Is the Times A-Changing?
The NY Times recently brought William Kristol onto its editorial pages and the uber-geniuses on the left fairly fell into heart palpitations at the news.
The hatred that liberals so often express against anything conservative is as visceral as it is vicious and the Kristol case is consistent with that kind of caustic commentary.
It’s certainly true that liberals regard the NY Times as their newspaper, just as they regard Fox News as the enemy. The hiring of Kristol, who is despised by the libs for his positions on Iraq and his relationship with the neo-conservative movement that lead America there, must be seen as a sign that things are changing there.
More than that, however, is the fact that the left does not want the Times’ weight and reputation put behind the words of a conservative writer of any kind, let alone Kristol.
Liberals do not want people to read or hear conservative points of view. But if it must be done, let it be through AM talk radio or Fox News, sources that they’ve already lined up against with their buckets of pitch and paint brushes to paint the content of these news sources as inherently biased.
How much more revolting must it be for liberals to see conservative commentary like Kristol’s latest in the Times?
It’s easy to see why. The left has so much to lose in the unlikely-but-suddenly-more-possible scenario that fair, unbiased reporting becomes the standard at the Times. Should that happen we can undoubtedly look forward to more excellent pieces like this editorial in which the Times exposes the distended, pork-laden belly of one of the liberal left’s own, Representative John Murtha.
btw i found it interesting Bill Kristol wrote an editorial that Mike Huckabee may in fact be the best Republican candidate and everyone is underestimating him: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/opinion/07kristol.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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Please inform me, name the liberal who does not, "… want people to read or hear conservative points of view. …".
Name the person (other than right wingers) who "… fell into heart palpitations at the news. …".
It is tiresome to hear sniveling from ‘conservatives’ who insist on blaming others for doing what they themselves do. Your choice of words (… The hatred that liberals so often express against anything conservative is as visceral as it is vicious and the Kristol case is consistent with that kind of caustic commentary. …) is laughable.
Perhaps you can try and tell us how conservatives feel. Does it not indicate Kristols’ extreme right-wing positions are snake oil when he is willing to go write for the "Times"?
Let liberals and progressives speak for themselves. Speak for yourself.
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Ema,
Have you checked the Daily Kos comments about the NYT publishing Kristol? I think a fair minded reader could see a lot of comments which appear to be liberals objecting to the NYT publishing Kristol. One might reasonably interpret that as an objection by liberals to Kristol or other non-liberal viewpoints being published by the NYT. The cynic might say, "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
My personal observation (30 plus years) is that it is liberals, far more often than conservatives, who try to suppress speech they disagree with. Check out the Volokh postings yesterday of the Bergen Community College conduct code. I do not think the hostility toward opposing viewpoints is unique to the left, but it is much more frequently expressed in our society by the left than by the right. Where the right tends to suppress speech is in self-selecting ways, like membership in religious denominations. If one does not share the basic tenets of the faith, you are asked to leave.
Kristol? Conservative?. Thanks for the fun.
Liberlas intolerant ? Is NY Times liberal