This is two clicks away from being the plot of Fatal Attraction. Or maybe Cape Fear. Or perhaps…a Nora Ephron movie??

Over news that the New York Times might be firing conservative columnist Bill Kristol, WaPo's Nora Ephron writes an annoyed love letter to her favorite hate-fuck.

Then Kristol's column began. I read it religiously every Monday. And slowly but surely, I became infatuated with him. How could I not? The man could not write his way out of a paper bag. His column was simply awful. Reading it was like watching someone dance on the head of a pin: his need to prove to his base that he hadn't gone over to the other side was so strong, his need to please his constituency was so moving, that I began to wish he would quit his job as editor of the Weekly Standard and become a Times columnist full-time. It was certainly not going to inconvenience him: the column couldn't have been taking him more than about twenty minutes to write. And it was great having him there, visible, so people like me could see what people like him were like. He was wrong about everything. It was such a comfort.

We see Meg Ryan in the role of Nora, and maybe Billy Crystal as Bill Bristol.