Brooks, Dowd, Freidman are the MTP roundtable.

[tgnyc]

How much did the Times pay NBC for this blatant PR stunt?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Timmy even mentioned at the beginning of the show that their columns

cost money online.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. LOL

[Stephanie]

3. Exactly what I was thinking

Times Select - Buy Now!

[gumby]

4. They remind me of the Three Stooges

I won't pay to read any of them.

Moe, Larry, cheese.

[Mass]

5. The epitomy of why the NYTimes is having problems.

Three editorialists that never go out of Washington and the Belway and are repeating the most common platitudes.

Please give us Krugman and Hebert, the two only relevant NYTimes columnists.

[Elidor]

6. Don't forget Frank Rich!

I love that guy.

[Mass]

7. He is fairly good too, I agree.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. I have been noticing for the last couple of years how Tom Friedman

has been going through a sea change. Prior to the war he was as much of a cheerleader as Judith Miller, and then he started to open his eyes more and more. He still has a long way to go, but even small steps are important.

Maureen Dowd was Maureen Dowd! As witty and to the point as she always is.

David Brooks, trying harder and harder to apologize for the shrub and it just doesn't play.

[charlie]

12. No, no sea change for Friedman

The weasel doesn't want to be stained with the shitbaby he helped create, so he's in "they dunnit wrong" mode. It's about covering his ass, not about how he was and still is wrong.

[slaveplanet]

9. You can't fault The NYT

for putting Maureen Dowd on MTP for playtime.

She just referred to shrub as Al Roker....it was priceless

[Mass]

11. Sure she is witty, but does she know there is a real world outside of DC

Sometimes, she looks as clueless as politicians and even more (at least pols have to go in their states once in a while).

[Ilsa]

10. Tom Friedman's writing or comment about how 9-11 gave the Administration

a free pass was out of line. There were plenty of people who weren't giving them a free pass, and all they had to do was examine the facts.

The MSM gave the Bush* Admin a free pass, Friedman, you a-hole.

[bluedawg12]

13. Dowd is consistent

At least Dowd is consistent on exposing the shrub family tree and a vocal critic of this administration.

Friedman is an idiot who shills his egg head book extolling globalization and a one world order society. This neconnie thinks we can replace our out sourced blue collar working class manufacturing jobs, textiles work,, heavy industry, and farming by teaching the next generation to learn how to be internet search engine engineers. Yea, if those jobs aren’t outsourced to Bophal how many will actually be available to employ a large work force? Too few, and only for a small percentage elite.

Brooks is a self admitted conservative who now has to apologize for the right wing radical he helped get elected who is now crapping on conservative ideas like fiscal responsibility and small government.


More painful is listening to the Reverand "Praise the Lord" "Freedom of religion and not freedom from religion," Joe Lieberman, now on Wolf Blitzer.