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Will Obama Save Liberalism?

By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Published: January 25, 2009

All good things must come to an end.  Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era.

[There follows a boring recitation of Kristol’s typically lame apologias for failed conservative policies, which I will omit as a public service.  And then the good part:]

This is William Kristol’s last column.

Most bad things come to an end as well.  Kristol’s NY Times column is now, happily, among them.  Good riddance to really bad rubbish.

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  1. Hear!

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    p>They let him linger too long. I don’t mind conservatives in the paper, but they have to be honest.

  2. From Crooksandliars:

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    Scott Horton has the inside scoop:
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    The problems that emerged were more fundamental. Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it. A give-away came in the form of four corrections the newspaper was forced to run over factual mistakes in the columns, creating an impression that they were rushed out without due diligence or attention to factual claims. A senior writer at Time magazine recounted to me a similar experience with Kristol following his stint in 2006-07. “His conservative ideas were cutting edge and influential,” I was told. “But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”

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