Liberals are deathly scared of a conservative voice in the MSM…

Not sure if you have heard, but conservative writer and editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, is joining the NY Times weekly column.

Of course, the libs have lost it. From canceling subscriptions to organized boycotts, to claims that the Times has been hijacked by neo-cons, the fascist libs just love “free speech”, don’t they? Why are they so afraid of opposing viewpoints? A great example of this facsist mindest is their deep hatred for the ONE cable news network that doesn’t regurgitate leftist ideals: Foxnews.

Their monopoly of Lib writers at the Times has give a real advantage to the opinion that goes out to the largest subscribed newspaper in the country, and the fact that ONE conservative writer gets ONE column a week (not every day) just shows how fascist liberalism really is. ANY opposing viewpoints are demonized as “extreme” or “radical” and thus not allowed in the arena. The left has despicably gone so far away from old school liberalism which used to have some meaning of American values, tradition and identity. It has now become a cesspool of socialist, radical, leftist, marxist, lenninist, globalist ideology that wreaks havoc on our schools, newspapers, universities and mainstream media.

From the Politico:

The New York Times’ hiring of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to write for its op-ed page caused a frenzy in the liberal blogosphere Friday night, with threats of canceling subscriptions and claims that the Gray Lady had been hijacked by neo-cons

But Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal sees things differently.

Rosenthal told Politico shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand “this weird fear of opposing views.”

“The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing,” Rosenthal added. “How intolerant is that?”

Kristol, whose strident support of President Bush and the war in Iraq remains a source of consternation among liberals, took pride in the reaction on the Huffington Post, where the news first broke.

“I was flattered watching blogosphere heads explode,” Kristol told Politico. “It was kind of amusing.”

Sista Toldjah: “Gosh, he’s just now figuring out the left’s touting the virtue of their “tolerance” is all a big farce?”

Ed Morissey also weighs in:

Oh, my stars and garters! The Times will have two conservative columnists — or in terms of quantity, one and a half! How can the Left hope to compete — with Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich, and Nicholas Kristof?

I have to admit that I find the controversy refreshing. It’s good to see the progressives admit that a half of Bill Kristol outweighs the five liberal commentators at the Gray Lady. It also shows, as Rosenthal notes, the rhetorical intolerance that many progressives display on a fairly regular basis. When they cancel subscriptions to the one national newspaper most amenable to their politics simply because it allows one competing opinion to appear, that says something about their insecurity.