Darn That Liberal Media!

The NY Times is, apparently, set to hire Bill Kristol to do a weekly column in 2008. Kristol is, of course, the media's main neocon ringleader, a man who sees every country in the world as a potential target of U.S. military might (besides Iraq and Iran, he advocated this against China in early 2001, and most recently this year advocated the same against Burma). Non-political junkies will recognize him as Jon Stewart's second most frequent sparring partner (after McCain, natch).

When he's not playing armchair general, Kristol also excoriates all news media not owned by NewsCorp. He's said of the Times in the past that the paper should be prosecuted for writing about Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, and said also that it isn't "a first-rate newspaper," joking that "Fundamental regime change" was needed. On that last count, it would appear mission accomplished.

Like Karl Rove's new Newsweek gig, it's continuously fun to see how many crazy, failed conservatives the liberal media offers a perch to (as opposed to people like Phil Donahue or Robert Scheer who were fired for being insufficiently pro-war). They have to... otherwise Bernie Goldberg might write another mean book about them.

[UPDATE: This old Tom Tomorrow cartoon perfectly satires this media phenomenon.]