Always Wrong...And Now Out Of A Job
It may be storming outside, but I'm definitely feeling sunshine breaking through some neo-con clouds..
Two conservative Time magazine columnists are on their way out the door: Neither William Kristol nor longtime contributor Charles Krauthammer will be on contract with the magazine starting next month. Mr. Krauthammer confirmed the news to Off the Record, and a spokeswoman for Time said Mr. Kristol's contract would not be renewed.
The exact reasons for the departures of Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Kristol, both high-profile backers of the Iraq war, are not entirely clear.
But sadly, we're not completely rid of rightwing hackery at Time:
And according to two sources familiar with the discussions, Time is in negotiations with National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru to sign him to a contributor contract. Mr. Ponnuru, who in 2006 published The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, has written twice for the magazine over the past month.
Good riddance. Though I'm sure they'll be picked up somewhere in Murdoch's news empire.
YAAAAYYY!!
Hit the road jack.....ass.
Sadly, there will always be a room for both these bozos on the talking head shows. Because nothing qualifies one to opine on Middle Eastern affairs more than having been consistently wrong about the Iraq war.
How sweet it is. Abientot, guys.
Kristols mouth gives me the fucking creeps.
So they hired the little girl Ponoru? That should be fun.
Both Krauthammer and Kristol are already regular members of Brit Hume's All-Star Panel on Fox News. Look for them to either join Barnes and Kondrake on the Beltway Boys or get a show of their own.
The PEP Squad (Perpetually Erroneous Pundits) is still in full effect. This is likely a strategic retreat to fortify their positions.
Hard to believe somebody with sense enough to dump these guys would pick up Ponnuru. Sounds like there are some warring factions over at Time.
Oh my god will they lose their health insurance?
It's as bad as Newsweek picking up Karl Rove for contributions
I can't stand to even look at Krautkrammer, the essence of ugly. Not just physical but his demeanor too.
Jaz @ 7:
Those words couldn't be more true. Ponnuru DOES come across like a little girl.
just take a look at these evil goons fucking heads and tell me they don't need an overdose of preparation h ........... that would solve their and everyone else's problem
They should both get in with Limbaugh....What a TRIO (or 3-way) that would make!
Bonkers @ 2:
Actually, I don't know what I am excited about; TIME is still a rag.
Still... at least it sends a nice message to two morons: your services are no longer needed.
Krauthhammer = that horrible kid in your social studies class in high school that came from a rich family and was always going "yes, but my dad says that all taxes are bad . . ."
Kristol = Slappable
I'll take it! But I still don't think I'll be getting that subscription, just yet.
Fear not. The Wingnut Welfare Queen Network will make sure these bloodless robots will never actually have to work for a living.
I see slight indications that the tide is beginning to turn aways from the craziness of the past few years. Neocons are losing their audiences. Everyone's heard it already and since most of what they had to say wasn't true, who needs to hear it again?
Oh, they have nothing to worry about. Isreal will continue to send them money to influence American politics. And then the Sunday morning talking heads will always have work for them, but then again, haven't seen much of Newt Gingrich lately.
They won't be missed.
Na na na na. Na na na na. Hey Hey Hey. GOOD BYE!
Replacing two shills for one. Net benefit = zero gain in useful information/opinion.
The moral yet again is that "expert opinion" has little to do with qualifications or even whether you are correct, but on your connections. That tells me enough about how things operate at TIME.
Ramesh Ponnuru? That done sound like one of them thar tare-ists we's fightin' over there!
Where do you think these bad pennies will turn up to spew hate and misinformation next?
Time Magazine? I haven't read Time Magazine in 30 years. But don't worry. These two crapheads will be picked up by another print outlet quicker than you can say george bush is a no-good, drunken, cocaine-snorting, lyin' sonofabitch.
Mr. Ponnuru is well set up indeed to carry on the mantle of retarded, unfounded, infantile douchebaggery.
OMG - I had to view the Jon Stewart video to refresh my memory as to who is Ramesh Ponnuru.
Ramesh is an idiot. Maybe Time wants to encourage more letters to the editor reminding the readers about how stupid Ramesh is. The bomb Iran gang must be starting to become boring and need replacement.
krauthammer quotes.
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/charles_krauthammer/
still, this IS great news! it really is! I wish that translated into a general surge toward rationality, but it does feel better and better the more I think about it.
Time should replace them with stopped clocks. They're just as predictable, but at least they're right twice a day.
Not to pick on someone for how they look... But Krauthammer is possibly the dumbest-looking human on the planet. His headshot looks like an Onion spoof picture. He's the living embodiment of Stupidity.
Rumors abound that these two are teaming up to write about their lives as Washington insiders.
The titles being considered are:
"Two Assholes Over the Potomac"
"Yes! You Can Be Wrong Too!"
"How to be a Putz & Still Succeed"
"Its Not Easy Being a "Dumb" Jew"
"How to be an Objective Journalist....
While Sucking Satan's Cock"
(Please feel free to add on to the list)
Kristol quotes.
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/william_kristol/
(And Kristol is the living embodiment of Smarmy.)
That's Dr. Krauthammer. He's a psychiatrist, I believe.
Coffins draped in flags @ 28:
Ramesh Ponnuru:
After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15, he went to Princeton University, where he earned a B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude.
Enters Princeton at 15, graduates summa cum laude. We should all be so stupid.
I know if he were a liberal he'd probably bring down the average I.Q., but still.
I can see the reality television program wherein these two lunatics move into an apartment together...
"The Con Couple." But which one is Felix, which one is Oscar, and which one will be on top?
Dr. Krauthammer, more like Doctor Strangelove.
As for Rammesh, someone get that guy away from the nitrous oxide.
As for Bill Kristol, I hope Time flushes hard, that is one big turd.
-GSD
OT: I see that Tomtom Trancredo has withdrawn from the race as a Repug candidate.
And, Trancredo has endorsed Mitt Romney because Romney's stand on illegal immigration is closer to his own postion...being line them up and shoot them all. Good news is that
Trancredo was running tenth in a 9 person race, so his endorsement will not mean shit.
Heraldblog @ 36:
Yeeeccchhhh. Could you imagine letting that dishonest scumbag into your head?
BTW, Time magazine is a piece of shit.
So Ponnuru replaces Krauthammer.
If they could teach Coulter to write, she could fill Kristol's panties.
Someone should do an e-mail stating that Time magazine has buckled to liberals and Islamo-fascists and has gotten rid of their two conservative columnists and hired a left-wing Allah worshipping Muslim(show a picture of Ponnoru----I know he's he's Indian, but the lame e-mail rubes never fact check).
Fill it with some nice invective about how Time has given in to the head-choppers and the 72 virgin mongers and the gay, left-wing, surrender monkeys.
Then give Times e-mail and phone numbers and tell the lemmings to get to work.
Watch the hilarity ensue and enjoy getting that e-mail forwarded to you by your concerned know-nothing winger asshat relatives and friends.
-GSD
I don't think I'll be really happy until Kristol is homeless, living out of his '89 Chevy Celebrity begging for change on the street.
T-BoB @ 12:
Krauthammer is indeed ugly...and his disposition looks and smells like saurkraut. Of
course, he is still one of the Faux "All Stars" on Brit Hummmm's program, so unfortunately
some will still be able to view his ugly puss and listen to his irrational, right wing rantings.
Wow! I was ALMOST going to consider re-subscribing to TIME... but then this Ramesh character? What is it with these magazines? Is having Ramesh supposed to count for balance? Why not just hire David Duke while you're at it?
Add one more and the'll get an offer to all star in the 'NEW..3 STOOGES' movie.
Kristol should be deported. The guys been influencing policy for way to long.
December 2, 1993 - Leading conservative operative William Kristol privately circulates a strategy document to Republicans in Congress. Kristol writes that congressional Republicans should work to "kill" -- not amend -- the Clinton plan because it presents a real danger to the Republican future: Its passage will give the Democrats a lock on the crucial middle-class vote and revive the reputation of the party. Nearly a full year before Republicans will unite behind the "Contract With America," Kristol has provided the rationale and the steel for them to achieve their aims of winning control of Congress and becoming America's majority party. Killing health care will serve both ends. The timing of the memo dovetails with a growing private consensus among Republicans that all-out opposition to the Clinton plan is in their best political interest. Until the memo surfaces, most opponents prefer behind-the-scenes warfare largely shielded from public view. The boldness of Kristol's strategy signals a new turn in the battle. Not only is it politically acceptable to criticize the Clinton plan on policy grounds, it is also politically advantageous. By the end of 1993, blocking reform poses little risk as the public becomes increasingly fearful of what it has heard about the Clinton plan.
September 27, 1994 - William Kristol of the Project for the Republican Future spell out the next stage of the battle plan to change the makeup of Congress. "I think we can continue to wrap the Clinton plan around the necks of Democratic candidates." Some observers urge the White House to make some kind of public statement about special interests, all the money expended, and the fact that most Republicans were clearly committed from day one to killing reform, but no statement is forthcoming.
vdzvsdz @ 6:
...new and improved Joker products...
Krauthammer and Kristol are both radical fringe extremists that are irrelevant among real journalists and the MSM. "People" like these two belong with radical gigs like Faux and the national review.
Nohobear @ 1:
Too late, they are already Fox Contributors.
I hear that the Podunk Times is hiring.
Hate to see Ol' Charlie-I just smelled a fart-Krauthammer ousted. He had the nerve to comment on Obama's name." jeez"
They are fucking liars and accomplices to to crime. They should be hung by rusty piano wire on the fucking Mall after the first bench of traitors is dealt with. Fuck them.
I hear they are going to have a show with Tucker.
/just kidding
Coffins draped in flags @ 28:
He's a wanna-be mAnn Coulter. He's just another lowly, desperate, and hateful reich-wing hack.
I'm sure both can find adequate employment in the home care or food service industries. Welcome to the NEOCON ECONOMY.
Meet the new guy.
Ramesh Ponnuru quotes himself out of context.
http://badidea.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/stem-cell-chicanery-ramesh-ponnu...
Good riddance... can there disappearance from tv be from behind
Nohobear @ 1:
Probably. Wingnut welfare goes a long way.
Still; I'm doing a mental happy dance.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
I hope they don't get wingnut welfare jobs with any other publications
No more K & K Komedy in Time?
Heraldblog @ 36:
Physician heal thyself.
GSD @ 44:
Lol!
Oh some dumbass will come along and give each one of them a radio show and pay them a trillion dollars. If it can happen to Glen Beck - why not these idiots too. SOB! If not, then good riddance to bad rubbish you bastages.
theWalrus:
quicker than you can say george bush is a no-good, drunken, cocaine-snorting, lyin’ sonofabitch.
I said that pretty quick at least four or five times but then again I just love sayin' it.
SweethAtheist @ 66:
Nobody will listen to them, hell they cannot hear themselves, they do not understand their garbage until MMFA records them then they are outraged at such comments they deny saying them. Too funny.
These two assholes have done nothing for America.
they are both just ignorant scum going around the world to the right and fucking up everything in their path.
You could not name two people who have been more wrong about everything they have spoken or written.
Good ridance!
Hudson:
Krauthammer is possibly the dumbest-looking human on the planet. His headshot looks like an Onion spoof picture. He’s the living embodiment of Stupidity.
Krauthammer:
THE NEW PHONE BOOK'S HERE! THE NEW PHONE BOOK'S HERE!
Mr. Ponnuru is well set up to take over the barmy, retarded dickbaggery of those two.
Sayonara you fucking war mongering chicken shits. I never understood the logic behind the concept of creating balance by placing a completely illogical fascist point of view against a logical progressive one
separated at birth:
http://praguewriter.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/charleskrauthammer.jpg
http://images.quizilla.com/A/AutumnSong123/1070291143_stuffSam_s.jpg
Happy holidays, everybody!
Blue Lensman @ 9:
Hard to believe? This is, after all, the clown car that has Joe Klein as one of its clowns.
Let's hear from Ramesh...I haven't heard a strong woman's voice in sometime
They should fire the shills who hired these intellectual deserts in the first place.
Good!
Time gave these nuts a bit of normalcy, to which they abused. Why doesn't time go for a sane writer rather than pay a nut to write non-shocking bs?
Too late, Time magazine. I suspect that we were not the only family in America to cancel our subscription to Time mag because of the ultra conservative policies and outrageously right wing bent as exhibited by the hiring of Kristol and Krauthammer as full time writers. Mainstream media has lost its moral compass by the overt support of preemptive war caused by the current White House. Untrustworthy news. We are sticking with the internet where there is more objectivity.
I only wish the worst for such lowlife scum.
The arrogance of Kristol is vile and he is and will forever be a non entity.
At the end of his life, he will find himself masturbating with
Jeffry Dahmer, Strom Thurmond and Jerry Falwell.
I'm just sorry their boy Dubya can't be booted out with the new year, instead of waiting another 13-long months for him to wreak who-knows-what damage to our country and world on his long way out!!!
God forbid Time should give a voice to the Right. And BTW, I just have to say: Gosh, the commentary on these pages is so enlightening. "Kristol is scum" "Krauthhead is dumb" I'll definitely be back to read what you guys (and gals!) have to say about Iowa! I learn so much here!
I think Krauthammer writes op-ed for the WAPo and Kristol is still editor for the Weekly Standard. However, the 'blow to the ego' will be far more painful than any monetary loss. Kristol always has that punk-grin on his face. Yet, I have seen him close to blowing his cool, and over some fairly trivial things. It sure looked like there was a temper tantrum, lurking just below the surface. I bet he water-boards his dog. As for Krauthammer, that guy looks like a cadaver.
Bonkers @ 2:
Well it's about time I heard some good news from TIME. I wasn't going to renew my subscription but I will now
It's "Happy (Good Rid) Dance" Time!!!
(Come on, Sen. Craig - I know you got it in you ... lead us in some toe-tapping triumphant titillation.)
Well it is good thing they are out from main stream media, but they always have a last refuge for scoundrels at Fox News, whom hire liars, ex-nixon felons, disgraced racist ex-cops, ex-contra Iraq scandal military man under the Reagan right wing administration, one might say that if your a disgraced or has been you can always get a job with the right wing propaganda machine called Fox News...
Got to get rid of all these lowlife, lying Reslug bastards.
I wouldn't get your hopes up: All this means is that they've both been offered a job working for Wolfowitz in the State Department.
Has nobody noticed the timing of this? Congress is about to go into recess. RECESS APPOINTMENTS, BABY! YEEhaw!
Pericles @ 87:
Actually, the Senate has announced pro forma sessions throughout the break to prevent Bush from being able to do any recess appointments.
Bill Kristol needs a new contract to burn in hell. What a total wast of space that creep is!! I would just love to bloody that idiotic sycophantic grin of his with a nic Louisville slugger! While he writhed in pain on the ground, I would remind him of all the human suffering all over the globe that he helped bring and maintain. I look forward to a world that has no place of employment for him and his fellow fat greedy dissemblers.
My favorite line from "Tombstone" is when Wyatt Earp tells Curly Bill (Powers Boothe) that they are leaving town:
"Well...
Bye."
Time has always been a piece of crap. Known that since I was 18, and I'm 57 now. Defenders of the elite status quo--sort of like the Faux News of magazines.
I never read it, and no intelligent person would.
This is indeed good news---but, dammit, I WANT THE BACK-STORY!!! Who at Time put this together? Who won the office-lottery and got to break the happy news to these two mewling dipshits? Just how bitch-like were Chuckie and Little Billy's reactions to the news? Did Michelle Malkin call them to offer her support? Did they get security to walk them out? Details, dammit, I want details!!!
Who cares anymore? Time and Newsweek are as out of style as TV Guide, Reader's Digest, and Good Housekeeping. Who want's to read Time's week old stale news. Columns are irrelevant by the time an issue goes to press. Self promoting their Person of the Year has become a footnote to YouTube's of the month and Worst Person in the World. It's a new world of media and Time has had its 10 minutes of fame.
This makes me laugh. I cancelled my subscription to TIME when Kristol showed up as a columnist. I guess others did the same thing... and somebody there was paying attention.
I won't be re-subscribing. I can get along just fine WITHOUT their wishy-washy forked-tongue editorial positions.
Good! It is about time! I was a loyal Time reader until the the Judith Miller story broke and vowed never to read it again! How we, the American people were conned into this war is astounding and breathtaking. And I, Myself, believed this President. Mushroom clouds and mobile transports of biological weapons. God, do I feel like an asshole.
A AHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAAHA.....(cogh....cough...choke)...HHAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!
Me too, I cancelled my subscription a few months back, "until TIME gets rid of Krauthammer and Kristol" I said. So now they did. Bravo. It's about time.
And about Time, the magazine still has a long way to go to regain our trust.
Could there stock have fallen because they have not only proven to be factually inaccurate and prognosticationaly impaired but blatantly dishonest?
I should think that Time-Warner, being good business people, simply saw the handwriting on the wall -- that come 2009, a Democrat will be in the Oval Office -- and decided to can a couple of con men known for their GOP neocon views. Herr Karlheinz Krautheimer and Shrill Pistol are of the same mold, as witness the fact that Chrissy Pooh Wall-ass regularly has them on board at Fox Noise Sunday. (And, BTW, did anyone notice Kristol had on his 1970's red and blue horizonal bar tie again? And just when I figured he'd gone to Penney's and bought him some new cravats.)
Ironically, Newsweek hasn't caught on. Not only do they continue to publish that pointy-headed intellectual homophobe, George Will, they've just hired Herr Karl Roeff to do his inimical stand up routines to the tune of the 1960's classic (wasn't it by the Byrds?), "Spin, Spin, Spin." In Herr Roeff's case, Newsweek would seem a proper place to land, given the word "news" in the magazine's title. Almost everything Roeff has been saying of late is "news to most of us." Such as the notion that Bush didn't want a vote on going into Iraq as urgently as Congress. What a larf!
Nicole Belle @ 90:
Okay, thank goodness! I hadn't heard about that in the MSM (surprise), so I was assuming they wouldn't be doing it again. No wonder poor George is looking so constipated. He hasn't been able to take a 'nepotism-dump' in over a year.
stephen miller @ 99:
Yeah, but the true irony is that, according to Bill-O, your cancellation was counterbalanced by all those thousands of people who cancelled their subscriptions when they heard that TIME might make Al Gore 'Man of the Year.'
(Apparently an American raising world awareness about global warming, and winning a Nobel Prize and an Oscar in the same year is not news. But some Russian guy acting like a JERK, the way he has for the last FIVE years...well that's REALLY novel.)
could not happen to two nicer ZIONIST SCUMBAGS then these two.
Keep up the good work USA ...
No quarter for the zionist cancer in the USA!
God how I'd love to wipe that smug smirk off Kristol's face with my size 12 boot.
I'd stick it up his ass, but I think he'd like it too much.
I would love to sent Kristol and the Kraut over to Iraq and let them fight in their war. Of course Mr. Kraut's wheelchair would be armor plated.
In his heart of hearts, Kristol believes he's going to drafted for president, by the Likud party.
Or appointed German Ambassador, if Bloomberg wins.
Nicole Belle @ 90:
Thanks for the update.
whomod @ 74:
I think he looks like Dr. Smith in Lost in Space.
Now if we could only see them on some soup lines.
I'd serve their vichyssoise steaming hot in their laps, and have them sit in some ice cold chicken noodle.
Stan @ 83:
What have you learned from Kristol and Krauthhammer? The point is that 2 neocons mouth pieces that have been lying to and propagandizing Americans for years have lost a platform to do so. In the barrage of Neocon propaganda and fear, two of the voices have been quieted just a little. It's a small victory for truth, but a very welcome one.
Stan @ 83:
Awww, the poor wee mannie! Diddums gettums widdle feelings hurt? Why troll here when you could be writing love letters to your two superheroes?
JM @ 82:
Hes still working on his economic legacy to leave behind him.
Twin Towers including the SEC documents in the Saloman Brothers building , Democracy , America's Military Strength and Reputation , New Orleans , Failed war in Afghanistan , Failed war in Iraq , US Dollar , your 401Ks into their offshore accounts , perpetual economic slavery for the average American , burning the bridges for the next Presidency , insert latest revealed Republican scandal and wheeze...
Buh, bye, Billy Kristol and Chucky Craphammer. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!!!
George W. Bush started as a peacetime president, and ended up losing two wars and the American economy, plus maybe the world economy too.
Churchill started out as an emergency Prime Minister and ended up winning a war 100 times bigger than anything Chimpy dreamed off in his worst nightmares.
Read Churchill's 'few' speech and weep, Churchill talks about what will happen to Europe and the World after surviving WW2 during a a brief lull in the fighting after we won the Battle of Britain and got a few weeks breathing space. This was August 20th 1940, WW2 ended five years down the road.
Talk is of reconstruction and prevention of future wars, not perpetual GWOT (Global War on Terror) and 100 years of human and economic miseries.
83 Stan
Actually the "right" now owns Time/Life like they do the other five corporations who are concentrating the media into their hands.
And reading the right is fine, but reading divisive firebombers who are more propagandistic than journalistic is not.
There's a reason why they neocons themselves coined the term to seperate themselves from the traditional conservatives.
Greg (105) addressed my position on this. I usually don't stoop so low but, considering that these two are among at least the top dozen people responsible for our being in Iraq today, it would seem only fair that Kristol should be employed as a tethered wheelchair pusher for Krauthammer while he does man-on-the-street interviews in Baghdad on the successes of our involvement there.
Well, Krauthammer and Kristol were only two of the reasons I canceled my subscription. If they throw in Joe Klein, Joel Stein (I just can't stand his writing), and now Ponnuru, I might consider...NAH!
somewhere in a quiet cafe, Krauthammer and Kristol are regarding each other with whichever version of that simpering smirk they use to convey both longing and regret...in the distance, Joe Lieberman walks in and joins them, wiping the faint traces of George W Bush and John McCain off of his upper lip. The universe subsequently implodes, faced with so much concentrated douchebaggery in one place.
scl just means you studied hard. Camus: "genius is not in the universities." Anyone who sees the Daily Show interview must admit he's a twit. Maybe he's just gaming the system ie a whore. Anyway, gpa doesn't justify anything. (full disclosure: scl yale, classics)
I need the snow shoveled from my driveway if either of them are looking for a job.
I'll pay them minimum wage. It's more than their worth, but what the hell.
buh-bye.
Time magazine stops requesting articles from William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, and this somehow signals an improvement in... what?
All this means is that Time is swinging a little further to the left. Kristol has his own magazine, and Krauthammer will continue to get plenty of air space.
I suppose this is just an opportunity to vent your bile against these two gentlemen. Vent away; those are highly successful professional journalists, and you all are...?
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