Lines breached!
The decision by the NYT to hire Bill Kristol, is causing outrage! amongst the faithful:
The New York Times’ hiring of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to write for its op-ed page caused a frenzy in the liberal blogosphere Friday night, with threats of canceling subscriptions and claims that the Gray Lady had been hijacked by neo-cons.
Hijacked! By the neo-cons!
Indeed, Kristol will join “token conservative” writer David Brooks in offering right-leaning commentary on the hallowed pages of the Grey Lady. Space for left-leaning columnists Maureen Dowd, Roger Cohen, Thomas Friedman, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof, Bob Hebert, and the NYT’s editorial board is not expected to be threatened.
Says Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal:
“The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing,”