Meet the NYT's Executive Editor: "Leftist, Elitist, Communist, Socialist" Bill Keller
The latest edition of the New York Times’s Sunday magazine gave conservatives a rare opportunity to repurpose Times Executive Editor Bill Keller as a pinata, though the paper’s intent may have been to make its conservative critics look irrational. Readers responded bluntly to Keller’s trashing of Sarah Palin in his column for the June 19 issue, in which he claimed “most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea” of a Palin presidency.
The Times printed a full page of letters, a dozen in all, from insulting Keller critics and Palin sympathizers. A few were incisive:
You write that only 21 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Sarah Palin. If you had the press constantly attacking you and putting you under the magnifying glass and all that was reported was negative press, perhaps no one would find favor with you, either. Had your fellow media colleagues given Barack Obama the same treatment as you have given Mrs. Palin, no one would care for him either.
Others were more, um, direct:
Are all you liberal pseudo-elite journalists really this stupid? Or have you all just deluded yourselves into thinking the American people are the stupid ones?
The print version of the magazine included an amusing graphic showing the “number of e-mails, from a total of 98 received by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, through June 26, in which he was called” various names. The tabulation:
an expletive: 21
a leftist: 8
an elitist: 6
a communist: 4
a socialist: 3
less intelligent than his daughter: 3
(Keller had noted in his column that he was surprised to hear his daughter call Sarah Palin “cool.”)
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What percentage of the
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:45am.
What percentage of the American people have a favorable view of the New York Times?
Well the circltation is negligiable, less than half a million from a population of 310 million.
So I guess 0.1% have a favorabkle view. That's about one tenth of one percent, for liberals.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
...and they are based in a city of 8 million+...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:38am.
...and can't even sell a million papers in their home town.
But you know what? They have more readers than MSNBC has viewers.
The rest of the world doesn't give a whoop.
Liberals...important to themselves.
Gee whiz!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:52am.
There are more people in our break room at work than there are MSNBC viewers. If they want to increase viewership, maybe they should have free coffee?
Maybe offer prizes that you have to watch to win.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 12:03pm.
If you are the 8th caller to the Ed Show's Prize Line, when we open the phones, you could win.....an autographed picture of President Obama...YEAH!
from filibuster proof to weak minority
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:54am.
Much is made of Sarah Palin's 'unpopularity' and 'ineluctability' but I would suggest that if obama had a serious challenger within the democrat party his support would utterly collapse among those who now defend him. The only thing to save the democrat party from ruination by obama is for the Republicans to win.
The challenger would have to be black
Submitted by Callawyn on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 2:20pm.
For awhile, I thought it likely that Obama would be like LBJ - declare he wouldn't run again. After all, his presidency has been an unmitigated disaster. If not, I figured the D's would find someone to primary him so they'd have a chance in the general election.
Then it occured to me that O could not possibly lose a Democratic Primary. No matter how absolute his failure is, he would still get 98% of the black vote in a primary. There's simply no way anyone could overcome that, unless they themselves were of the same race.
Any way you look at it, the plain fact is that African Americans tend to vote their race, by a huge percentage, over all other issues combined.
That's why I believe she can win.
Submitted by pbthinker on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:54am.
One of the reasons I believe Sarah Palin can win is because of people like Bill Keller. Right now, she has polling showing that, somewhere between 30% and 40% of the people support her. That is in spite of the negative press she's gotten from the time she made her convention speech. I believe that a majority of the people who do not support her, would be willing to listen to her and give her a chance, primarily because they believe the press has been very unfair to her.
There will always be the left wing of the Democratic Party who will give no one a chance, unless they another left wing loon, and she will never get them. There are few people who believe Obama could have stood up to the scrutiny Sarah Palin was given. I'd reverse that, if Sarah Palin was given the glowing press that Obama was given, they would have asked John McCain to retire,after being inaugurated, and would have crowned Sarah Palin queen of the United States.
So, for the next election, I believe that, as much as many people want their president to succeed, many people know the press never vetted Obama and many believe he wasn't ready. He's going to have to convince the independent voters he's learned enough, in 4 years, to deserve another 4 years. He can't do that by blaming Republicans, blaming Bush, or crying about the economy being worse than he thought it was. Given that, a Sarah Palin, who believes in the country and can sell that our greatness will overcome our problems, would certainly be a tough fight for Obama, especially given his record these past 4 years.
Not a bad argument
Submitted by rogue operator on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:49am.
There is definitely an anti-elitist undercurrent to this next election's dynamic. Michelle Bachmann is already tapping into this dynamic, by mentioning how the left caricatures those in the tea party as "hillbillies." If tea party minded candidates like Palin and Bachmann can convince the moderates and even some on the left that the Democrats are bullies, and the party's media proxies are bullying conservatives, and especially, conservative women, the candidates will both get sympathy and deflate the left's mobilization. The reason for this is that the left loves to imagine themselves as fighters for the underdog. We definitely need to tap that sentiment, or at least confuse them enough so that they are immobilized and apathetic in the next election round.
Tea Party score chart
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:11am.
Racist: n * 10^9
Angry: r * 10^9
Hateful: s * 10^9
Something offensive: t * 10^9
So of course the implication is that people who call the tea party names just reveal their bad character. It's funny because the left will tend to indicate "Oh, if I dump on Sarah Palin, I must be communist!" as a sort satire to the simple-minded-ness of that principle. But if we were to say "If I dump on Barack Obama, I must be racist." They'd say "yes" and wonder why it's even a stretch.
"Wait a second, if I am against the man who belongs to a party I least side with and least voted with the party that I normally side with, that could only be because I'm racist?" And the left has unblinkingly said "yes", and wondered how you could be so much a wingnut that you don't know something that simple.
You left out....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:54am.
comments denigrating our intellect.
The Journolist memo went out long ago, RE: Sarah Palin-
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:19am.
Keller and his socialist, leftist, elitist, communist, liberal comrades in the MSM have received their marching orders from George Soros on Palin: "Trash her at every turn. She can win!".
Liberals and the MSM are terrified of Palin because they know she's right and they know she can beat Obamao in a walk. A Bachmann/Palin ticket is just what we need.
~I don't think that Palin
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:24am.
will ever go for the VP slot again. Frankly, she'd be a fool to do it. And she's no fool.
~Well, if you ever wondered
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:28am.
just how many conservatives read the NYT, now you know. 98.
Doesn't really matter who is
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:58am.
Doesn't really matter who is running the NYTimes, It's still a waste of trees. I'm shur that they will be distorting the truth and twisting the news, the same as always.
People called Bill Keller names? Boo-hoo.
Submitted by lgeubank on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:00am.
Isn't that just PRECIOUS how the Times tabulated how many times people called Keller names! They're some master political polemicists, all right.
How many times have cretins like Bill Keller called Sarah Palin names? And they hate her as much for her integrity and character as anything else -- she shows them up for the mangy curs they are.
Just to be fair
Submitted by mandrake on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 12:27pm.
He published all those letters..It was his call..he didn't have too.So he doesn't like Sarah Palin..some others agree. And the NYT readership is just not confined to the US. I like it because it has the best crossword puzzle every week.
916,911 worldwide circulation NYTs
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 1:21pm.
Wall Street Journal 2,117,796
NYTs is ranked #53 in the world based on circulation.
Wall Street Journal, #18.
http://www.mondotimes.com/newspapers/worldtop100.html
Personal observation
Submitted by mandrake on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 1:30pm.
For a newspaper with such insignificant circulation, the NYTs sure does attract a lot of attention from this site. Why is that?
That's
Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 4:14pm.
Easy
the ny Times is ground zero of the degenerate left....it is an
Submitted by Paarl on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 7:35am.
intellectual leftover from the New Left 1960s which itself was an intellectual leftover from the anarchist
forment of the Paris Commune and the Bolshie Revolution.....
God How I despise the NY Times...though the Science Section on Tuesday is worth a look...
Paarl of Rhodesia
a scion of a Red family ala the way back to Bialystok in the 1890s....Oh I am so glad I discovered Ayn Rand and Von Mises when I was 18
Just to be fair
Submitted by blessed54 on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 3:24am.
The Atlantic has good puzzles too. At least, they used to. Haven't read it lately. Also, unless you read the Times or the Washington Post, you don't get much international news.
there are 1000s of places on the web for international news
Submitted by Paarl on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 7:39am.
also the Christian Science Monitor though I have not read it recently
Paarl of Rhodesia
Paarl on international news
Submitted by blessed54 on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 10:17am.
I'm sure you're right. Any one in particular you'd recommend?
Figuring out the media attacks on Mrs. Palin
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:16am.
Dr. sam Blumenfeld wrote this very ensightful piece on Palin that puts all this meda attack on her into a different light: the media is fearful of a Palin presidency.
PHD and education author Blumenfeld writes: "In the annals of American politics, I don’t believe that any congressman, governor, or president has been the subject of such relentless liberal or media hatred or criticism as Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska. It is a phenomenon that defies simple understanding or explanation. It can only mean that the left is so frightened of a Palin candidacy for president, that they will do and say anything that will turn the American people against her." read more here>>>
http://thenewamerican.com/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/7837-sarah-palins-emails
We now know the truth. The left wing media that hated...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:58am.
Sarah Palin, has now turned their focus of hate on Michele Bachmann. It was not Sarah Palin they hated. They hate all women who happen to be nice looking, intelligent, articulate, a threat to their power, and last, but not least, Conservative. P.S. It explains why the Maine twins (Snowe and Collins) get a free pass from the Liberal media. .
yep
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 12:37pm.
The Lefties feel they 'own' women just like they 'own' the Blacks. That's the reason Clarence Thomas is vilified to this day. He became an 'uppity' Black in the eyes of the Liberals and has been getting his whipping ever since his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Liberals/democrats can only compete nationally if they keep certain identity groups in line and women and Blacks are two of the most important. Any member of those two groups who commit apostasy by renouncing Liberal dogma will be hunted down and publicly punished.
Figuring out the media attacks on Mrs. Palin
Submitted by blessed54 on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 3:29am.
"In the annals of American politics, I don’t believe that any congressman, governor, or president has been the subject of such relentless liberal or media hatred or criticism as Sarah Palin"
Barry Goldwater, mebbe.
Keller is failing his mission.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:20am.
There are just too many NYT readers he cannot indoctrinate. Mission fail. -bidn-
The best part of articles is
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:24am.
The best part of articles is reading the comments. in 09 almost no comments were against Obama but now it is very hard to find any article including the Wash post and also NYT where the comments section even comes close to favoring Obama. To have the NYT publish them is quite interesting because they are completely ignoring the other articles which are constantly negative comments to Obama and also the paper itself.
The comments made in 09 were usually more thoughtful, long winded ones, now they are more likely to say Obama is a fraud, worst president ever and the writer gets 500 likes or approval to his comment.
In 09 Obama was defended at every turn, now the liberals sneak in write and leave.
I have never read the NY Times and I suspect I never...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:46am.
will. Some people think that is "narrow minded" of me not to read the premier newspaper in America. I say, "No it is not". Even though I don't read the NY Times directly, I read it indirectly whenever I read stuff from AP, Reuters, or watch ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNNHLN (or even when I read my home town newspaper).
There still may be some
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 12:29pm.
There still may be some 'hope' (I'm still apprehensive to use that word after Boy Barry has bastardized it!!!) for our youth, if Keller's daughter thinks that Palin is 'cool'.............I'm sure that drove him up a wall!!!
Everyone Sing Along...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 12:50pm.
..."Meet the New Boss".....