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Because my brain is strange sometimes, I wrote a short story from the close 3rd person POV of a David Brooks-like character. It contains a theory as to the rationale behind the hiring of a Bret Stephens-like character. I think it may just be true, even though I made it up. 
If punditry were a test of accuracy or ability to genuinely illuminate the present, Brooks and Stephens would've been fired for cause long ago. Instead, they have total job security because if they were let go, they'd claim they were victims of the PC mob. What a grift.
So Brooks & Stephens aren't going anywhere, but maybe, just maybe the editors at the Times will read some of these critiques and do their jobs at pushing their contributors to produce better work. I don't have a tone of hope, but the odds are better than them getting fired.
Bill Kristol was actually fired (sorry, left in a mutual decision) from the Times, for being a terrible hack as a columnist, but that was a different time. Stephens proved his hack chops with his very first column, so clearly this I no longer a problem. nytimes.com/2009/01/27/bus…
