The audacity how dare they hire a conservative to replace a conservative!

A pox upon your house New York Times.

Is Douthat as good as creating "facts" as Kristol?

How dare the NYT have a diversity of opinion!

FOX News

Is Douthat wrong about everything too?
Kristol was wrong about more things than any other writer I can think of.

29 years old?

I can't wait to hear with worldly opinion based upon years of experiences.

How dare the NYT have a diversity of opinion!

FOX News

#3 | Posted by northguy3

The New York Times has no liberal columnist?

Someone should tell Frank Rich, Roger Cohen, Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Nicholas Kristof, and Paul Krugman. I'm sure they would find that interesting.

Is Douthat as good as creating "facts" as Kristol?

Nope. I've read him in the Atlantic, and he's pretty grounded in reality. I am hopeful that he'll be a good columnist.

The token conservative at the NYT will feel like a heterosexual in SF.

"The token conservative at the NYT will feel like a heterosexual in SF."

So, fwthom, when was the last time you felt a heterosexual in SF?

And did he enjoy it?

Did you?

NYT is trying not to be like NYP which is a den of liberal vipers.

Did Time find a real one this time?

What's a "real" conservative to you? Could you name a few?

I would enjoy seeing the list of "real" conservatives as well.

Sort of greases the skids under them folk who still see the Times as "librul," don't it? The Times continues balanced journalism, Obama continues a centrist regime and the earth spins on. herm

Never did understand where the Riiightists got it in their collective (emphasis on "collective") noggin to perceive the NYT as anything other than mainstream, centrist, and very much an establishment organ. Because the paper's headquartered east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mason-Dixon line, perhaps? It's always been a centrist, leaning Democratic, paper. But they've never shut out other mainstream-mainline (read: "safe") pundits who weren't Democrats, e.g. William Safire. Bill Kristol's problem is he's an idiot and that reflected poorly on the NYT; simply put, he was an embarrassment. So when they had a chance, they dumped him.

Sort of greases the skids under them folk who still see the Times as "librul," don't it? The Times continues balanced journalism, Obama continues a centrist regime and the earth spins on. herm

#14 | Posted by herm
WTH, you got to be kidding. Nothing balanced on the Times, and Obama's Regime is being ran by Pelosi, nothing centrist about her. Come on, you can't belive what you just wrote, and if you do, please put your keyboard up or quit drinking one or the other.

It's fun to see those leftist wackos run the NYT into the ground. What a piece of shit that rag has become.

That lonely so-called conservative at the NYT must feel like a straight guy at a gay bar or a Christian in the ME.

That lonely so-called conservative at the NYT must feel like a straight guy at a gay bar or a Christian in the ME.
#18 | Posted by fwthom at 2009-03-12 09:51 AM | Reply | Flag: Mormon Missionary Stuck In Ali Baba's Cave & Hubble Bubble Bar (Beirut Branch)

This is the thread where RedCocosamVile makes a stupid prediction and a bunch of non sequiturs. He'll also mention his obsession Hannity.

#4 | Posted by danni
Thanks for the laugh.

That lonely so-called conservative at the NYT must feel like a straight guy at a gay bar or a Christian in the ME

Or an intellectual sitting next to doc.

Doc,

Do you actually read the times enough to actually believe any of the BS you are posting.

I have to ask Danni the same question.

I would guess the answer is NO.

Does anyone outside the Northeast read that rag?

The NYT has about as much diversity of opinion as a Madrassas or the Black Studies Department of any American University.

"The NYT has about as much diversity of opinion as a Madrassas or the Black Studies Department of any American University.
#24 | Posted by fwthom"

About which you know either nothing or next to nothing.

"Do you actually read the times enough to actually believe any of the BS you are posting.
#23 | Posted by chickenrancher "

Of course. My BS is fact-based, while yours is faith-based. That's why nobody actually expects you to know anything worth knowing. You get it a lot easier than most of us, since you're allowed to wallow in your ignorance with impugnity.

"Does anyone outside the Northeast read that rag?
#23 | Posted by chickenrancher"

Ah, another bumpkin reporting in. (See my #15 above.)

Black is white, death is life and God is real. Listen to the phoney Aristocrats frantically reinterpreting and rewriting their own history. They will say anything for the rich and powerful, on the slim chance they can join 'em.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis
Ah, another blumpkin reporting in.

I was right.

How funny.

Ah, another blumpkin reporting in.
#27 | Posted by freechoice

You can take a place next to Chickenrancher. He's not into reading, nuance, or information-based reality either.

How dare the NYT have a diversity of opinion!

FOX News

#3 | Posted by northguy3 at 2009-03-

sure

and last night I watched one of the fox programs and then turned it to cnn...lou dobbs actually who is more balanced than others on that chickenshit network and the entire show was almost the same as the fox program...so does this mean that dobbs should be on fox or does it meant that liberal nonsense about fox is just that
I say its the later.

oh yeah
.

I wonder if the mexican billionaire who loaned them millions and millions to stay in business at like a 14% interest rate or something like that is behind them hiring a conservative..

maybe the threat of thier doors being closed in the very near future as made them want to be more than just a liberal rag as they have been for some time.

heres hoping they go broke sooner rather than later.

#29 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis
No I just wanted to equate you to a blumpkin.

heres hoping they go broke sooner rather than later.

sorry bout this comment

it would put a lot of people out of work

all those people checking on who is lying this week in thier column and besides it might unleadh mo dowd on the public

and even worse .

without the times cbs and the others would have to write thier own copy.

Good move. Kristol lost his credibility long ago. Like the NYT or not, it is influential, and therefore conservatives need to have a responsible and intelligent proponent write for it.

And it does have more than its share of influence. (personal anecdotal evidence follows) I stopped reading the NYT probably 30 years ago. However, I still know what its columnists say because friends from various parts of the world consistently write to me re those columns. Not to mention how often its columns/stories appear in the newspapers and magazines I do read.

re: #20 post by 101...
speaking of non sequiturs...Geez.

No I just wanted to...
#32 | Posted by freechoice

That would require at least a modicum of originality and, face it, you're simply not up to it.

That would require at least a modicum of originality and, face it, you're simply not up to it.

#36 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis
You can keep with the rubber and glue all you want, but DOC_Sarvis now = Blumpkin. Take it with pride, no need to be ashamed of who you are.

I'll take "Blumpkin," no problem. You, however, embrace "Bumpkin" so well it's now clearly your nom de blog. Wear it with pride, bumpkin.
Yrs,
Blumpkin

I just wanted to equate you to a blumpkin.
#32 | Posted by freechoice at 2009-03-12 11:29 AM | Reply | Flag: Flag: Bumpkin

Actually, now that I've looked up an urban dictionary defintion for "blumpkin" I understand why Freechoice is so familiar with the term.

Again with the rubber glue stuff. It is amazing you make it through life.

#38 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

That is classic! Typical, no one can make you look more stupid than you can. Thanks for the help!

That is classic! Typical, no one can make you look more stupid than you can. Thanks for the help!

#42 | Posted by freechoice

Uhm, I think it looks way more stupid to be so familiar with what "blumpkin" means than not.

"Again with the rubber glue stuff"

You've sniffed plenty of that stuff already.

Fascinating you can't focus on the subject of the thread.

Uhm, I think it looks way more stupid to be so familiar with what "blumpkin" means than not.
#43 | Posted by SanAntonioRogue

Why am I admitting that came up in a conversation a couple of days ago... then later I tried to figure out the logistics....

By myself, thank you.

I never heard the term; thought the boob left a typo behind. I'd like to believe I'm pretty broad minded, and what he does and is intertested in on his own clock is definitely his own business, but it's really not something I'd be interested in. A trifle odd.

It is a duece bigalo and dodge ball reference. And like you a quick review of Urban Dictionary gave me the defination. And it made me sick just like you do. Damn you are dense. I can't belive I had to spell that out for you. Hell a NYT journalist would have picked that up faster than you.

Uhm, I think it looks way more stupid to be so familiar with what "blumpkin" means than not.

#43 | Posted by SanAntonioRogue
And if you did not know what it meant, how would you know? Think about it for an hour or 2 and logic might just hit you. I know it might be a first, but try it, you might like.

Kristol was wrong about more things than any other writer I can think of.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2009-03-11 10:11 PM | Reply | Flag

I can think of another one...

And if you did not know what it meant, how would you know? Think about it for an hour or 2 and logic might just hit you. I know it might be a first, but try it, you might like.

#49 | Posted by freechoice

Uhm, because I looked it up after your exchange with Doc.

God you're dumb.

"I can think of another one ..." - Mr.Fair

Charles Krauthammer. Jonah Goldberg. OK, more than one.

Uhm, because I looked it up after your exchange with Doc.

God you're dumb.

#51 | Posted by SanAntonioRogue
And I looked it up after a movie, the same way you did. Get the logic yet....

God you're dumb.

I will check back in a couple of hours to see if it hit you yet. You might want to let go of the drugs that sustain you from day to day, but that is just a suggestion.

"I can think of another one ..." - Mr.Fair

Charles Krauthammer. Jonah Goldberg. OK, more than one.

#52 | Posted by AILtd at 2009-03-12 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag

AILtd - I agree, Krauthammer can get a little crazy sometimes and I'm not that familiar with Goldberg, but I do know that Danni has posted an incredible amount of knee-jerk, emotional, partisan, inaccurate and downright dumb stuff in here.

If she were a real idiot or a troll I would just ignore her but she seems intelligent and engaging. She just seems to suffer from some kind of political Tourette's or something.

Think about it for an hour or 2 and logic might just hit you.
#49 | Posted by freechoice at 2009-03-12 05:53 PM | Reply | Flag: Hopelessly Clueless

so lets talk about media bias a little

I am reading the book...bias by bernie goldberg and I know most leftist here will just call it nonsense because even though he was with cbs for 30 years since he doesnt toe the company line he must be stupid but in the book he comes up with some interesting figures

first of all when he calls rather on a story they did, he became a nonperson at cbs....who apparently wasnt REALLY interested in journalism

but this part is about the homeless
and here are his numbers

1985-88 103 stories about the homeless on cbs/abc/nbc and 26 articles in time/newsweek/us news and world report

all blamed on the previous policies of reagan

1989...abc said the numbers were expoding because of RR policies
dec 89..brokaw said it was cut of social programs
nov 90..cut in low income housing
and all of these stories were AFTER a column in times that said that the problem was mostly due to grug and alcohol abuse.

1988 ny Times ran 50 stories on homeless with 5 on page 1
1998...times ran 10 stories..NONE on page 1

BUT>...1990 ....71 stories on abc,nbc,cbs, and cnn

1995....9 from all FOUR COMBINED

and then SUDDENLY in august of 2001
there just happened to appear a report on cnn that HOMELEsSNESS WAS ON THE RISE

I am sure that by now all of you can see the pattern
when a republican is in the white house there are stories galore and when a dem is in the white house the problem is JUST ALL OF A SUDDEN A NONISSUE....

hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm go figure