I canceled my subscription to the Times in response to Kristol's hiring. You are absolutely right that Rosenthal does not understand the outrage. In fact, I got an email reply from the Times indicating that people who objected to hearing other, legitimate, views needed to be schooled in democracy. This after Kristol publicly crowed about his delight that his hiring was causing "liberal's heads to explode." There's journalistic integrity for you.

In my response to the condescending response from the Times, I pointed out that they were not getting the big picture. This is an economic decision for me and I could care less what their editorial preferences are. I have limited money to spend on periodicals. I don't subscribe to the National Review, Commentary or skinhead publications because it would be a waste of my money to financially support views I know I will find repugnant. Bill Kristol is in the same boat. If they wanted to publish ad hoc pieces from him on their OpEd pages, that is one thing, but they HIRED him to spew his nonsense on a regular basis. This is not editorial "integrity" as far as I'm concerned. It is editorial dysfunction--a creepy need to placate and fawn over an abusive person. The entire transcript of my communication with the Times on this topic is available on my blog: http://mickeymusing.vox.com/