Letters to the Editor
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at least they have ...
a solid democrat in Paul Krugman who'll jump to Obama's defense.
Oh.
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Gee, Glenn -- the Rethug convention is not til ...
well, it hasn't happened yet, anyhow ... maybe there's still time for Robot Romney to pull a come-back! I assume that now that they've read Kristol's column, the party poohbahs are meeting even now to derail McCain and vindicate the Kristol Ball.
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Glenn ...
that is some quality snark .. Do the Op-ed'ers like Friedman .. Dowd and Kristol .. ever have their columns fact checked? .. or do they always get them printed as is .. no matter the drivel they write? ... is fact checking just for bloggers these days?
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It's an "opinion"
Facts be damned.
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Egypt Steve ...
your post made me laugh .. especially the last line .. the Kristol ball is right ... lol ... do you think "William the Bloody" will make one? .. he could go in business as a fortune teller .. LOL!!
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Bill Kristol lectures... a sexy rain predictions. old men grow old and wither. Kristol is naked. ugh.
Bill Kristol will be embarrassed if some day his "great journalistic" career ends.
In old age it's some time true.... a bedside nurse has to change soiled diapers.
Crossing the toes and fingers won't change Fate. Kristol might have a hissy.
Bill Kristol may say OUCH. YOU pull a little toe pinky. O we wee. Go home.
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Besides
Kristol said
I can't find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party's nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin.
That statement may very well be factually correct. You know, as if he said, "I can't find my ass in the dark even if I use both hands."
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AP knows where the "balance" is
We learned yesterday from AP that McCain's candidacy rests on a central assumption:
Despite an unpopular war, an uncertain economy and the GOP's beleaguered status, the country still leans more to the right than to the left.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/6l7b8j
In choosing Kristol, Rosenthal is just doing what he can to make sure that is a true statement. Anyone who happens to be close to believing that, however, need only look at the Mississippi House special election and the rally yesterday for Obama in Portland. Change is coming, and nothing Kristol or Rosenthal can do will prevent that. People are just too mad with where things are now and when they take the time to look at an individual election, the Republicans are coming off as Tom Davis described, a dog food that just can't be sold any more.
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The Right hates elitists
What better statement could the NYT make concerning balance than to hire Krystol to balance all its competent writers?
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But, y'see, Glenn...
...because Kristol is a respected journalist's kid, he's exempt from getting his facts right--or being fact-checked. As well, since he's on-board to provide "balance" (bwahahahahah!), the librul NYT editors don't want to look like they are censoring him or otherwise persecuting him because he's a conservative (hee.)
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I wish!
Obama was off in Noam Chomsky land. I might not have as many trepidations about him.
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A hope. metanoia. (annoying)
Maybe the hearse driver reads Op-Ed that Mr. Kristol scribbled and mouths on Fox?
The driver of the coffin drives @ 120 miles per hour and will hear from Bill Kristol. Dead?
Bill Kristol jumps from the coffin with a big sneeze to scream... `Oy! It's illegal to speed.
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I wonder.....
....if John Stewart bothers to actually read what Kristol writes. Maybe I should send this blog and the NYT op-ed to him in an email so he can use it the next time he has Kristol on his show. For being what appears to be the utter antithesis of all that the Daily Show is made of, Kristol is never properly skewered by Stewart the way he should.
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What about Dem Primaries?
Obama beat Clinton by 48% in Kansas, 50% in Idaho, 51% in DC, 52% in Hawaii, and a whopping 63% in Idaho. So by Kristol's logic, NEITHER candidate can win the primary, since both were beaten by more than 41%.
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Bamage does have a good point.
Kristol didn't say such a defeat had not happened before. He just said he couldn't find a recent example of one. How can we expect a brain that so carefully filters reality to be able to carry out a task that actually involves real research that could take at least two minutes with teh Google?
Maybe the Times could hire Colbert's writers to provide some hot links embedded in Kristol's columns online so that interpretations of what Kristol is saying can be accessed along the lines of "The Word" feature on Colbert's show.
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Diversity and Bipartisanship
'Diversity' in op-eds is like 'bipartisanship' in Congress.
They're both all about the myths of the stifling liberal hegemony and the need to 'balance it out'.
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Thinkprogress people are having a bunch of fun with Kristol...
Here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/19/kristol-primaries/#comments
Best observation is that even with Obama's thumpin' in WV, he still pulled in more primary votes than McCain did.
91,663 to 89,654 apparently.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/WV-R.phtml
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@Intercooler
I am having my doubts about Jon Stewart since viewing part of his recent interview with Feith. He did not even come close to asking very tough questions or getting answers to the ones he asked. I realize a lot of people think he did; how could they if they saw the same interview? Maybe that was the price of getting him on the show, or maybe not. Feith has a book to sell and needs publicity.
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We need a photo of Bill Kristol
Show the high school senior year book one?
Show where he's so obsessive-compulsive.
The one where he stands in a janitor closet?
The one, in my opinion, is the photo of mops.
He is full of embarrassment. Staring at mops.
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What can one say...?
One shouldn't have to respond to drivel such as this. As Father Stephen at my school, St Anselm's, used to pronounce..."I'm speechless...and furthermore..."
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Or,
Show the photo where he's screaming.
He is jutting from the NYT's mental ward.
He has a fake black Afro and a pick in his hair.
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He may be an easy target...
... but you sure know how to whack him with finesse, Glenn.
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Help!
I can't find my socks. What? They're on my feet? How was I supposed to know? Can I write a column for a major U.S. newspaper?
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What were they thinking, newspaper edition
You have to wonder if the NYT isn't suffering from the same panic as the RIAA. What are we doing wrong? Where is our business going? Is it a paradigm shift? Etc., etc.
Predictably, the RIAA declares war on its customers, and the NYT, confused about who its customers actually are, hires panderers who target people who've never read the NYT. It reminds me of GM in its heyday -- if the fenders fall off, we'll increase the advertising budget. If that doesn't work, we'll blame the unions.
And how did that work out? Pardon me for believing that Kristol at the NYT, or Krauthammer at the WaPo won't work out any better. In the meantime, if I were Sulzberger, I wouldn't leave the house without my Groucho glasses and a trenchcoat.