Joan Walsh gets righteously indignant over a wingnut welfare agency giving former New York Times columnist William Kristol $250,000 worth of wingnut welfare.
For obvious reasons, libs find Kristol an easy target. His “what, me worry” mug, his consistent failure to be correct about anything, his cloying presence in the national press — all these traits make him a living, breathing embodiment of right-wing hubris and nepotism. But in monitoring his NYT output, I couldn’t get over the fact that regardless of everything else, his columns were just boring. His prose is breezy and he has nothing interesting to say. His presence on Fox just compounds the droning background noise that is cable news’s main product.
It’s like getting upset at Kenny G — that is, if Kenny G were advocating extrajudicial rendition and torture for Grover Washington, Jr. and David Sanborn.
