December 30th 2008
Chronicles Of Liberal Open-Mindedness
W
hen the NY Times offered Bill Kristol a slot as an op/ed writer, it was hardly a solid endorsement of Kristol’s conservative positions. No, instead they gave him a one year contract.
The contract is now running out … in fact, today is Kristol’s one-year anniversary. Over the last year, Kristol has written solid and provocative pieces in the grayer and grayer lady, offering a point of view that is not often presented to the NYT’s liberal readership. Will he be able to continue? There’s no word yet on that, but the NY media-tracking blog Fishbowl NY decided to run a survey asking, “Should he stay or should he go?” Actually, they weren’t quite that unbiased in asking the question. Here’s it in its entirety:
It’s hard to imagine them keeping Kristol, though they did hire him in the first place, so stranger things have happened. What say you readers? Should he stay or should he go?
Here’s what they said, as of 10:45 a.m. PST today: 26% “Yep, I’d keep him” vs. 74% “No way! Good riddance!”
Well, at least the tolerant and open-minded left wished him good riddance … although I don’t think the stats would have changed very much with a “No way! May he rot in Hell!” option.
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