Letters to the Editor
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A random computer generated pundit would be right more often
Kristol's always wrong yet his stock continues to rise. If only the GOP's economic policies succeeded the way their pundit allies do!
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OMG
"If a white minister had said the things that Wright had said, that 9/11 was chickens coming home to roost, that Israel is a dirty word, that the U.S. government launched the AIDS virus on the country, wouldn't we be pretty appalled or at least raise questions about a white candidate who had made that minister one of his closest advisors and confidants over the last 15 or 20 years?"
Somebody get Kristol a mash up of Hagee, for God's sake!
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Kristol,
Kristol has all of the prescient punditting skills of a pickle. A stupid and sour pickle at that. Does anybody really LIKE to be conned by the top neo-conner in the country?
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Kristol has made
a career and scads of money off of telling people lies that they want to hear. That's why his being wrong doesn't ever matter. Why should he stop now?
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You've Got To Be Kidding Red Snapper!
"If a white minister had said the things that Wright had said, that 9/11 was chickens coming home to roost, that Israel is a dirty word, that the U.S. government launched the AIDS virus on the country, wouldn't we be pretty appalled or at least raise questions about a white candidate who had made that minister one of his closest advisors and confidants over the last 15 or 20 years?"
Prominent white ministers say this all the time and still get invited to the White House and endorse campaigns. Please recall Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and countless others saying that 9-11 and Katrina are the fault of unrepentent citizens and Gays. Yet they are still called upon to be spokesman for conservative society and welcome at political functions. As per John Mccain he actively sought the endorsement of these people dispite knowing what they have said in the very recent past. So please, get real! The outrage of all people who have their panties in a twist over Obama's pastor while giving the others a pass is ludicrous.
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Crazy Stuff
White ministers like Hagee and bat-crzay guys like Bill Kristol's father say nutty things all the time -- Katrina is God's wrath for abortion and gay sex, for example, and Iran must be bombed now -- and get away with it all the time. Indeed, they are held up as patriots.
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Right wing ministers did say 9-11 was the "Chickens coming home to roost"
They blamed it on the fags, and abortionists, and degenerates so it was OK.
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@ wysiwyg
A random computer generated pundit would be right more often
I love it. But in my mind, the pundit comes out looking like Max Headroom. Who, by the way, looks a lot like Tony Snow.
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Metanews
Why are all these stories about how news is reported and not about the actual news? Why is the War Room now not about covering the political news, but coving how it is covered? Can't we do better than dwell on the piece of work that is Bill Kristol?
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@ Stewsburntmonkey
Maybe because so much "news" is bullshit? Kristol is an archetypal example of the propagandists that are handsomely rewarded for lying, never seem to be held to account for said dishonesty, other than being given more platforms from which to spout even more bullshit. The Times, rather than learning any lesson from their employment of Judy Miller, has compounded their complicity in this administrations crimes by hiring one their preferred spokesliars.
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@Strangely Enough
But does putting him in the spot light like this really help that. He is only successful because he is given so much attention. If people just wrote these people off and stopped with the soap opera fascination with how ridiculous they can be theses guys wouldn't have nearly as much influence. Kristol gets hired by people like the Times because he can bring readers. People will read the opinion section just to see what trash he says next. That's not a healthy way to operate.
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Kristol is such a dillweed
Let's start a betting pool on when The New York Times gives him the boot.
My guess is July 27, 2008.
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Wow.
Saw the speech in it's entirety. Some will, no doubt, dismiss it as nothing more than pretty words. But I have never in my life witnessed a political speech as clearheaded and sophisticated as this one. For those of you who watched West Wing and wished Jed Bartlett were really the president, this speech -- this man -- is for you. I hope that characterization doesn't trivialize the importance of this event.
Complexity in public discourse is not a vice. Obama showed us that today. I hope we can all see past the eloquence of the man and embrace the meaning of his words. Here is a presidential candidate who is, yes, ambitious -- in the best sense of the word. He is ambitious for his country, not just himself.
I beg all of you to watch the speech with clear eyes and ears -- to understand that he did not choose to reject a troublesome part of his life in the name of political expedience. He embraced a sometimes-wrongheaded man as "family", then proceeded to tell him where he was wrong. And in doing so, he respected all of us enough to think that we might see past the soundbite to the larger issues.
This man should be President.
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Kristol
Why does this man still have a job? He and Chris Matthews desperately need to retire and turn the reins over to people who are younger and smarter.
Diana Witt
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Diana W.
Why does this man still have a job? He and Chris Matthews desperately need to retire and turn the reins over to people who are younger and smarter.
What? Bill's not stupid. He doesn't spew this nonsense because he doesn't know (or suspect) the truth! He lies because it benefits him to do so. And since the only people who ever call him on his lies and errors and misstatements are dirty hippies, who cares what they think? They're not serious, important, respectable people, so Bill (and the NYT, regrettably ) couldn't care less.
He just says whatever he wants, because he can. Same as Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and all of them really.