Kristol is leaving the Times after a one-year stint. Almost everyone thinks he did a terrible job, but who would be better to replace him? The Politico throws out some names, but I personally think Joshua Trevino would be a better choice. I think Patrick Ruffini’s suggestion for Rush Limbaugh would be a wasted opportunity. who would you pick?
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I don’t think much of the NYT, but given that some of their biggest names (Maureen Dowd, Mark Rich, and Paul Krugman) are nasty, irrational, and quite dishonest, I’d think Anne Coulter or even Michael Savage would be perfect.
I also suggest that David Brooks should stop slumming and leave with Kristol.
(Kristol, by the way, is a nice guy but a bad fit for that page anyway; he belongs somewhere more like The Weekly Standard or National Review, or maybe a token Republican spot at a place like The New Republic.)
The Limbaugh suggestion is not, in my mind, bad at all. It appears to me that he has long drawn most of his schtick from poking his finger in the eye of the Northeastern Limousine Liberal set, of which Dowd, Krugman, and Rich are paragons. So he’d make a nice counterweight to them, the guy who shoots seltzer down the pants of the snooty elitists and hits them in the face with coconut cream pies. ("Honk honk!" on the clown horn for emphasis.)
How about Paul Wolfowitz? He’s from the same group of people. Perhaps Elliot Abrams?
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It’s got to be a New Yorker, IMO.Â
Glen Beck would probably be the best choice.  He’s more libertarian than conservative, but he is HOT right now. Also on the downside, his NY cred is kinda new.  Â
Bill O’Reilly would work too.  He’s New Yawka to the bone, but then again, he’s not a complete conservative either.
 If they want to go the total opposite of their typical current pundits just to balance things out, Sean Hannity might be their man.
I really think the NYT editorial page is on its last gasp. I simply couldn’t care less if they were to vanish completely.
They ARE the New York Media Elite. And I wish them no well at all.
Almost everyone thinks he did a terrible job,
Correction: almost everyone on the left thinks so.
The NYT hired Kristol to co-opt him as they did with David Brooks, and to lend some credibility to their partisan hackery. Kristol chose principle over loyalty and continued to criticize the NYT, so they fired him.
Which is kind of absurd really. What Conservative writer could write an article without criticizing the NYT? The paper is not very conservative friendly. Hell, even the Wall Street Journal has taken swipes at the Repubs lately. Having a dyed-in-the-wool conservative write for your paper is a lame idea anyhow. Unless of course that publication is dyed-in-the-wool conservative itself.
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