"This is William Kristol’s last column."
By SilentPatriot Monday Jan 26, 2009 4:00pm
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It's official: Bill Kristol no longer writes a column for the New York Times. Sadly, it took the Old Grey Lady more than a year to realize that Kristol was not only an ideological hack, but a sloppy and uneven one to boot. Today, we were informed via italicized footnote -- the same footnote we've long come to expect from Kristol -- that he will no longer be writing for the "paper of record."
"This is William Kristol’s last column."
Scott Horton has the inside scoop:
The source makes clear that the decision not to renew Kristol’s contract is not related to his neoconservative ideology—Kristol’s proximity to key Washington players ranging from Bush and Cheney to John McCain (whom he supported in 2000) was considered a distinct plus. His leading advocacy of the Iraq War also added to his appeal. Kristol was viewed as a mover and shaker whose ideas had ready impact on the political firmament in Washington.
The problems that emerged were more fundamental. Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it. A give-away came in the form of four corrections the newspaper was forced to run over factual mistakes in the columns, creating an impression that they were rushed out without due diligence or attention to factual claims. A senior writer at Time magazine recounted to me a similar experience with Kristol following his stint in 2006-07. “His conservative ideas were cutting edge and influential,” I was told. “But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”
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William Kristol ~ Chairman and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century also known as PNAC ~ Established in 1997 and based out of Washington D.C.
"the process of transformation.. is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
Quote from P. 51 of the document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" published in Septemeber of 2000.
He got what he wanted.
You can read the whole post here, but from that post, comes the following (this was written while PNAC seemed to be gone, alas it has risen from the grave, apparently hoping to finish what it started):
Gee, thanks, MsJoanne - just reading all those names made me throw up a little in my mouth.
It not only makes me throw up (a lot, not a little) but it makes me angrier than just about anything and everything Bush.
Iraq was planned, as low hanging fruit - we were supposed to be in and out in weeks - and then on to Iran. Capture all the middle eastern oil and win a live game of Risk.
It is this which needs to be known to every American. For if it is not, we are doomed to a repeat when the next GOP hack lies his way into high office.
many more Americans who read the PNAC strategy before 9/11 or they would have known, as I did, that the entire 8 years of the Bush administration was concocted and conducted by these neo-con creeps.....and that 9/11 was no "surprise attack."
I have always said the criminals signed the confession before committing the crimes. Connect the dots,follow the money.
Smarmy little evil bastard... one less media outlet for that "giggling while others face death" creep...
I wonder if his time is up with the deal he made with the devil
a liar is just a liar
and he is now reaping
his just reward for
writing CRAP.......
Now if the television media would can his sorry ass as well, it would be perfect. The idiot has never been right about anything in his entire life.
That's whats so "right" about him - he's always wrong.
The sloppy writing and poor fact checking isn't a regrettable failure--a flaw in an otherwise reasonable endeavor. He has to make claims that do not bear up to scrutiny. He has to engage in obfuscation, lies, and muddy thinking.
This is what the corporate media cannot acknowledge. There is nothing cutting edge, let alone coherent, about conservativism. It is bankrupt in every manner possible. Influential Kristol might be, among idiots, crooks, and liars. But coherent and cogent he can never be.
How about a total f#cking liar and publisher of complete bull$hit!
Unless you are a panderer of baloney and fictional fabrication, (i.e. Mad Magazine...please no disrepect to one of my favorites), there is no place for someone who is a total liar and ideological (pathological) purveyor of palaver and other male bovine excrement at the New York Times. The NYT must regain, and retain its place at the top of the newspapers of America. Without its dedication to truth and factual reporting, it will lose its stature, readership, and revenue.
First of all, cutting edge conservatism is an oxymoron. Second of all, he's a HACK! He hasn't expressed an original thought in, well, ever. It's great that they're acknowledging his crappy writing and sloppy "research" but, seriously, he has nothing. Nothing. Why anyone pays him to write or talk is a complete mystery to me. It would be far more rewarding to slap the smug off his face.
in the sense that when his ideas are put into practice, people get hurt and die.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHi52z11U8
Can I Has... it's the new teh
He's a expert!
He sez whatever Carlyle Group wants him to say.
Belinda?
Bam.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUS...
Kristol sucks.
Bye.
You see. Contrary to popular opinion The Shrub and his band of incompetent cronies are actually pretty GOOD at REGIME CHANGE. Just not very precise. But if we'd left them in power long enough, and allowed one government after another to fall to the economic crisis, EVENTUALLY we'd have gotten around to Saddam's Baathist government.
Actually that's Regime Change
And I think you meant to refer to The Shrub and his band of incontinent cronies...
Amazingly enough, the whole gang of PNAC chickenhawks got over their horrible incontinence problem the moment the Vietnam war ended and they didn't have to worry about being drafted anymore.
The fact that Kristol was a complete asshole probably had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the firing, hmm?
I think back to the times when Jon Stewart had him on as a guest on the Daily Show(several times) and proceeded to cook his goose each time. And Kristol was too stupid to realize Stewart was fucking with him.
Life is good, sometimes.
"came in the form of four corrections the newspaper was forced to run over factual mistakes in the columns, creating an impression that they were rushed out without due diligence or attention to factual claims."
You mean SORT OF LIKE THE WHOLE F-KING IRAQ INVASION!?
And good luck finding a conservative/Republican who actually CARES about fact to replace "Wrong-Way" Kristol.
So who the NYT getting to replace him
jonah snotbooger?
Who cares? The Times is dead.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/...
Krugman, Rich, Herbert, and Collins are the best!
He was quite the O'Reilly fan, was he not?
"Oh we really love what he wrote, it's just that he was full of shit."
Makes perfect sense.
We don't need no damn facts!
We're an empire now. When we act, we create our own facts. (And when that doesn't work, we change our motivations.)
fries with that?
I hate clowns!
No way, Jose. To paraphrase Kryten from Red Dwarf: "I wouldn't trust William Kristol to open a can of beans that was already open."
Would you really like to go to McDonald's and order a Big Mac, and then have this simpering little turd stick a shotgun in your ribs and tell you that you're taking fries with that, like it or not, because ALL free peoples love freedom fries given the chance.
Buh bye Willy, you world class asshat!
We are speaking of William "I create my own reality" Kristol. Drink your Kool Aid and learn to live with it.
"creating an impression that they were rushed out without due diligence or attention to factual claims"
Well if they had to issue four corrections, I guess it was an impression of an actuality.
The problem with the "ideas" that Times claims they loved is that they followed from a certain logic based on facts that were provably false.
Saying that spreading pieces of the moon on crackers makes a wonderful snack surely is a new and innovative idea, but only if you believe the provably false assertion that the moon is made of cheese. Once you realize that the underlying "fact" is wrong, the idea no longer becomes "cutting edge" it just becomes stupid and wrong*.
And, unfortunately for Kristol, "facts have a well-known liberal bias". But, he will always be a star in the fact-free zone of wingnut media.
*The inexplicably popular Carr's Table Water Crackers are so dry and tasteless, bits of the moon may actually improve them.
If you hate clown than this game is for you.......just imagine that it is Willy Kristol.
http://www.ihateclowns.com/ihcgames/slap-a-cl...
where his stupidity won't be wquite so glaring against the backdrop of George Will, David Broder, Anne Applebaum and Charlie Krauthammer...
Yes, his predictions were almost always wrong, and way, way wrong.
Yes, his columns were full of inaccuracies and out and out falsehoods.
Yes, he was a passionate advocate of the incredibly stupid, disastrous and deadly Iraq War.
Yes, he is the man who gave us Dan 'Potatoe' Quayle.
Yes, he is the man who gave us Sarah 'You Betcha' Palin.
However, contrary to rumors...
He was not involved in the development of 'New Coke.'
He never managed 'Milli Vanilli'.
He was not on the team of engineers that developed the Ford Edsel. Or the Pinto. Or the Corvair.
He was never employed by the Icelanders to help modernize their banking system.
He did not write the screenplays to 'Ishtar' or 'Heaven's Gate', in fact Mr. Kristol has only ever written one motion picture screenplay: 'Howard the Duck."
Mr. Kristol is not Rod Blagojevich's hair stylist, though he did work with Tom Hanks' on his hairstyle for 'The DaVinci Code.'
Mr. Kristol did not 'invent' herpes. Or at least it can't be proven that he did. The evidence for a Kristol 'Chlamydia Connection' is entirely circumstantial as well.
Mr. Kristol did not kill Bambi's mother. Neither was it Mr. Kristol who bit Old Yeller and gave him rabies.
Although, like Clark Kent and Superman, no one has seen the two of them together at the same time in the same place, Wiliam Kristol and Yoko Ono are NOT the same person and thus, contrary to rumor, Mr. Kristol had nothing to do with the break-up of the Beatles. In fact, Mr. Kristol's involvement in the music business is limited to advising Eddie Van Halen to dump David Lee Roth in favor of Sammy Hagar, and his collaboration with Garth Brooks in developing Mr. Brooks' 'Chris Gaines' alter-ego.
Mr. Kristol has never been affiliated with the Chicago Cubs.
Mr. Kristol did not caddy for and advise Jean Van de Velde at the 1999 British Open Golf Tournament.
Mr. Kristol was at no time employed as Mr. Tom Cruise's publicist.
Mr. Kristol does not have a 'mark' on his arm that burns when he is summoned by Lord Voldemort. Indeed, to the best of our knowledge, Lord Voldemort is a fictional character and thus his involvement with Mr. Kristol is highly unlikely. By the same logic, we must conclude that Mr. Kristol had no involvement in the murder of Dobby the House Elf, notwithstanding Mr. Kristol's total lack of a convincing alibi for said event.
And No, Mr. Kristol is not in any way responsible for the rise of 'reality television.' Mr. Kristol's only involvement in this genre was his long ago advocacy for 'Puck' to become a member of the 'Real World: San Francisco'. At the time, Mr. Kristol was quoted as saying that Mr. 'Puck' was 'can't miss' and that he possessed the appeal of a 'twenty-something Dan Quayle.' Since then, Mr. Kristol's only involvement in Television has been his screenplay for the final episode of 'Seinfeld.'
We hope this clears some things up.
Joe, can I use this?
Dude, you are so friggin' brilliant sometimes!!
But I want to use it too!
*I* asked frist!!
Anybody who want to copy it and post it on another site can have it.
Here it is.
Damn, Joe...when you get on a rant, you go! I think you totally rock!!
I heard he wants to devote all of his time to running the Detroit Lions. They are "surging" toward a Super Bowl title under his leadership according to Billy. Yes, Matt Millen is one of his neocon a.k.a's.
But Mr. Kristol denies any involvement. No historical research can prove Mr. Kristol's involvement with ANY professional sports team since 1962, when, aged 9, young 'Billy-Boy' Kristol was the batboy and 'lucky charm' of the expansion New York Mets (record: 40 wins, 120 losses).
You sir....are a funny, funny man.
Thank you!
I never knew kristol ever had a straight forward opinion or ever bothered to use any facts at all.
Just make it up as you go along! It is what republicans think they do well. but after bush/chenny I think they will start to understand how stupid they are!
That group has the wherewithal to create a "New Pearl Harbor".
But they were trying to create a new Pearl Bailey.
a pearl necklace ..."
--- William Krystol
..exactly what he was doing there in the first place? Did the NYT wish to sully its reputation in an attempt to appease wingnuts? I quit reading TIME as soon as that moron appeared in it. I will never read that magazine again.
sez that Kristol's ideas are "cutting edge".
That's Time magazine talking.
Kristol is a dumb as a post.
That's "cutting edge" for Time.
....“His conservative ideas were cutting edge and influential,” I was told. “But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”
Isn't conservatism a sloppy failure-to-fact-check by default?
Shorter version: "The problem wasn't that Kristol was conservative, but that he was lazy, sloppy, stupid, and untalented."
That's the neo-Republican Party in a nutshell.
One down, 665 to go.
nothing more needed.
Isn't that Republican code-speak for "no fact-checking"? Isn't Limbaugh very "Cutting Edge and Influential"?
Never has there been a more sure way to predict the future than opposing any idea William "I am a poo-flinging howler monkey" Kristol.
that put him at the NYT, then you haven't been paying attention to who the domestic targets of warrantless wiretapping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJK5iVsios
Why not a box of rocks?
"Cutting edge" conservative ideas would be an oxymoron -- the core of conservatism is to turn back the clock (preferably to some era prior to the Magna Carta).
And there is nothing inconsistent about conservatism and refusal to fact-check. Fact-checking turns up inaccuracies or outright lies. If conservatives actually told the truth about what they wanted, we would lynch them.
He just believed in the Bush/Cheney/Rove mantra, truth doesn't matter, just say something often enough and it becomes the truth.
A line published in this forum not long ago- "Would the NYT please STOP publishing!"- summed it up very well for me.
We hear that print news media is losing ground to the Internet and other resources. Given the shameful record of the NYT and the WaPo, especially during the disastrous, crime-infested Bushco years; given their sterling band of the Josef Goebbels School of Journalism graduates, the distinguished Norman Podhoretz, Peggy Noonan, William Kristol, Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper, and an entire class of such shining stars- I would say:
Let the NYT and the WaPo die a merciful death. May they be inspired by Dr. Kevorkian, and in a great, humane act of kindness, be permitted the dignity of euthanasia. I would wish an even more rapid demise of the Wall Street Journal, so that it may join Wall Street itself into the purgatory of deflated "phantom wealth" (a phrase I heard on Democracy Now! yesterday).
In the meantime, I cannot wait to celebrate the end (in whatever capacity) of baby-faced hatemonger and death-dealer (he is the perfect equivalent of Chucky from Child's Play) William Kristol, and all his (far too many) like-minded pals.
Good riddance.
Kristol is one of the leading thugs to lead our nation into an unnecessary war based on a "pack of lies"
Some of Bill’s statement’s
“We’ve won the war,” Mr. Kristol said.
Bill Kristol out of touch and out of his mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZh5AJ30og
Kristol was one of the invade Iraq thug leaders. He should be behind bars. He did not kill anyone with his bare hands, shoot a AK47 but he sure has been a huge part of killing innocent people.
Bill "bloody" Kristol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZh5AJ30og
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001...
Kristol on Libby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maDoeYi1ovQ
This one is a doozy
Juan Williams "Vice President stopped following the rule of law
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/24/williams-...
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