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Nicholas Kristof

• November 10 -- Bush’s “Brezhnevian Fondness for Secrecy”
In his outrage over journalists being pressed by prosecutors for their sources, Times columnist Nicholas Kristof compared prosecutors and the current administration to Soviet communists and “Iranian thugs.”

• November 8 -- No More Clarence Thomases!
Some advice for Democrats.

• September 22 -- "Compelling" Anti-Bush Charges vs. "Unsubstantiated" Swifties
Nicholas Kristof finds the Bush National Guard accusations compelling, but turns his nose up at the "unsubstantiated" Swift Boat vets.

• August 19 -- More Cheap Shots at Gun Owners from Kristof
Nicholas Kristof resorts to cheap, tiresome psychoanalyzing of gun-owners as self-doubting men who fire guns to make themselves feel more macho: "Assault weapons aren't necessary for any kind of hunting or target shooting, but they're popular because they can transform a suburban Walter Mitty into Rambo, for a lot less money than a Hummer."

• July 19 -- "Ethnic Cleansing Celebrated As the Height of Piety"
Nicholas Kristof's column is slightly less offensive than its title ("Jesus and Jihad") but it's close: "No, I don't think the readers of [the Christian apocalyptic novel] 'Glorious Appearing' will ram planes into buildings. But we did imprison thousands of Muslims here and abroad after 9/11, and ordinary Americans joined in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in part because of a lack of empathy for the prisoners."

• May 28 -- Sharon and Arafat, "Separated at Birth"
Columnist Nicholas Kristof lumps "right-wing jingoist" Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in with Yasir Arafat, snarling that both men share "a bloodstained obduracy, suggesting that they might as well have been twins separated at birth."

• May 24 -- Kristof's Anti-War "Scream" Fest
Nicholas Kristof sticks it to Bush and Rumsfeld: "Donald Rumsfeld has presided over the most foolish conflict since the War of Jenkins' Ear in the 18th century, and he is at the top of a military force that tortured prisoners. " Then he lashes out at the "neo-con ideologues who screamed for war."

• March 3 -- Marriage Defenders and the Return of George Wallace, Take 2
Another day, another Times columnist conflating traditional marriage supporters with anti-black racists.

• February 4 -- Bush's "Threats To Our Way of Life"
Nicholas Kristof claims Bush fiscal policy poses the real threat to the American way of life and applauds the fiscal conservatism of Bill Clinton.

• January 7 -- Jesus Christ, Big-Government Liberal
Nicholas Kristof takes Cheney, Dean and Bush to task for abuse and ignorance of religion--then cites Jesus to argue against Bush's tax cuts.

• December 3 -- Blasphemous to Oppose Gay Marriage
Columnist Nicholas Kristof declares: "To me, the blasphemy is not in those who want to share their lives with others of the same sex, but rather in anyone presumptuous enough to vilify that love."

• November 20 -- Iraqi Women Suffering Since Hussein Gone
Nicholas Kristof finds more downside to the liberation of Iraq: " A new report by the U.N. Population Fund offers a devastating portrait of the plight of Iraqi women since the war." Yet the current war isn't even mentioned directly in the actual report.

• July 16 -- Kristof’s Conspiratorial Sources
Columnist Nicholas Kristof pounces on the controversial sentence in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address concerning Saddam seeking uranium in Africa: “After I wrote a month ago about the Niger uranium hoax in the State of the Union address, a senior White House official chided me gently....” But Bush didn’t refer to Niger. Kristof also notes a group of “retired spooks” are calling for VP Cheney’s resignation without mentioning the group’s ties to a left-wing group and its suggestion the toppling of Saddam’s statute was a set-up.

• June 30 -- Bob Herbert, Living In Oblivion
Bob Herbert blames it all on Bush: “There's a reason those campaign millions keep coming and coming and coming [to Bush]. A Times article last week noted that the wealthiest 400 taxpayers accounted for more than 1 percent of all the income in the United States in 2000, more than double their share just eight years earlier.” But the Times article measures income inequality during 1992-2000. Who was president back then?

• June 27 -- Kristof’s All Ears In Iraq
Columnist Nicholas Kristof went to Iraq and is shocked to find some people there really like George Bush.

• June 20 -- Pentagon, Saddam --What’s the Diff?
Columnist Nicholas Kristof: “The Iraqis misused our prisoners for their propaganda purposes, and it hurts to find out that some American officials were misusing Private Lynch the same way.”

• May 30 -- Not So Fast, Mr. Kristof
Columnist Nicholas Kristof’s mocks what he considers the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Perhaps he should read yesterday’s Times story on germ laboratories.

• May 9 -- Time To Get Squeamish
Columnist Nicholas Kristof laments “some Americans get the willies when they see terms like ‘anal sex.’” But college girls with guns? Now that scares him.

• May 6 -- Touchy, Touchy
Times columnists Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof today both act hurt over critical mail from conservatives. If you can’t take the heat…

• April 15 -- Baghdad’s Useful Idiot
Nicholas Kristof’s column “The Stones of Baghdad” is even more disturbing now than it was in October: “Iraqis hate the United States government even more than they hate Saddam, and they are even more distrustful of America's intentions than Saddam's.” But why did Kristof bury his lead?