Reply #4: Talk about an excellent article! [View All]

[BurtWorm]

The one you linked to is hilarious and dead on! (Welcome to DU, by the way. :toast: )


<<As part of an experiment to see if anybody can read the New York Times more than three times a month without developing brain cancer, I occasionally read the column of Nicholas D. Kristof. I should know better. Modest, learned, and brimming with virtue, a man whose words and accomplishments unblushingly suggest the Christ on one of His better days, Kristof makes me sick. I shouldn't have been shocked by his column of June 30, 2004, entitled "Calling Bush A Liar". Kristof is the kind of guy who goes off to do a story on prostitution in Cambodia and just can't help himself, he has to buy a couple of girls and set them free while a Times photographer discreetly records the event. What a noble thing to do! How human, yet how godlike! I'm sure he sent the girls through college, too. Or maybe they were stoned to death as soon as he got on his plane. He doesn't say. The point is, here's a guy who knows in his heart that he's really virtuous, and seeing as moderation is one of his many strengths, he's going to moderate his readers senseless. He never scolds, mind you. Just gently sets a better example, a sad, slightly patronizing smile on his lips. Did you ever rescue a Cambodian prostitute? Speaking of which, back to "Calling Bush A Liar".>>