Ooops! William "Always Wrong" Kristol Tops List Of 10 Worst Predictions For 2008
What have I said, over and over? Bill Kristol is NEVER right. And even Foreign Policy Magazine agrees with me, as they list the worst predictions of 2008 and who else but our favorite war-mongering chickenhawk neocon, William "The Bloody" Kristol.
“If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. … Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.” —William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006
Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clinton’s to lose, but it takes a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the first Iowa caucus was held. After Iowa, Kristol lurched to the other extreme, declaring that Clinton would lose New Hampshire and that “There will be no Clinton Restoration.” It’s also worth pointing out that this second wildly premature prediction was made in a Times column titled, “President Mike Huckabee?” The Times is currently rumored to be looking for his replacement.
Oh Hallelujah! What a Christmakwanzukkah present that would be. Also in the Hall of Shame:
2. Jim Cramer of Mad Money, for advocating holding onto BearStearns stock six days before it lost 90% of its value and was eventually sold to JP MorganChase.
3. Dennis Blair and Kenneth Lieberthal, for seriously underestimating the potential risks to oil tankers along shipping lanes.
4. Donald Luskin, for not only denying the existance of a recession, but questioning the sanity of anyone who thought we might be in a recession.
5. The Economist Magazine, for their rose-colored view of Kenya's presidential election.
6. Business Week for their prediction that Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg would duke it out for the Democratic nod, only to have surprise underdog John McCain win the presidential election.
7. Scientist Walter Wagner for his opposition to the Large Hadron Collider by suggesting everything from mini-black holes to all out planetary destruction would result.
8. Goldman Sachs analyst Arjun Muti for predicting $200/barrel oil by year's end.
9. Charles Krauthammer, for his completely wrong forecasting of the battle between South Ossetia and Georgia...(not predicting foreign warfare correctly is a specialty of Krauthammer, evidentally).
10. Henry Paulson, for assuring that the banking industry was stabilized by his magic spewing of $700 billion to various industries with little to no oversight.
Please, can we call out an end to taking seriously people like Kristol, Cramer and Krauthammer now?
To be fair to #7 scientist Walter Wagner, the collider was shut down shortly after some initial tests were run in September, so we still might all be destroyed by mini-black holes once it is up and running again...
And we'll all in purgatory.
The big reveal would happen much like a M. Night Shyamalan movie: A big build up to the reveal and the 20 minutes that has the audience going, "What the ...."
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
LMAO!!!
Wasn't there some book by Greg Bear involving mini black holes destroying the earth?
I would make number one:
Paulson claiming the $700 Billion would be all there would be to it.
According to Bloomberg at last count, between the Treasury and Federal Reserve they have committed $8.5 Trillion.
We are headed for the dung heap of history.
Seems to me that should be number one.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Welll dung is often referred to as number one.
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Number two, actually.
It should be added to that list that the entire MSM told us our candidates in 08 would Rudy and Hillary. According to them, back then, this was a done deal.
Then there were the pundits who said America would never elect a black man as president.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
True - proving once again how irrelevant the corporate owned and run mainstream media is.
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you notice they never say: "I WAS DEAD WRONG!".
I'm always amazed to see losers like Bill here trotted out as "experts" on one matter or another. That's because people have short memories and are intimidated by confident deep thinkers. The easiest way to deal with these yahoos is to point out their abysmal track records each and every time a progressive guest finds themselves across a table from these idiots. They have been thoroughly discredited time and time again. And any news program that attempts to pass them off as knowledgable guests ought to be ashamed. But they won't, so it's up to progressive guests and blogs like this one to spread the word. Maybe some day the message will sink in.
How about this one?
I will get laid this year.
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Don't give up. The year isn't over yet.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Vulcans knock boots together more often than I do.
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Credit where credit is due, Kristol was the first one I heard even mention Palin might be McCain's pick for vp. He was talking about it for weeks before it was announced. The one time he was right, he was wrong.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
who forced the nom on mccain
its ez to predict when the fix is in
Do you mean him personally, or the whole goofy right wing?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He promoted the Palin choice
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Palin was Kristol's hand-picked creature. As Dan Quayle was once upon a time. (quite a track record there buddy!)
He first met with her in the summer of 2007 in Alaska. Kristol knew the Reich-wing religious nut-jobs would suck her up instantly - and they did - Dobson, Norquist and Perkins insisted on Palin in a secret meeting in Minnesota.
So you could say Kristol, Dobson, Norquist and Perkins - clearly overplaying their hands - were personally responsible for the demise of McSame's presidential aspirations.
Of course they all deny Palin was part of the problem. Which is fine by me - I'd love to see her run in 2012.
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One of my favorites out of the mouth of Kool-Aid Kristol was during the run up to the war in Iraq; he said Shias and Sunnis would embrace one another after Saddam was overthrown and spoke down to people who thought otherwise as if they were complete idiots.
If I had his track record in my line of work I would have been shit canned years ago....so why does this douche bag still have a job ??
"The Times is currently rumored to be looking for his replacement."
"Oh Hallelujah! What a Christmakwanzukkah present that would be. "
That's easy to say before we find out who the Times selects as his successor.
I suggest Fred Barnes. He's so fu*king stupid that he's funny.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
David Brooks can hold the fort on the create-your-own-reality front. Why not just can Kristol already?
And save the money.
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I've never understood why anyone would listen to "predictions" of dirtbags like Kristol and his ilk. They aren't really predicting at all, what they are doing is making lame attempts at influencing public opinion. And they suck at that too.
Most be frustrating having a limp noodle both on your neck and on your scrotum.
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Greenspan- “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”
Massive Fail
There's a book out called "Greenspan's Fraud" -- I couldn't find it on CD to gift it for the holidays - but maybe later.
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http://www.buzzflash.com/hartmann/05/07/har05...
I have no idea why, but Ben Stein is a regular on these "money" shows even though he was sure and predicted that the DOW would top 18,000 in 2008.
I understand that it's redundant to make this point, but it never ceases to amaze me just how big of a dipshit Kristol actually is. Is it possible that he's this clueless, that he's insane or is he just reliably bought and paid for? Or perhaps it's a combination of the three? As for Kramer...he's a straight-up Section 8. The only thing missing on his broadcast is the men with nets, and the Jerry Springer style studio audience...
He has a personal agenda and he refuses to give up on it. Quayle was his creature too. He's good at picking losers - that's about it. Time for him to move on.
Kristol is PNAC - and his father was one of the very original neo-cons (wiki this) --
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...that's come out of Dick Morris' mouth? Or is that too easy?
I still nominate Jimbo Cramer, since no one has ever actually lost MONEY listening to Kristol.
He is wrong about accomplidhing the rest of the plans of PNAC, too.
For the time being. Don't expect this slug or his friends to go away anytime soon. We'll be stepping over his slime trail for some time to come.
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Kristol is the git that keeps on giving [typo but I'm keeping it]
If he says shmuckabee is the future pres then there's no chance it will happen. :)
I would be the last person to defend anything that William "the bloody" Kristol has to say I can not stand that SOB but, I had thought about my comment about Ben Stein was out of place because he made that statement in 2007. I then noticed that the statement that Kristol wins for was made in 2006. How can he win for the worse prediction of 2008 when he made the prediction in 2006?
always looks like he's either just shat himself....or he's thinkin about it.
I think you're right - I'd always thought he just had a gas problem - maybe farting -- but I think you nailed it.
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Naw...pretty sure he's got a runny bottom.
I just wanna know who he thinks will win the Florida-Oklahoma game in January - so I can bet heavily on the other team.
Talk about a "lock!"
Reality, sadly, has a liberal bias....
wee willy krystol(nacht) is what they call street smart
He knows what street he lives on.
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...and I, for one, welcome our new half man half frog overlords.
toad...he's half toad.
I, too, can't stand M. Kristol. I thought you might get a kick out of this:
http://bootynovelbill.blogspot.com/2008/11/bi...
If this was a truly just country neoconservatives and warmongers like Kristol would be put on trial for instigating war crimes. I truly hate the Washington popularity club that enables beasts like this to rise and spew their shit.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
To think that the media is dumping a heap of money on this turd for his dipshit predictions. What a country.
Only Rupert Murdoch and the NY Times are willing to give Kristol a pay check. What does that say?
How many signs, indications, clues, heads up, alerts, hints, and messages does the NYT needs before it ditches Willy Kristol?
The Washington Post booted Kristol in less than a year.
What about John McCain who said the economic fundamentals are sound and the market collapsed hours after his statement?
I always called it Hanukkwanzmas.
he and o'reilly are gonna be bunkies in the nut hatchery
...that Steve Jobs couldn't save Apple, that Apple Stores would be a failure and most recently, that nobody would buy iPhones.
Can't blame any of them really for missing the whole "Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States" thing, and basing their predictions on who else was in the race...
I would have been surprised if in fact they had had the forethought to reconsider the political/social framework(s) from which their predictions were being made. THAT would have been the real news!
"Kristol Self-Critical! News at 11!"
I still have the issue of the Economist endorsing George Bush for president (I stopped subscribing shortly thereafter).
Kristol plays political games using the country as his own personal playground. His ardent and somewhat school-boyish affection for Sarah Palin could have brought the whole country down if McCain had won the election. I don't care for ideologues on either side of the aisle, but Kristol is THE right-wing ideologue. To him, elections are nothing more than a contest of political dogmas and talking points. The man doesn't have a pragmatic bone in his body.
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