inferior".
2. It is up to the "superior" to use & manipulate the "inferior" with lies, religion, force or whatever it takes to PROTECT THE POWER AND WEALTH of the "superior".
3. The "superior" should profess religion, but need not believe it... because it will help control the masses.
4. Strauss' attitude toward foreign policy was that "a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat, he maintained that if no external threat exists then ONE HAS TO BE MANUFACTURED.

"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in, an "aggressive, belligerent foreign policy," of the kind that has been advocated by neocon groups like PNAC and the AEI " not to mention Wolfowitz and other administration hawks who have called for a world order dominated by U.S. military power.
Strauss' neoconservative students see foreign policy as a means to fulfill a "national destiny" " as Irving Kristol (Bills Father) defined it in 1983."

Some Strauss/NeoCon Backround; http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1355 http://www.alternet.org/story/15935
PLEASE READ these pieces, they will, perhaps, open your eyes!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC20Ak07.html

[garymbrown]

Lets all calm down. Agreed that Kristol is a clown but what are we afraid of, that he's going to change someone's mind? That won't happen. The Times is employing a philosophy of keeping its enemies close. We liberals should welcome opposite views to ours and support the first amendment, its what makes our country different and promotes a healthy dialogue. I can't tell you how many times I have read David Brooks and started a
heated argument with him in my head. It comes in handy when you run into a right winger during the course of your day. Lets not be afraid to engage the elite of the neo cons. We need to.

[Quotato]

Grist Mill Kristol is a real whiner on camera. At least we won't hear his smug squeaking voice while reading his text. Or will we?