Webloggin » Lefties Wail in Bloody Horror after Bill Kristol Signs on with New York Times

The left is up in arms over the announcement that their favorite source of left wing propaganda will entertain, GASP, AN OPPOSING VIEW!!!! Yup, Bill Kristol, described on the Huffington Post as ‘Billy “the bloody” Kristol’ has agreed to write a column once per week for the New York Times.

We all know what this means, the Huffington Post will be forced to monitor and subsequently post the face saving “Comments for this post are now closed” gate at the running mouths of cry baby lefties that can’t stand to have their world view challenged let alone debated.

I love siphoning through the exasperatingly panicked comments over at Arianna central.

johnie2xs

When discredited and devious demons like ‘K’rystal, ‘K’arl Rove, and Tom DeLay continually get a forum in our MSM, we’re sunk. The “Old Grey Lady” takes on a discernably different coloration, (sh*t brown) is what I’m thinking, by taking on the likes of Billy Boy, here. The Neo-cons have had too prominent a place in the media, for far too long, already. A major shift is wanted and necessary if we’re ever going to pull ourselves out of the morass into which the Bush Cabal has taken us.
When will the media wake the hell up.

bluesky49876
Given this man’s complicity in the death of hundreds of thousands of people and destruction of an entire nation, it is galling of the NYT to confer upon him this respectability. But realizing that the U.S. corporate media is not looking for respectability but right wing mouth pieces to pursue their corporate agenda, it is not surprising.

Bluedanube
After Jason Blair, William Safire, Judith Miller, David Brooks, Thomas Friedman the NYTimes hiring of William Krystal proves that the NYT has finally jumped the shark.

The Daily Kos does no better, but what are we to expect with intellectuals such as the following:

The New York Times was a great newspaper way back when it was owned by the Sulzbergers, but now it’s just another plaything of the corporate whores on Wall Street.

Now that the Bancrofts no longer control the Wall street Journal, all the hard journalism that compensated for the wing-nut editorials will also disappear.

Media owned by American families served us fairly well for 200 years, because there was usually a little family pride that prevented really shameless whoring for the military-corporate establishment.

It’s pointless to complain about every little problem that comes along, like Joe Klein at Time and Kristol at the Times.

The only solution is to break these media conglomerates into much smaller pieces, which would be so much harder for the Wall Street bosses to control.

Kill me before I have to think again!

by Jacob Freeze on Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 09:29:30 AM PST

No Jason, kill me before you try and think again. Last I checked Sulzberger still publishes the paper, dolt.

It will be interesting to see what impact if any this move has on the flagging MSM bastion of left wing activism. For me it is no big deal, I didn’t like the rag before and could care less if the op-ed section jumped the shark on all of their columnists. Nothing much will change with the main page and that is where the paper really could use a royal enema.

That being said it is fun to watch the “blogger’s heads explode” as Kristol was quoted as saying. Good luck Bill; just don’t try to fit in too much.