Matt Yglesias

22 Responses to “Number Four”

1. Njorl Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

   I heard they wanted to skew younger to boost future circulation numbers, but they couldn’t find anyone capable of avoiding typos and pure usage to their satisfaction.

2. drjimcooper Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   I bet it’s not difficult to identify people willing to take on the challenge of the country’s most prestigious op-ed page page.

   This sounds like a shameless bit of self promotion.

3. Gerald Fnord Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   I can’t remember which author (Swift?) it was who said that “astrologer” was the best possible job, because in that job getting things wrong 99 out of 100 is evidence of genius, whereas in other jobs you are _expected_ to get things right that often for mere competence.

   Wasn’t Kristol also touting the letter recently proved a forgery that “confirmed” Hussein’s renascent nuclear programme and ties to al-Qa’eda?

4. James Robertson Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

   When you start noticing the corrections they should be making to Bob Herbert (who can’t tell what objects are in which skyline, but is certain that they are phallic symbols), and Paul Krugman, who constantly has trouble wrapping his politics around his economics background, let the rest of us know.

   And no, this isn’t an excuse for Kristol, who I don’t think much of. It’s just that his slipshod writing is pretty much par for the course for a paper that considers Maureen Dowd to be an intellectual…

5. MattF Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

   It’s not Kristol’s fault– it’s that durned difference between facts and ‘facts’.

6. Mark Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

   For the right, facts are simply a nuisance that stand in the way of larger truths. It’s truthiness at an elevated level; you have a position then make things up to support it (think Iraq).

7. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

   I thought Greenwald did a column were he laid out the case that Rosenthal(the NYT’s Fred Hiatt) is either friends with Bill “William the Bloody” Kristol or Irving Kristol. Nepotism is the name of that game. They don’t care how many mistakes William the Bloody makes.

8. kid bitzer Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

   it’s just another element of wing-nut welfare. the nyt is no different from the aei in this regard. it’s just another right-wing mouthpiece, with the advantage that the right-wing gets to call it ‘liberal’.

9. jb Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   Bill Kristol has never been right about anything EVER.

   I don’t understand why he still has a job….

10. daleyrocks Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    Yeah, I wonder when he submitted the column for publication. It’s too bad they never bother correcting Paul Krugman’s lies. I wonder why?

11. Peter K. Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    I don’t understand why Krugman keeps hammering Obama about possibly losing the election, like he did again today in his column.

    If Obama loses it will be because of Hillary and her blind supporters.

12. bobbo Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Bill Kristol: he’s not a bug; he’s a feature.

13. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Keep sucking up, Matt! You’ll get the job yet!

    Then the NYT can set a record for typos and bad grammar.

    And you can demonstrate that you’re at least as ignorant as Kristol about everything.

14. Asher Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    Yeah, I thought it was weird how he said there was no basis for the charge when there was an article a few pages back reporting that the charge was true. Don’t they copy-edit?

15. pseudonymous in nc Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    Ah, it’s the perma-Greenwald-troll, daleyscock.

    Don’t they copy-edit?

    There’s apparently one firm rule: don’t criticise other NYT op-edders by name.

    It’s the Safire seat, designed for dissemination of right-wing agitprop, and while Safire could make unsupported claims — he apparently still sticks by the Atta-in-Prague thing — he was enough of a pedant to avoid the basic sloppiness that comes from Kristol not giving a shit about this particular gig, and thus phoning in his columns.

    (Here’s the TNR piece by Gabriel Sherman on the Kristol-Rosenthal connection.)

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