Times staffers, Safire don’t like Kristol hiring
Looks like crazy liberals (like myself I guess) werent the only one’s pissed off by the New York Times hiring Bill “Are you ever right?” Kristol. Today The New Republic has a piece by Gabriel Sherman that sheds some more light on things.
In summery: all the people who work at the Times, except for the guy who hired Kristol Arthur Sulzberger Jr., think it was a mistake, pointing out, among other things, that the guy’s not much of a writer and has trashed the Times in the past. Also, Charles Krauthammer was considered for the job as well, so clearly intelligence and talent were not criteria in the search for a new “conservative” columnist. Further Sherman asked former Times columnist William Safire what he thought of the hiring and Safire pointed to Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s article on the matter. In the article Hoyt said he would not have made the hiring.
There you have it. Between Kristol on the Time’s op-ed page and the general trash the Washington Post Editorial Board puts out, commentary from the internets keeps looking better and better.
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