More Hot Air From Hot Air

The "New York Times" is endorsing John Kasich on the Republican side and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side.

A Chance to Reset the Republican Race:

The battle to be the Republican choice for president has been nasty, brutish and anything but short. The hope among some Republicans is that the Iowa caucuses on Monday and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9 will promote a candidate who can appeal to the half of their electorate that doesn’t support the two current front-runners.

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, though a distinct underdog, is the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race. And Mr. Kasich is no moderate. As governor, he’s gone after public-sector unions, fought to limit abortion rights and opposed same-sex marriage.

This endorsement seems to be very upsetting to Ed Morrisey, and it seems he must expel some hot air.

I think that he wanted them to endorse Jesus, as expelled here: Sunday reflection: Luke 4:21–30:

“Sunday Reflection” is a regular feature, looking at the specific readings used in today’s Mass in Catholic parishes around the world. The reflection represents only my own point of view, intended to help prepare myself for the Lord’s day and perhaps spark a meaningful discussion.

Love never fails. This is the message of the prophets; it is the message of the Gospels. Even in Nazareth, where repentance and introspection get discarded for anger and retribution, the light of Christ will lead people back to their faithful union with the Lord. God does not brood over injury or rejoice over wrongdoing but eternally hopes in our return to Him through our own free will, for our sake. That is the love, or caritas or agape, to which we are called, and which brings us closest to God.

A Question For The New York Times

Why do you publish Deborah Solomon?

Read The Wild Card first.

Then read Questions and Answers, in No Particular Order.

Freedom Of The Press?

From FBI Apologizes to Post, Times by Carrie Johnson:

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III apologized to two newspaper editors yesterday for what he said was a recently uncovered breach of their reporters' phone records in the course of a national security investigation nearly four years ago.

Mueller called the top editors at The Washington Post and the New York Times to express regret that agents had not followed proper procedures when they sought telephone records under a process that allowed them to bypass grand jury review in emergency cases.

The Justice Department's inspector general, who is reviewing the bureau's procedures in such cases, uncovered lapses that allowed FBI agents in 2004 to obtain telephone records of Post staff writer Ellen Nakashima, who was based in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the time. The FBI also obtained telephone records of an Indonesian researcher in the paper's Jakarta bureau, Natasha Tampubolon.

Read the rest here.

Painful Memories Of Chimpy McFlightsuit's Landing

From Happy Mission Accomplished Day by BooMan:

Greg Mitchell reminds us of the NYT's coverage of Chimpy McFlightsuit's aircraft carrier landing, five years ago today. It's painful reading, but nothing compares to reliving the MSNBC coverage, e.g., G. Gordon Liddy saying Bush’s parachute harness "makes the best of his manly characteristic."

More On Blogging Deaths

From Death by Blogging By Timothy Noah:

The editors of the New York Times have cooked up a novel punishment for reporters who write stories that have no apparent basis in fact. They publish them on Page One of the Sunday paper…

Death By Blogging

From In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop By Matt Richtel:

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

If I suddenly stop writing this blog perhaps you’ll know the reason why. However, two people dying in the last few months does not seem like a very scientific study to me. I think that I agree with PalMD that this is a Stupid news story.

Given it’s recent history for fake news, I think that I’m more concerned about the New York Times self-destructing than I am about some blogger somewhere self-destructing.

Wow! I Actually Agree With Brit Hume

Bill Kristol:

White women are a problem, that's, you know -- we all live with that.

Brit Hume:

Bill, for the record, I like white women.

Why did the New York Times hire Bill Kristol? They already have David Brooks. If they keep this up they will need to change their slogan to: “All the idiots that are fit to print”.