The NYT Op-Ed Page: A Subjective Assessment

The New York Time columnists: whether you love them or hate them they are hard to get away from. Nah, Nope, Not Quite thinks the Times Op-Ed page has grown a “little stale.” We’re not so sure we think it’s “stale” so much as predictable: Rich hearts Obama; Dowd hates successful married women, Friedman is: flat world, India, China; Gail Collins is: genius. Also, every once in a blue moon David Brooks hits a home run, as he did last week with his column “The Two Obamas.”

Anyway, in order to get a better understanding of where this “staleness” originates NNNQ decided to “rank the columnists who regularly appear there,” (who is Charles Blow, by the way?) Somehow the fact that MoDo is “kind of hot for an older broad” contributes to her number three position. Gail Collins is number two. Bill Kristol, not surprisingly, is bottom of the barrel. And Frank Rich gets top spot, even though in our opinion he started to show signs of having consumed an excess of Obama kool-aid a few months back. Find the whole list here. And bring on Matt Taibbi!

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