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Kristol Clear: UPDATE
Posted by D.R. Foster Jan, 26, 2009 @ 4:28 pmWilliam Kristol, the sole neocon presence on the New York Times’ Op-Ed page, has written his final column for the Grey Lady. How did the Times notify its readership of Kristol’s departure? What kind of send-off did they give the esteemed conservative pundit and Weekly Standard editor? What tribute to his work?
“This is William Kristol’s last column” appeared as a postscript to the otherwise unremarkable 20 inches on whether Obama can “save liberalism.”
O! What an elegy!
Reaction on the blog-o-tubes was, unsurprisingly, mixed. Folks like Christopher Orr at TNR think the abvoe sentence was a greatest piece of writing ever to appear in a Kristol column. Greg Mitchell at the Huffington Post posted a kind of “blooper reel”, documenting, rather lamely, Kristol’s mistakes during his tenure. On the right, Peter Wehner at NRO took the opportunity to beat up the Times …
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Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Posted by D.R. Foster Jan, 14, 2009 @ 3:09 pmBarack Obama joined a cadre of conservative commentators for a meal of lamb chops at the Chevy Chase, MD home of George F. Will. Also in attendance were David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan and William Kristol.
I’m sure that some other industrious little blogger out there came up with the above headline to describe Barack Obama’s dinner last night with conservative pundits, but surprisingly none of the big boys did. Here’s what they were talking about:
Chicago Sun-Times Washington Columnist Lynn Sweet offered an early blow-by-blow stakeout of the event, having done everything but wiretap George Will’s house:
“The PEOTUS departed Hay-Adams at 6:17 p.m. and at arrived at 6:34 p.m. at No. 9
Grafton St., Chevy Chase (right off the circle). Thanks to the good work of Hans
Nichols (of Bloomberg and “Daily Show” fame), Montgomery County property tax
records showed this is …
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