The New York Times reports:
William Kristol, one of the nation’s leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday.
Mr. Kristol will write a weekly column for The Times beginning Jan. 7, the newspaper said. He is editor and co-founder of The Weekly Standard, an influential conservative political magazine, and appears regularly on Fox News Sunday and the Fox News Channel. He was a columnist for Time magazine until that relationship was severed this month.
Mr. Kristol, 55, has been a fierce critic of The Times. In 2006, he said that the government should consider prosecuting The Times for disclosing a secret government program to track international banking transactions.
In a 2003 column on the turmoil within The Times that led to the downfall of the top two editors, he wrote that it was not “a first-rate newspaper of record,” adding, “The Times is irredeemable.”
Well, Mr. Kristol will have to accept that at least this “irredeemable” paper is more open-minded than his intolerant little magazine.
A good lesson for a one-sided mind.
And a weekly pain for New York Times readers.
It will be very interesting to see if he tops the list of the paper’s most-read columnists.
I am sure he won’t.
Is this a preemptive strike against a future Murdoch WSJ attack?
