Just what we need. Another whiny smug ass-hat chickenhawk whose voice sounds like he has a plug up his behind.

That's conservative "meritocracy" for yah. Get it all wrong, help create an epic disaster, and get rewarded for it.

Conservatism is a friggin joke.

And the neocons will continue to point to the NYT as a bastion of liberal journalism.

"Honey! Come quick! I have figured out how to be rich! I'll just be wrong!"

Well Murdoch helped "William the Great" start the Weekly Standard. And it's no secret The New York Times is Murdochs next buyout-takeover target.

Crazy Stuff

Another NYT columnist to ignore - Dowd, Brooks, Kristol....

mr. kristol has a great deal of work ahead of him. the orchestration will be sublime and successful. we will be listening to israel much more this year to come. god help us.

Look on the bright side. Think how much fun we’ll have making fun of his editorials and writing all those letters to the Editor. And think of the jobs created in the mailroom and retraction departments. Every cloud has a silver lining or something.

They can know add condescending, to their other adjectives...

latest out of pakistan: bhutto died in her sleep of a massive heart attack.

Why does my local paper put Jonah, Will, Cal, Krauthammer on their op-ed?
Simple.
These are the door jams that keep wide open the idiot nation.

Gosh darn that liberal media.

This is part George Orwell, part Lewis Carroll.

Brooks, Kurtz, Kristol, Goldberg .... the list goes on ....

The CorpsMedia commentariat is a sheltered workshop for the otherwise unemployable relatives, stepchildren, and in-laws of influential men.

It is a Goodwill Industries for the hyperadvantaged less-than-able elite.

rjj @ 25:

Brooks, Kurtz, Kristol, Goldberg .... the list goes on ....

The CorpsMedia commentariat is a sheltered workshop for the otherwise unemployable relatives, stepchildren, and in-laws of influential men.

It is a Goodwill Industries for the hyperadvantaged less-than-able elite.

Actually, I thought it was a whorehouse.

Yeah well, NY Times was printing the lies right along with him for awhile there.

Oh good! Another newpaper to line the garbage can with, or that my imaginary cat can piss on rather than on the floor. If the NY Times sinks that low as to hire this mealy mouthed, poor excuse for a human being, that is all the paper will be worth. He didn't get those lips from licking apples that is for certain.

Linda @ 32:

[Bill Kristol} "should be ashamed of himself, I don't know if that's possible."

This 'base' human emotion of 'shame' has been selectively bred out of Billy.

You make it sound like Bloody Bill's job is to predict something... he is paid to say whatever it takes to help along the illegal actions of our Government. At that, he is quite successful and probably has more than a promotion coming.

I refuse to line the kitty litter box with Kristol's lunatic and criminal rantings.

goodbye NYT is right.
These guys are selling out the country for the almighty(?) dollar. I'm thinking that it may well be their own undoing. . . watch them unravel. . . heh heh heh. . .

Brought to you by the republicans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIiNOFJ1NU

Welcome to the new world order where the banal and the mediocre are given creedence over wisdom, wit, integrity and honor.

I would say that we are in a world of trouble in America and the chances of maintaining even a resemblance of democracy is tenuous indeed.

Huffington Post has banned comments for this story, looks like it's getting nasty.

Only thing Kristol should be writing are Society Pages

Somehow you was all kinda cheap 'n wrong
Just like in a lotta small towns
Where folks like you
Hang around too long
And pass out jobs to yer relatives 'n such
So you all keeps a lot, 'n nobody else
Ever gets too much...to speak of...
So what? What can you say?

Do what I do. The LA Times has Jonah Goldberg as a regular columnist ever Tuesday. I make sure to NOT buy the LA Times on Tuesdays. There are plenty of other sources to get news and opinions nowadays.

Hit them in their wallets.

Smart move NYT, you just caused Murdock to up his bid for your rag. Many birds are happy to get fresh dodo paper tho.

He's a fucking idiot. I hope that rag the Times sinks like a stone. I'm progressive leftist and believe me I used to respect the Times. I know they got worked over before with the Judith Miller shit but now I'm convinced the Neocons have infitrated fully. They have sold their souls to have editors who would choose to employ that fool. Good riddence to them. The road to hell is paved with the blood of many fools.

If you've got one, cancel your subscription to the NY Times.

It's the decent thing to do.

NY Times has always been in the tank for the corporatocracy that is our country. They have a one good columnist, Krugman, the rest can go to hell. Especially the so-called liberals: Rich, Friedman and Dowd. These guys can always be counted on providing ammo for right-wingers at just the right time.

f the Times for "proving we're not a liberal paper" A rightie can say the earth is flat and the times will say "we have to let both sides make their case"

The Times' primary interest remains Israel. Always has been. Always will be.

Sick Willie, Neocon and son of Irving, just fills a requirement.

Wow, I didn't think the NYT would sink so low for business. They must be desperate for new readers.

I am canceling my NY Times subscription. This is an obscenity. Send the NY Times as message. Say goodbye. If there is no consequence for stupidity than they can merrily continue to subject the American people to a propagandist of the worst kind.

His lips are NASTY!

Rumor is, he and Tom Friedman have a thing.

Ron Paul is a nutcase but he's the best republican running for president.

Newspapers are a dying breed anyway, most people I know get their news online these days.

JUST WONDERING - DO YOU DISAGREE?

William Kristol is a loud-mouthed bastard with no balls -- he is a coward par excellence, an intellectual pussy, and a major-league asshole. Plus, everything he says is a lie. AND HE HAS NEVER PUT ON A UNIFORM FOR AMERICA.

Personally, I don't care that William Kristol is an obnoxious, screaming, cowardly asshole (which he is). What I object to are the multitude of lies that fly out of his mouth without verification. You have chosen a teller of lies to be your columnist. Shame on you. You should know better. The fault ultimately lies with you and not with him.

He is ugly and a liar and you are ennabling him.

JOURNALISTIC CULPABILITY -- I'M TALKING TO YOU

Remember that Pinch Sulzberger totally supported the insupportable lies and BushCo transcriptions of Judith (Ms. WMD) Miller and Michael (Mr. Aluminum Tubes) Gordon which fanned the flames of the War on Iraq. Now, he hires a total flaming (and personally cowardly) asshole like William "the Bloodthirsty and Perpetually Wrong about everything Neocon" Putz Kristol to further defile the integrity of the New York Times. P.S. I don't take physical courage lightly, but I couldn't find courage of any kind with Mr. Kristol. He's definitely a military malingerer and a total coward. I don't care so much about you, because you didn't declare yourself a military volunteer. Still, something definitely went sour in the Sulzberger gene pool this last generation.

Same with the Grahams at the Post. Katharine Graham died with more balls than her own son has now. Judging from his retention of Hiatt, it may be too late for him to grow any of his own. He may indeed be the heir with no hair.

Unfortunately, at the L.A. Times, the scion was the setting sun of progress (Otis Chandler made the L. A. Times into one of the nation's great newspapers before his useless, John Birch, right-wing, stock-bond clipping cousins sold out to the useless and ineffectual Tribune Co. of Chicago -- and toward nowheresville).

Funny, isn't it, none or our preeminent newspapers would hire the late, great Thomas Paine now, the man who set the stage and the stakes for the American Revolution, and yet they'll hire effete, cowardly, intellectual bottomfeeders like Kristol or Brooks or Broder or Boot or Krauthammer and their odious ilk (all of whom have approved the War on Iraq and numerous other criminal acts by our Bush-league government). These "men" are all limp-wristed neocons who have never put on the uniform of their country and yet they tell other (poor and minority) people that they must fight for "freedom and democracy" so that the United States has access to Oil in the Persian Gulf. When you think of these people, remember that they are sniveling, physical cowards (picture Kristol or Brooks or Broder or Krauthammer or any of these punks with a gun in his hand and think how easily you could take it away. These people are the true picture of right-wing "pansy power" -- "faeries of the gun imagination").

Please remember that Bush and Cheney had designs on Iraq before 9/11 (since their first Cabinet meetings in 2001-- see Don O'Neill and since the Secret Cheney Energy Task Force --which was all about divvying up the Iraqi oil fields). We know now that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and yet Bush and Cheney kept selling their lies. Aren't you people at least ashamed?

William Kristol is a poisonous pustule on the face of humanity. His enablers like Pinch Sulzberger are the producers and underground purveyers of this virulent political puss.

Where does it end? Obviously, newspapers are your playthings. But don't you people think you have any responsibility to truth, to justice, to the American people?

Or, as it seems, are you happy to publish the ugly posturings of right-wing welfare babies (the Podhoretzes, the Kristols, the Kagans, the Goldbergs, and their loathsome ilk)? Where are the voices of a true progressive America -- Glenn Greenwald of Salon, Digby of Hullabaloo, David Sirota?

We, the American people, are much more liberal and progressive and caring about other Americans than you think we are. We oppose the War on Iraq by more than 70% and yet you don't figure that into your polls.

The Washington-Beltway media paved the way to a Bush victory in 2000 because they thought Al Gore was "wooden". Well, yes he was, but isn't that better than a President who is a total mind-fuckingly stupid person who would get us into a totally unnecessary, bloody war that is going to cost our children more than 3 trillion dollars?

Still with me? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are still the main culprits in this debacle -- but the mainstream media, particularly the Washington Post, the NY Times, and the L.A. Times, share in the culpability, because you people had to know that Bush and Cheney and all of their minions were lying, at every step of the way.

Myself, I knew just from reading betwen the lines of the papers I was reading in 2002 (the L.A. Times and the NY Times) that Bush was taking us inexorably to war. Neither paper announced it, but I could tell. The troop movements alone proved it, before any UN resolutions.

Still, Bush and the NT Times and the L.A. Times and the Washington Post lied (in keeping with "official" policy). It's one thing to have your government lie to you (with Bush, it's expected), but to have the three most important newspapers in our country lie at the same time is unforgiveable.

You may have had lying stenotypists in your midst (Judith Miller and Michael Gordon of the NY Times, Sue Schmidt of the Washington Post, in addition to journalistic quislings like Howard Kurtz and Wolf Blitzer), but there is still no excuse for the spineless journalistic reactions to Plamegate, Libbygate, et. al.

None of the big three of newspaper journalism have shown any backbone, any cojones, any heart in the last seven years opposing the "Mayberry Machiavellian" rule of the ever stupid George W. Bush or the ever evil Dick Cheney.

We, the American people, expect better.

Gosh, I just checked, and I can get the NYT delivered to my door for $576 a year. Now that Bill 'the bloody' Kristol is doing columns for them, that seems like a real bargain...

What's the big deal? They don't call the Times the Grey Lady for nothing (as in senile). Its editorial pages are already ridiculous, so what's so important about the addition of another clown? Just remember; the Times is and always has been one of the worst excuses for cutting down trees on the planet.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. Print is dead. The old models are dead. How many daily newspapers did New York have just 50 years ago, and how many does it have now? The NYT is just hanging on, but it's time has passed along with all of the others. Even 24/7 cable news is dying out. Their audience is getting smaller and smaller and all they are doing is fighting over the percentages of that ever shrinking pie. Why do you think CNN is becoming Fox News? Because the television news audience is older and more conservative and that is who CNN and Fox are fighting over.

More and more people are turning to the internet to get their news and information and they are getting it from a myriad of places and don't have to listen to the talking heads trying to distract them from what is really happening.

Like with everything else, I think 2008 is going to be a watershed on all of these things. Reality shit is fixing to hit the neocon fantasy fan, and then we will see their model of "making their own reality" for what it is. As people are thrown out of their homes, as inflation (yes, I said inflation) hits the roof, as we head into a depression the likes of 1929, then all of the neocon fun will be over. People aren't going to have the time nor the inclination to listen to their shit. People will wake up to the fact that the neocon agenda has screwed the economy so badly and the middle class especially that I think there will be an actual revolt against these people.

You know, during the great depression, there was actual fear among the upper classes that we would have a revolution like in France. The only thing that kept that from happening was elections. We could change course by throwing out the people who got us into that mess.

It is time to throw them out again.

AConfederacyofDunces @ 30:

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...

The 9/11 'WTC-Reichstag-Fire' was part of a Corporate & Political pre-conception of a New World Order to be. Ronald Reagan will be smiling in his grave, for he laid the groundworks under the Bush 1 & 2 Corpocracies, wich we now experiënce, day by day, Worldwide, as U.S. Fascism!

READ; "THE SHOCK DOCTRINE"! By Naomi Klein.

I wish every living creature the best for 2008, but I'm very pessimistic about the new-coming year. We'll see increased tensions hap-hazard violence inflaming more structural violence, CORRUPTION COMES AT A PRICE and the people, the "WE THE PEOPLE" will pay that price as long as they let themselves to be governed/corrupted by ELITE CRIMINALS! CORPORATE, POLITIC, MEDIA-ELITE-CRIMINALS! Intermingled in a WORLD-WIDE psychopatic greed-frenzied powerplay, ongoing creditcrunch, national debt rising, Observed and Scrutinized trough Home-Land-Security and unwarrented eaves-dropping and controled by Blackwater Gestapo, the year to come looks grim.

And next comes up that election, that 'socalled' Democratic Election, election of the demo-crazy is my understanding of that choreography of misleadings. Except for a few contenders they're all eye-deep into corruptive (anti-democratic) dealings with the judea/christian neo-angels on earth, THE LOBBYISTS! Liberal presidential contenders and the Conservative, except a few, are the two sides of the same coin, and that coin "THE MIGHTY U.S. $$ DOLLAR" is worth less and less, the dollar on the verge of a collaps, like-wise is a Political-Election-System that is fed by that same coin!

Again, I wish for all human beïngs in the World peace and prosperity, but the criminal-powerfull, our socalled leaders, have gone crazy (again) and are corrupted by the power they seek, we live in grim times.

Good lord. So being right, ever, about anything, is no longer criteria for hiring?

Isn't getting Kristol tons of public exposure actually a good thing? The more he is out there, making an ass of himself, the better, right? Like when Howard Stern has on Daniel Carver, or Letterman brings on Bill O. Getting these stinky piles of steamin' poop out into the sun surely is a good thing, unless one believes, as the Neocons do, that people are stupid. I think the Times is giving Kristol just enough rope.

you folks need to get a life, no one reads the NYT anyway.

dadams @ 6:

looks like a massive subscription cancellation is needed here.
if they want to be a reichwing pundit pulp rag, then it's time to show them what it costs.

i am canceling my subscription now.

Their TV ads almost had me taking a subscription for the weekend edition--cheap. No thanks. I hope their stock tanks.

I swear I've fallen down the rabbit hole. Someone please tell me how to get out.

Didn't Murdoch just buy the NYT?

It was only a matter of time before they started loading it up with Fox-heads.

He can have Judy Millers office.

The NY Times' moniker is "All the news that's FIT to print".

Anything out of Bill Kristol's pie hole isn't fit to wrap dead fish in.

This isn't your father America anymore Johnny.... uhhhh... what's that? ... this just in.... apparently IT IS your fathers America.... things have not changed much at all... it is just we are now becoming increasingly aware (thanks to the last bastion of mass free speech outside of universities, we have in the world, a.k.a. the internet) of how TOTALLY FUCKED UP things have been all along.

Lets see, from Jason Blair to Judith Miller, to David Brooks, to Tom Friedman, to William Krystal. The NYTimes has finally jumped the shark.

Movement conservatism isn't about being right. It's about wealth and power. Kristol is a barker for the "keep repeating the message no matter what" neoconservative wing of that moneyed cult which owns most of America outright and controls the rest politically.

sulphurdunn @ 102:

Movement conservatism isn't about being right. It's about wealth and power. Kristol is a barker for the "keep repeating the message no matter what" neoconservative wing of that moneyed cult which owns most of America outright and controls the rest politically.

PreacherBoob says: Think of all the fun Kristol, Safire, and Friedman will have sitting around and playing ‘Scissors, Paper, Rock’, while plotting the finishing touches on the Israeli coup of the US government.

It's all about Israel. Actually, there are plenty (a majority) of Israelis that would reject Kristol et al. So, I correct myself. It's not about Israel. It's all about the monied, political elite Neocons in America who have fixated on Israel at the expense of Israeli/American morality, and of their own souls.

I am a daily home-delivery subscriber to the New York Times, and have been for years. This morning I e-mailed their circulation department, saying I wanted to suspend delivery for every issue in which a Kristol editorial appears, and receive a corresponding credit on my bill. I asked, "Isn't the world situation perilous enough without bringing a neo-con madman on board who wants to bomb Iran unilaterally?"

If one Times subscriber out of ten would do the same, it might make a difference.

William Kristol is so ghoulish he could The Joker in the next Batman movie. I gave up on the NYT a long time ago so no loss there.

New HR policy for the MSM--"F--K up and move up." Be all the incompetent you can be."

Someone please refresh my memory...Bill Kristol has been right about what? I didn't think so....he is a delusional, lying, reichwingnut. A leg humping 24% thug.

Folks, Kristol is being hired to write for the astrological predictions and psychic section, where it's okay to have a zero track record.

Oh, he's not? My bad...

OOOooohhh the prideful Neo Con spunk Kristol is swallowing to take a job at his most evil emenies employment. Anything for a buck or is it rather that non f his conservative media truth pirates find enough credibility left in Kristol to employ him and his works?

What of the Heritage foundation? Is there no nut wing center that can save Kristol from working in the liberal lions den?

What of this so called (legendary) conservative pride, values, principles? To recieve a paycheck from a liberal enemy leaves Kristol with less conservative values than he started with. Sure he will write of the villanous evil liberal "Times" to try to prove he is not bought. But we all know better!

Best of all, -this news invokes sad times for conservatives in media when they must set aside these legendary neocon principles for a check.

-That the right wing can't afford his neocon nonsense any more.

-Best is the fact that the NY Times might hold Kristol in circulation during a time the right wing media desparately wishes their EX-Rightwing wacko extrordinaire to go away. The Times will keep Kristol in the Rights face.

_ And to hear Kristol's '08 republican campaign opinions. When not even FOX would take Kristol to further the radical rights causes. I am surprized that Kristol was given Dana Perino's job as White House Press Secretary. After all Wolfie was brought back in to the White House after his failure at the World Bank.

" Rewarding failure ", A Republican tradition since Richard Nixon........................

People still read the Times? I much prefer the New Yorker. And they have great comics.

Really? And there's nothing we can do about this?

I just wrote to the NYT and reminded them of Judith Miller's "journalism", the racist anti-Iranian ads they have been running, and their complicity in the attack on Iraq. I told them that this is absolutely the straw that broke the camel's back, and I will not only cancel my subscription, I will tell their advertisers why I can no longer buy from them- I refuse to be a supporter of William Krystol's hate and error filled propoganda. If I were to continue purchasing the NYT or from their advertisers money would move from my pocket into the war mongering William Krystol's pocket.

Please tell the NYT in writing and on the phone why you are cancelling and tell advertisers why you will not purchase from them. If you don't tell them, loud and clear, they will not know. Each lost customer is very important as we go into recession. Don't allow your money to go to these war mongerers, but make sure the paper and their advertisers know this is a concious choice on your part.

Maybe Kristol is intended to be the NYT's sacrificial pwn, the 'designated slammer-inhabiter', the Judith Miller replacement.

All he has to do is maintain his current style of '-----------------' (whatever it is he does), and he'll get busted, now that he's a shill in the Big Time.

While he's in the slammer, everyone's attention will be on him, and the Times can keep on slippin' and slidin'.

Cool. Now Bloody Bill can give inside reports on his war crimes trial. The Times is getting the scoop of 2008.

Let's be honest. Who here respects the NY times? Remember Judith Miller's front page lies. The NY times has been rocked with scandal of lying reporters for a long time now. And guess what??? If you get caught 5 times lying, odds are that you also got away with lying another 5 times.

So now that Rupert Murdoch has the Journal, the Times responds by stealing one of his guys. Another pathetic attempt to pick up readers. They don't care about credibility as much as they care about readership and circulation. They made the decision that since Kristol has clout in the republican circles of Washington, DC that his addition would add some free advertising throughout the media since he is referenced so much.

The New York Times, the title stays the same but its people change.

ashabot @ 2:

The NYT must be getting desperate. Kristol is a ghoul.

New York Time is only bringing in another view point, that is freedom of speech. Why is everyone going nuts because NYT is doing something to increase readership. NYT is a business, they do what they do for shareholder value, not for social or political crap... its a business, NYT needs to keep reminding themselves of that... they are a business.

Make a profit, shareholders make money, paper keeps being printed but if no one buys, then the paper will eventually go awat

Otay @ 1:

Just what we need. Another whiny smug ass-hat chickenhawk whose voice sounds like he has a plug up his behind.

Don't get personal, you don't the guy. I don't always agree with him but he is morel left then his editor/partner on the WS... I think his name is Barnes. Stick to the issues... you ditract from your message when you attack the person.

From your statement, I can't figure out what are your issues. He has every right to join NYT, because they hired him...NYT hired him to get people to read the editorials...simple as that...Lib or Cons will both read his articles

Mal @ 132:

If this guy is so fund of war then someone should give him a fuckin rifle and send him to Iran.

You are a fool. No one is fond of war... war, regretably, is part of human history.. look back to dawn of time... people have been killing each other for generation and will continue to do so for generations to come.

It is what it is because , WE, people are self preserving animals. Your premise, if we use your thinking on another topic would suggest that the A-bombs should not have been used in WWII. Do you think we should not have used the bomb on Japan? War is inevitable, the question is which side do you want to be on.. the winner side or the losing side

Preacher Boob @ 126:

If Kritol's jailer threatened him with waterboarding, I'll bet he'd give up the Illuminati secret handshake and cockrub.

kristolnacht is into poultry massages?

Stewie Griffin when he grows up?

One follow-up thought: Anyone cancelling a subscription or (as in my case) asking to not receive a copy of the Times on days when Kristol's editorials appear, should also send a copy of the request to the Times' public editor. Address is public@nytimes.com

The Times is owned by a public corporation, listed on the NYSE, called The New York Times Company. It also owns the Boston Globe. It's important to remember that in this era of media conglomeration, profit-and-loss figures matter far more than journalistic integrity or editorial responsibility. Those are old-fashioned notions from an era when newspapers were independent, not corporate. Point being...hit them hard in the pocket, that's where they'll feel it. And, make sure they're aware that you know that.

Conservatives read newspapers. "Progressives" bitch about them. It's not like any of you regularly read the NYT... no, the regular readers are the ones who read them on the way to work... as in they have a job... thus they are (most likely... there are always exceptions) conservatives.

And for all of you sensationalists heralding the coming of a "new world order" and facism because of an employee some newspaper has hired... you are truly ridiculous. The fact is that both your life and my life has not changed one bit since Bush was elected in regards to privacy. You can CLEARLY still write what ever you want no matter how imflammatory it is against the president with no reprecussions... as everyone here is doing. In fact, I would say that there is greater vocal expression of distaste for this president than any in the last couple decades. So, in actuality, your freedoms are not being repressed in the least bit. In fact people are executing their freedoms more today than in recent history.

Ah yes, Bill Kristol, Chairman of the Project for the New American Century, which was pimping for the overthrow of Saddam before Georgie even became President... joined at the PNAC by such other illuminaries as Elliott Abrams, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. Glad they are balancizing their reporting so objectiviably!

david: "as in they have a job… thus they are (most likely… there are always exceptions) conservatives."

Are you seriously stating that it is a foregone fact that most people with jobs are by definition conservatives? And you applaud that as an intelligent observation, Pete?

So now, basically, with a few exceptions, all non-conservatives are unemployed?

miss_kitty @ 148:

david @ 143:

Conservatives read newspapers. "Progressives" bitch about them. It's not like any of you regularly read the NYT... no, the regular readers are the ones who read them on the way to work... as in they have a job... thus they are (most likely... there are always exceptions) conservatives.

And for all of you sensationalists heralding the coming of a "new world order" and facism because of an employee some newspaper has hired... you are truly ridiculous. The fact is that both your life and my life has not changed one bit since Bush was elected in regards to privacy. You can CLEARLY still write what ever you want no matter how imflammatory it is against the president with no reprecussions... as everyone here is doing. In fact, I would say that there is greater vocal expression of distaste for this president than any in the last couple decades. So, in actuality, your freedoms are not being repressed in the least bit. In fact people are executing their freedoms more today than in recent history.

I used to read the NYT. daily. Then I saw 'Manufacturing Consent.' Why would I put any faith in the shit that rag has been churning out-"All the 'news' that's shit, we print."

That Judith Miller became the story she was pimping for the admin (Propagandising-against federal law for the gov't to engage in), the discovery Jayson Blair and another plagiariser whose name I don't recall should have pointed up and underlined that The NYT is barely fit to line bird cages or be used as fish wrap, much less be considered 'The paper of [historical] record.' It's laughable.
And bill kristol has the same cred as does Miller, Blair and every other plagiarisng moron whose editor was napping when s/he should have had the blue pencil out...

And the fact is, our privacy has been highly undermined by the Bush admin. What do you think half of the Gonzo shit was all about? Have you not heard of the telecom immunity mess? Do you read at all?

And I am in 180 degree disagreement with Pete, your fan club. I hope you two can get it together someday, if you haven't already. you sound perfect for one another. You must have called him right after you posted and asked him to agree with you. How sycophantic of him!

Check out 'Manufacturing Consent,' then come back and bitch about people who make Informed Decisions.

Ok, so how has your life changed in regards to your new found lack of privacy?