Meet the NY Times' New Rightwing Columnist, Ross Douthat >

[Stephanie]

From the Village Voice:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/ross_douthat_new_times_rightwing_columnist.php

Ross Douthat New Times Rightwing Columnist
Posted by Roy Edroso at 5:03 PM, March 11, 2009

To replace departed token overt conservative Billy Kristol, the New York Times has engaged rightblogger Ross Douthat of the The Atlantic. A colleagues kvells; the Times seems excited at how young their new columnist is (Only 29! Why, Scotty Reston was still a copy-boy at 29!) Douthat's old archives athttp://www.theamericanscene.com/"> The American Scene, the publisher of his most hilarious material, appear to be scrubbed, but to get a sense of what you Times readers in for, here are some of his available greatest hits:

Douthat complains that liberal novelists won't write about Republican heroes ("It suggests that there aren't any interesting Republicans in our fiction not because Republicans aren't interesting, but because our intelligentsia's political prejudices blind them...").

Douthat explains why he would vote for Diaperepublican David Vitter before he'd vote for Barack Obama ("Regretting the passing of a particular moral standard does not require one to always vote as if that standard were still in place").

Douthat reasons that even sex-and-swears-soaked TV shows like The Sopranos are really conservative and evangelicals should watch them ("it's clear that Lost ultimately shares with Battlestar Galactica a certain degree of cosmic optimism").

Douthat bemoans the moral hazard posed by Jennifer Aniston's waxed pubic hair ("As with breast implants, it's another instance of modern women taking their sexual cues from pornography...").

Douthat philosophizes on why, in his experience, women "have a certain amount of difficulty having orgasms."

We could do this all day, but don't want to spend another minute reviewing Douthat's work. (Oh, okay, one more: here's Douthat begging somebody to dig up another Bill Clinton sex scandal.) In short, he's a little crazier than Kristol, not to mention much more Jesus-y, and his appointment will probably have the same galvanic effect on our culture as Michael Steele's historic election to chairman of the RNC.

[annabanana]

1. Well. . I, for one, Douthat I will be spending much time reading his stuff..

I've heard it all before, ad nauseum, for the last 8 years.

[Stephanie]

2. Complains that "liberal novelists won't write about Republican heroes"

Ha ha ha ha ha! I do hope he follows that theme at the Times.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. why, in his experience, women "have a certain amount of difficulty having orgasms."

Because he's a lousy lover?

:rofl:

[Stephanie]

13. No! It's biological predetermination!

Evolution has stacked the deck against Douthat getting laid.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. The blind wisdom of a Darwinian universe...

the invisible hand holding up an invisible finger...

[Mist]

4. Crazier than Kristol??!! Say it ain't so. Does what's left of the NYT readership really want

to read this regurgitator of Rethug crap?

And Douthat will most likely be referred to as "Douch-hat."

[Stephanie]

11. I'll resubscribe when they fire David Brooks

Maybe

[rurallib]

5. looks like he missed an opportunity to be a premiere woman's doctor

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hard to believe that the NYT could find another hypocritical white guy to be a conservative blogger. They are such a rare breed.

[blogslut]

6. He sounds like a real peach

Too bad about the females orgasms, Douthat. I'm afraid it isn't as complicated as you'd like it to be.

[Still Sensible]

7. Well I guess the Times had to find a new douche bag

to replace the old douche bag... glad to see he's on top of the Jennifer Aniston pubic hair controversy. Of course I am sure he is an expert on pornography.

[Captain Hilts]

8. By using terms associated with women to insult a man you're being just as sexist as he is. nt

[dionysus]

16. are you kidding me? FFS, are you the captain of the imaginary sexism police now?

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

20. A man defining sexism against women is like whites defining what blacks should consider racist. nt

[dionysus]

25. ok, i am not trying to argue here, but can you explain where you disagree with my reasoning on this

okay, if you're a like a rapper or someone, who uses the word bitch to refer to *all* women, obviously thats sexist.

most people using that word use it in a binary sense, for example a mean or evil woman would be one, but a nice woman would not be.

even most of women i have met have used that word in one way or another, doesthat mean they are sexist?

so if for example, someone calls sarah palin a beyotch, and they obviously think you're okay, how can that possibly be an insult directed at *you*?

with that reasoning, if i were to call another guy a dickhead or a prick, would that make me sexist against men?

[dionysus]

27. guess you can't

:shrug:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. A "douche bag" is an inanimate object.

What, in French is the noun feminine or something?

[kestrel91316]

9. I'm gonna make a wild-assed guess here:

Mr. Douthat was lovingly homeschooled to christofascist standards and then got whatever pathetic college education he has at Liberty "University" or another like it.

[glinda]

10. And so begins the dismantling of the NY Times just like the Minneapolis paper

[Stephanie]

24. Gee, I thought the dismantling began with Judith Miller

Where is she these days I wonder?

[el_bryanto]

12. Heroically doing nothing

I read an article a couple of years ago about conservative comedy vs. liberal drama. It basically said that drama had a liberal bias, because liberals look at a problem and say "Hummm, let's figure out a way to fix this." That makes for dramatic momentum; it gives characters something to do. On the other hand a conservative looks at a problem and says "Any attempt to fix the problem will probably make things worse, particularly if the government gets involved."

The other side is that Conservatives tend to be more funny because they have to laugh at the discrepencies between the way things should be and the way things are.

Not sure I buy the argument in totality, but I do kind of buy the first part; a conservative West Wing just wouldn't work.

Bryant

[Stephanie]

14. I love when they complain about liberal bias in novels and film

If they want conservative heroes in literature, why don't they write them? Oh, that's right, they CAN'T.

[11 Bravo]

15. Douthat wonders why women "have a certain amount of difficulty having orgasms"?

Perhaps it's just the women who are with you, Ross. Here's a hot flash for you, Sparky. A three-inch dick that pops during foreplay will leave most sexually mature women less than satisfied.

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. "A three-inch dick that pops during foreplay"

Good one.

:toast:

[Octafish]

19. Pronounced ''DOUBT-that''?

What a turd.

[Javaman]

21. another brilliant move by the NYT in their race to the bottom. nt

[ProgressiveFool]

22. Do I get to be the first to dub him Ross Asshat?

Or is it pronouned as th instead of a t and then an h?

[Stephanie]

23. Somebody beat you to it

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22ross+asshat%22&btnG=Search