New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt dons the mantle of the New York Times readers unhinged by the hiring of Bill Kristol as a weekly op-ed columnist. Of Kristol’s repeated offenses against the Times’s worldview, Hoyt singles out the one that puts Kristol beyond the pale:
On Fox News Sunday on June 25, 2006, Kristol said,
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