The NY Times issues two corrections for Kristol’s latest column and two for David Brooks as well. I have a feeling that this pattern will only continue: Kristol writes dumb/unoriginal/wrong column, NY Times issues a correction a few days later. via
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Thank you New York Times for continuing to bring us Bill Kristol’s column on a weekly basis. In this week’s column Kristol writes:
On Tuesday night, while the G.O.P. Congressional candidate was losing in a Mississippi district George Bush carried in 2004 by 25 points, Barack Obama was being trounced in the West Virginia Democratic primary — by 41 points. I can’t find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party’s nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin.
This would be somewhat interesting….if it were even remotely accurate. As Steve Benen points out:
John McCain, for example, won the Republican nomination this year after losing Kansas by 36 points, Arkansas by 40 points, Colorado by 42 points, and Utah by 83 points. I
Exactly how hard was Kristol looking? And where were the Times’ fact-checkers or editors? How does something this stupid make it on to one of the most valuable pieces of newspaper real estate? Seriously, how?
Think Progress points out that this is Kristol’s third “strike”. Unfortunately for readers of the Times, that doesn’t seem to matter to Kristol’s bosses.
Oh happy day! The awful David Broder, king of conventional wisdom, a man who hasn’t had an original insight in 25 years, a man who is a slave to a centrism that is defined by policies/politics he favors, who pushes for a unity ticket with Michael Bloomberg on it, who is seemingly on Meet the Press every week to say dumb things to moron Tim Russert, has taken a buyout offer from the Washington Post! Yay, no more Broder! No more Broder! If only it were so:
The column you have been running will not change at all, and you will continue to receive it from The Washington Post Writers Group. I will continue to write from the same office in the Post newsroom and will continue to travel the country to wherever politics is happening. You will find me at the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer and on the campaign trail this fall, just as I have been this winter and spring.
As of Jan. 1, I will become a contract employee of The Washington Post Company. For the last two years, the bulk of my reporting has gone into the column, rather than the news pages of the Post. This change will allow me to focus entirely on the column, while freeing up the Post to use its budget for other news-section salaries and expenses.
So. Nothing is changing really? Then why get my hopes up headline writers? Instead of “Broder takes Post Buyout” write “Broder takes money but will continue to poison Post’s Op-Ed page for the next 100 years”?
Last week the L.A. Times published an article about a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur that linked Sean “P. Diddy” Combs to the attack. The Smoking Gun investigated and says the Times was the victim of a hoax:
The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes, and The Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs’s trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion “Suge” Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud.