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Monday, May 19, 2008 12:00 AM

The NYT's latest Kristol embarrassment

Their newest Op-Ed writer makes yet another sloppy, factually false claim in service of his trite partisan agenda.

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  • Monday, May 19, 2008 09:59 PM

    @Rowan

    A couple things:

    On your technical issue -- I'm also not having the problems you're having, but like WT I'm a paid subscriber, so that may have something to do with it. You also might be getting things stateside subscribers are not, i.e. Undertone or whomever might have rights to market inside a certain geographic area only. In that case, you might want to visit their site and try to find some way to remove yourself from their lists. Beyond this, I think with WT's advice you've gotten the best you can get remotely.

    On the issues of American politics --- something I wanted to say in the previous thread, like WT I can see you put a lot of thought into your posts, and a lot of energy (like wading through all those WaPo comments!) and I also enjoy the fresh perspective you bring to these discussions.

    With regard to various aspects of American politics and political culture, I hope you'll think of us as something like your informants, i.e. we might disagree about what you hypothesize, but it's a disagreement in good faith that might be beneficial, rather than a challenge to your intellect or competence in coming up with a perfectly reasonably hypothesis which could be improved upon by some response from the field. Like you're the 'chief investigator' and we're your field agents. Is that helpful at all ... ?

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