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Snark of the Day: William Kristol
2008-04-14 15:48:00 But what has Barack Obama accomplished that entitles him to look down on his fellow Americans? William Kristol, New York Times. � Technorati Tags: Obama
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NYT on Obama: ?Can a liberal be a unifier?? Progressives: ?YES!?
2008-03-26 02:24:00 I’ve seen a lot of brain-crushingly stupid stuff coming out of the so-called “paper of record” in recent years, but this just takes the aneurysm-inducing cake: To achieve the change the country wants, he says, ?we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents and Republicans together to get things done.? But this promise leads, inevitably, to a question: Can such a majority be built and led by Mr. Obama, whose voting record was, by one ranking, the most liberal in the Senate last year? I love the fact that Robin Toner (or his/her editor) just threw in that “inevitably,” as if it’s just such a commonly accepted piece of wisdom that a liberal politician cannot possibly unify disparate points of view under their banner. It only gets better from there: Mr. Obama?s rise has been built in part on the idea that he represents a break from the established identities that have defined many o...
Buchanan, Kristol, Hannity and those ungrateful negroes: a banner month in
2008-03-25 16:50:00 I guess there’s probably nothing Earth-shattering about revelations that FOX News “journalist” Sean Hannity was BFFs with a white supremacist. I mean, even if you don’t expect it, it’s not the sort of information that’s going to turn your whole worldview upside-down, you know? But the latest screed from Pat Buchanan almost buckles the knees. We don’t exactly look to Pat for enlightened thinking on race or, well, on anything. But even by his standards these March 21 comments are barely to be believed. Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships...
William Kristol and the New York Times
2008-01-07 21:27:00 Bill Kristol is now an editorialist for The New York Times. While this may be the greatest business decision by the Times in the last decade, it still demonstrates how one-sided the Times? is. The only way to describe the Times is that its staff appears to write articles and editorials for themselves rather than the people actually reading the paper. This bias may not be intentional; but, there... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Still Clueless After All These Years
2008-01-07 06:46:00 We have the first instalment of Bloody Bill Kristol in the New York Times and yes he's still the same clueless Bill that said this: "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."~Willaim Kristol, April 4th, 2003The subject of his first column isn't wars for oil and Israel but Mike Huckabee. Now I never thought that Huckabee had a chance at the nomination but Kristol seems to be saying he thinks Huckabee might. Since Kristol is always wrong I guess I was right. He talks about why Huckabee is popular but since he never talks to anyone that isn't a multi-millionaire he gets it completely wrong. After the last two elections, featuring the well-born George Bush and Al Gore and John Kerry, Americans ? even Republicans! ? are ready for a likable regular guy. Hu...
The NY Times Hires Bill Kristol And The Left Goes Wild
2007-12-31 21:58:00 A day after the Huffington Post first reported it, The New York Times has announced that it has indeed hired conservative pundit, and Fox News analyst, Bill Kristol, as a new regular op-ed columnist. I’m not sure what prompted The Times to finally make an attempt to balance out their egregiously left-wing Op-Ed section, but ...
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William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen
2007-12-31 20:33:00 by Walter C. Uhler It was an offhand remark, in 1971, by a Penn State professor to his political science students, that prompted me to become a devoted reader, then decades-long subscriber, to the New York Times: "If you don't read the New York Times, you can't begin to know what's occurring in the U.S. and the world." Over the years, I found overwhelming evidence — much of it amusing and delightful — to support his claim, even as I suppressed my suspicions that the "Old Grey Lady" was pimping for a muscular U.S. presence around the world. For years I lived with the conceit that sophisticated people spent much of their weekend mornings reading Sunday's Times But, my-oh-my, how "Times" have changed! First, copy-cat journalism by Times' "wannabes" undermined the paper's claim to be the "paper of record." Subsequently, that reputation was further eroded - as was the general appeal of newspapers - by the emergenc...
William Kristol, failing upward
2007-12-30 23:35:00 Perversely, under George Bush Republican loyalists fail upward at astonishing rates. That’s no less true of their pundit class, none of whom are ever held accountable for manifest failures. In neocon circles especially, rank incompetence is held to be a mark of great distinction. Piling error upon error, the right-wing bloviator plunges hard up the ...
The upside of Kristol's new gig
2007-12-30 21:02:00 How can you tell if Bill Kristol is saying something that's just simply wrong? His lips are moving. "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."~Willaim Kristol, April 4th, 2003There has been a lot of outrage about William Kristol's new position at the NYT from both the left and the paleocon right. I see it as a good thing - he will have a wider audience. Yes even more people will be able to see what a bunch of dangerous lunatics the neocon "intellectuals" of the Republican party are. Kristol constantly beating the war drums in the NYT for a war weary nation to read may hurt the Republican Party in 2008. Is this in fact an almost Rovian plot on the part of the "liberal" NYT? Let him write!John Cole seems to agree: I guess there are two ways of looking a...
Have the lunatics lost?
2007-11-14 05:39:00 A couple of days ago Steve Soto said he thought an "Attack Against Iran Unlikely". CENTCOM commander, Admiral William Fallon, said it would be a really bad idea and the intelligence community is resisting demands from the Lunatic in Chief to cook the intelligence. In Harpers Scott Horton says he also feels the Roll-Out to an attack on Iran is Sputtering. Also we learn that Bush is distressed with Prime Minister Brown?s independence on the Iran issue. He wants the U.K. to be a faithful puppy and heel, adopting the servile stance already taken up by French President Sarkozy. But that doesn?t seem to be in the cards, as the Sunday Telegraph reported.Still, my sense this week is that the roll-out for attacks on Iran has, to the great distraction of its sponsors, not gained the sort of traction that they envisaged for it.In addition to the pushback from the intelligence community and the DOD Horton sees a couple of other factors. Oil PricesI noted earlier that a major G.O.P. linked think...
The alternate universe of Bill Kristol
2007-11-13 05:59:00 Just how strange is the alternate universe of Bill Kristol? He thinks that Joe Lieberman as the Vice Presidential Candidate would save the Republicans is 2008. Eunomia explains just how idiotic this is. What Kristol proposes is that nominating Lieberman would create the conditions for such a massive victory for the Republicans, when the woes of the latter are closely tied to the foreign policy decisions that constitute the chief reason why Kristol admires Lieberman and thinks he should be a VP nominee. In short, the very things that make Lieberman attractive to interventionists in the GOP are the things that make the rest of us want to run screaming from the room. Adding Lieberman to a ticket that already included a candidate who blathers about ?Islamofascism? or takes an ueber-hawkish line on Iran would be the closest thing to a deliberate act of self-destruction by a party that we would have ever seen.
David Petraeus - the partisan General?
2007-09-04 01:46:00 A few weeks ago I wrote the following over at The Gun Toting Liberal: To reach the rank of general you have to be part politician, it has always been that way. A good general is always a general first and a politician second. Those who had been generals first have over the last six years have been driven from the service by Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration. What we have left are men like General Petraeus. Not only a politician but a political hack. We know what he?s going to say in September because he said it all yesterday on wingnut radio, The Hugh Hewitt Show. On cue from Hugh he recited all the administration/neocon talking points. Glenn Greenwald does a good job of documenting how General Petraeus has been talking the neocon/administration talking points on Iraq from day one and not unlike William Kristol has been proven wrong over and over again. But in the media Petraeus is still sold as the brilliant saviour of Bush?s failed occupation of Iraq.Before General David...
Quote of the day
2007-08-26 06:34:00 But, in the end, a fake thug is not much better than the real thing."Steve Benen discussing Bill Kristol.
Perceptions
2007-08-06 18:40:00 The few remaining supporters of the invasion and occupation of Iraq are not only talking about mythological improvements in Iraq but of mythological changes in perception. Last week we had Lieberman camp "Democrats" Michael O?Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack told us how things are improving in Iraq and that we can still "win". Willaim Kristol tells us public opinion has turned based on the column by uber hawks O'Hanlon and Pollack. All three have been consistently wrong about all things Iraq from the beginning but still think we should listen to their "wisdom". Of course they fail to mention that Iraq is no closer to a political solution than it was three years ago and in fact the country is falling apart. Former war supporter Michael Ignatieff acknowledges that in the lead up to the invasion those who ?truly showed good judgment on Iraq? might have had no more information than those who got it wrong, but did not make the mistake of confusing ?wishes for reality.? All these years later i...
Unreconstructed Iraq Hawks
2007-08-05 18:34:00 Frank Rich takes on the Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death. The ranks of unreconstructed Iraq hawks are thinner than they used to be. Some politicians in both parties (John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Gordon Smith) and truculent pundits (Peter Beinart, Andrew Sullivan) who cheered on the war recanted (sooner in some cases than others), learned from their errors and moved on. One particularly eloquent mea culpa can be found in today?s New York Times Magazine, where the former war supporter Michael Ignatieff acknowledges that those who ?truly showed good judgment on Iraq? might have had no more information than those who got it wrong, but did not make the mistake of confusing ?wishes for reality.?But those who remain dug in are having none of that. Some of them are busily lashing out Korff-style. Some are melting down. Some are rewriting history. Most seem more interested in saving their own reputations than the American troops they ritualistically invoke to bludgeon the wars? critics and...
Why does anyone listen to Bill Kristol?
2007-08-04 22:45:00 "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."~Willaim Kristol, April 4th, 2003There may be people who have been wrong as often as Bill Kristol but there can't be anyone who has been wrong more often. Today we have this:The TurnDefeatists in retreat.The news from Iraq has been terrible this week. Even defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs nominee Navy Adm. Michael Mullen admitted that the Iraqis are no where near a functional government. But not the delusional and always wrong Bill Kristol - he thinks the tide has turned and in no time at all everyone will be behind his war. For the Iraq war's opponents, July began as a month of hope. It ended in retreat. It began with Democratic unity in proclaiming the inevitability of American...
Lefties my ass
2007-07-30 22:47:00 There is a lot of reaction to the pro-war propaganda piece by MICHAEL E. O?HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK in the NYT this morning. Of course the right blogosphere is beside itself. Dean Barnett asks If They've Lost Brookings? This of course is absurd - you can't lose something you never had. Hanlon and Pollack have mirrored William Kristol and Joe Lieberman for their support for the war and have been wrong just as often. These two "lefties" have as much credibility as Krislol, Lieberman and the Bush administration. A commentor at TMV asks the right question: Which again raises the question - how many times can you be completely wrong and still be considered credible?Of course their cheer leading was published on the same day the Iraqi Parliament started it's month long recess having accomplished nothing. BAGHDAD - Iraq?s parliament on Monday shrugged off U.S. criticism and adjourned for a month, as key lawmakers declared there was no point waiting any longer for the prime minister...
Wrong About Everything
2007-07-15 20:12:00 Bill Kristol, who has been wrong about everything the last few years breaks out his cracked Kristol Ball and tells us:Why Bush Will Be A Winner He demonstrates that he is just as divorced from reality as George Bush himself. I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one.Let's step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let's look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack on U.S. soil -- not something we could have taken for granted. Second, a strong economy -- also something that wasn't inevitable.And third, and most important, a war in Iraq that has been very difficult, but where -- despite some confusion engendered by an almost meaningless "benchmark" report last week -- we now seem to be on course to a successful outcome.It's fai...
Life in another Planet by William Kristol!
2007-07-15 20:11:00 by GEF @ 2:02 PM EDT Look who peeked out of the NeoCon Bubble! In William Kristol’s Planet, there’s no Civil War in Iraq.. But in OUR Planet Earth Sectarian Violence equals Civil War! Kristol: There is no Civil War in Iraq By: John Amato on Sunday, July 15th, 2007 at 10:45 AM - PDT William the Bloody ...
By: Suzie-Q
Why would anyone listen to this guy?
2007-07-09 23:35:00 From the man who brought you this bit of wisdom, Bill Kristol: "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."~Willaim Kristol, April 4th, 2003We have this: The best strategy for the president is to hold firm. There is every reason to believe that he can survive the current calamity-Janes of the Republican party (does anyone really imagine that a veto-proof majority will form in the Senate this week or next?). This nonsense will pass, Congress will go on recess, and Petraeus will have a chance to continue to produce results--and the president and his allies will have a chance to gain political ground here at home. Why on earth pull the plug now? Why give in to an insane, irrational panic that will destroy the Bush administration and most likely sweep the Rep... |
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