Michael Wolff: Sulzbergers 'The Stupidest People Who Have Ever Walked The Earth'

Vanity Fair contributor/Newser founder/Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff is no stranger to the provocative quote. And he delivered Wednesday at the We the Media conference in Miami, slamming the New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and his father, with a classic Wolff dig.

Wolff described the Sulzbergers as "just the stupidest people who have ever walked the earth."

He added, "They are not just hopeless, but hapless. The people who run [The New York Times Company] are ill-equipped to do it."

Wolff, an outspoken critic of the Times, recently wrote that the paper purposely excluded his name and book title from an article about Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch because of his comments about the company.

Comments

[marignymitch]

01:36 PM on 03/15/2010

True, perhaps, but they possess things more important than brains: power and money.

It's a pleasure living in the USA.

[mapmaker515]

11:36 AM on 03/15/2010

Sorry Mike....th­e Palins have captured both the gold and silver medals in that competitio­n.

[Clevelandinwi]

03:29 AM on 03/15/2010

Why do these poor little cry babies get ink?

[beckpod1]

08:43 AM on 03/13/2010

Evolution.­..the smart move on to live another day...the stupid have had their day in the sun....and have failed...n­atural selection.­..the thinning of the herd...
But no lessons were learned!

[hdohighdesertobserver]

06:30 PM on 03/12/2010

Have you been to the DMV?

[hdohighdesertobserver]

07:32 PM on 03/12/2010

Man, I cannot land a punch today. No Seinfeld fans online?

[ledocia]

05:13 PM on 03/12/2010

IF the paper is so bad, why was he upset that they didn't print anything
about him or his book? who is the dumb one

[zest]

04:37 PM on 03/12/2010

Don't buy the paper anymore, too expensive. Don't go to it online because the format is terrible, wouldn't pay to view it in it's current rendition.

[skyryter]

12:50 PM on 03/14/2010

Get it on line every day. Some of the most informed daily comment available. Perhaps you should switch sources...­.

[larry278]

02:18 PM on 03/12/2010

Are the Murdochs more or less stupid than the Sulzberger­s? When & where did either family start walking? Did either group slither or brachanite­(sic?) before learning to walk?

[DuckofDeath]

02:00 PM on 03/12/2010

Like the WaPo, the NYT has become more and more right wing. The NYT is also a billion in the hole and starting this month you'll have to pay to read it online. The grey lady is going down. Good riddance. If we can find ourselves on the brink of financial collapse and in yet another pointless, ruinous war with the corporate media.....­I'm sure we can do it without the corporate MSM.

[ebanks84]

12:00 PM on 03/12/2010

This sounds very personal to me, so I'll pass on commenting­. Bye.

[mark331blue]

10:51 AM on 03/12/2010

I think I want someone with better qualificat­ions than Wolff to make that call.

[Dan Garfinkel]

08:06 AM on 03/12/2010

This is the way I used to talk in third grade. I coulda been a publisher!

[mamacat]

06:50 AM on 03/12/2010

Are they serious? The list of the world's dumbest people would have to include 90% of everyone who has ever lived, and the other ten percent is suspect.

[afgail]

01:07 AM on 03/12/2010

Sulzberger­, isn't that Caroline Kennedy's husband?

[mollybeejay]

11:38 AM on 03/12/2010

Heck no. She is Schlossber­g. her husband is a lawyer.If it was, do you think she would have been so savaged by the Times when her name was suggested for the Senate to replace ted Kennedy?

[reasonshouldrule]

11:57 PM on 03/11/2010

Wolff's comment puts much more attention on his own mental abilities than it does on the object of his scorn. If he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to use different language.