NATHAN THRALL - JOURNALIST?

Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins have an op-ed hit piece on Obama in the NY Times, "Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed" and Thrall is described as a journalist. I looked in Google News and didn't find much by him but I did find his website and he has a total of 9 articles since 9/29/2006, not exactly the record of someone who's supporting himself as a journalist.