Open Letter to the New York Times, Which Has Lost Its Mind
To the Editors, the Publisher, the President, and the Rank and File (whose good name is besmirched):
I have heard that you have hired the utterly discredited neo-conservative William Kristol to write a weekly column. I am aghast at this decision: Mr. Kristol was one of the loudest voices agitating for war in Iraq, and at every turn he has been proven wrong. He was wrong about the weapons of mass destruction; he was wrong that our troops would be met as liberators; he was wrong about the cost of the war; he was wrong about the length of the war; he was wrong about Iraq’s stability; and he was wrong about Saddam Hussein’s ties to September 11. Thousands of American soldiers are dead and wounded because of Kristol’s errors, and thousands more maimed and psychotic. Why would you hire someone with this record? Wasn’t one Judy Miller enough?
Frankly, you would do better to hire me: even without Kristol’s pedigree or background, I was right about everything that he was wrong about. For that matter, my dog would be a better choice than Kristol for the op-ed page: he’ll work for kibble, and his scribbles would be every bit as informed as Kristol’s war-mongering, wrong-headed rants.
My girlfriend has been considering taking out a subscription to the New York Times, but upon hearing this news has decided that she will not waste her money on a newspaper that invests in such a dishonest writer.
For shame. We will be letting our friends and families know that the “paper of record” has decided to become “the paper of propaganda” and that they should spend their hard-earned dollars elsewhere.
Brendan Skwire
