Kristol Uses Baseless Washington Post Editorial To Smear Pelosi
Kristol Uses Baseless Washington Post Editorial To Smear Pelosi
Fox News’ fount of misinformation Bill Kristol today claimed that Pelosi’s trip to Syria was “a bad day for America.” Kristol quoted the baseless Washington Post editorial from this morning to attack Pelosi, informing the audience that the paper — “not a Republican paper — called her statement ludicrous and her trip foolish.” Watch it:
Kristol peddled a series of false claims in his short interview:
Kristol claimed the trip shows “America is divided.” Republican Rep. David Hobson, who was part of Pelosi’s delegation, said: “We reinforced the administration’s positions and at the same time we were trying to understand and maybe getting some voice to some things people wanted to say that maybe they were not comfortable saying to the administration. The jury’s out … but this was not an anti-administration trip at all.”
Kristol claimed that she “falsely stated” she was bringing a message of peace to Syria. In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office stated publicly that they had given such a message to Pelosi. “Pelosi is conveying that Israel is willing to talk if they (Syria) would openly take steps to stop supporting terrorism,” Olmert’s spokeswoman Miri Eisin said.
Kristol concluded his interview by suggesting he didn’t “want to be partisan.” But somehow, he managed to accomplish that effect by singling out Pelosi for attack and refusing to mention the three-person Republican delegation that visited Syria ahead of her.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who was part of the conservative delegation, defended Pelosi’s trip, saying: “I don’t care what the administration says on this. You’ve got to do what you think is in the best interest of your country.”
Transcript:
HOST: Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, with me now to talk about this. Good to have you on as we get more live pictures outside of London. With regard to the trip to Syria and Nancy Pelosi, what does the President of Syria now believe the cards he is holding after such a significant trip for him?
KRISTOL: No, I think he believes America is divided. That the Speaker of the House — the third ranking official in the U.S. government — has come and paid obeisance to him and says the road to Damascus and the road to peace. Falsely stating apparently that she was bringing the message of peace from the Prime Minister of Israel, as if the Prime Minister of Israel couldn’t convey that directly. It is a very bad moment.
[…]
The Washington Post not a Republican paper have called her statement ludicrous and her trip foolish. The road to Damascus is a road to peace. This is a government permitting terrorists and maybe aiding terrorists coming across the border to kill American troops in Iraq. Senator McCain and a Republican delegation were in Baghdad visiting the troops and getting attacked by much of the media, the New York Times, CNN for urging on General Petraeus and saying the surge was making progress. And the Speaker of the House is in Syria, a country aiding the terrorists attacking our troops. I think it is really a bad for America — I don’t want to be partisan — I really feel bad. I think it is a bad day for the U.S. policy that Speaker Pelosi made this trip.
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So Kristol calls the Post “”"not a republican paper”"”" I guess that means he doesn’t read it…just from the articles that are posted on other sites you can tell the Post kisses bush ass as well as the rest of the press.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:48 amKristol is an empty suit and barely a hairdo. He’s a wimpy, Foghorn Leghorn.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:49 amIt’s apparent that all of the conartists are afraid of Pelosi…geesh…I haven’t seen this much energy expended even for their president. Wow! Pelosi rocks. The talking heads of the GOP and sycophantic whores in the MSM are all atwitter with the stones Pelosi has to trump Bush - which she clearly and undoubtedly has done with this visit! Atta girl, Nancy!
April 5th, 2007 at 11:50 amKristol if a cipher. End of discussion.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:51 amThe Washington Post not a Republican paper
Interesting, how Kristol felt he had to add the qualifier ‘not a Republican paper’ to his mention of the Washington Post.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:52 amWhat an idiot.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:52 amWhy is Bill Kristol even allowed on TV? He’s always wrong.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:54 amThe Editorial is hardly baseless..TP has lost it, again.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:56 amKristol is a mind-numbing, robotic idiot. The WaPo adds to the evidence that it is indeed a Republican paper simply by publishing this discredited freak.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:58 amHe is an American? WOW! thats news to me. I thought he was a an Israeli. Or is it he just acts like one on T.V.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:59 amLets not forget Kristol is the chairman of PNAC, of course he is a dishonest lying neocon scumbag, like most of the Bushco Administration.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pmKristol is not an idiot, he is an active enemy of America, and should be treated as such.
Patrick is an idiot.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:01 pmBy all means lets get a Straussian disciple with a 0.00% average of anticipatory claims and lets all listen with abated breath……….Patrick1 your brownshirts are ready to be picked up at the drycleaners.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pmKristol is just sore because diplomacy was effective, and the war with Iran has been delayed, hopefully indefinately. His shares in the defense industry are not rising in value fast enough.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pmKristal is also sore because his Zionist-panty-sniffing-fantasy has been interrupted.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:03 pmJust because I might say I disagree with Isreali national policies does not make me an anit-semite. If I say I disagree with Russia, does that mean I don’t like white people? No.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:05 pmWhat a bunker mentality!
This is just like the end of WWII when Nazis rather than accept responsibility for their own actions were blaming everyone else for the fall of their empire.
But then again, Kristol and the rest of the neo-con/Repug garbage are nothing but the second generation Nazis anyway.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:06 pmWe should let our representatives know that we care about such issues as global poverty. According to the non-profit organization, the Borgen Project, annually it costs $19 billion to feed the world while the United States spends $420 billion on the military alone with $340 billion of that being spent on the Iraq War.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pmKristol concluded his interview by suggesting he didn’t “want to be partisan.â€
He missed April Fools Day. What a jokester!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pmKristol needs to be viewed along the same lines as Cheney and Rummy. WRONG ON EVERYTHING!!
Hey Kristol, what have you been right about?
I’m sick of any “news” organization putting on anyone, who has been wrong about everything in regards to the war.
Fox needs to stop giving these guys any camera time. Letting this guy spout, just continues to undermine their credibility.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:11 pmIf I say I disagree with Russia, does that mean I don’t like white people?
You anti-Russite!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThis is my familiar refrain on any story about Bill Kristol speaking on any subject:
WHY DOES ANYONE STILL PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THIS MAN SAYS???
April 5th, 2007 at 12:14 pm“Ludicrous and foolish”? At least Kristol is finally talking about subjects he has direct, meaningful, first-hand experience in.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pmYou’ve got to hand it to the guy- after publicly promoting a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, he still gets out of bed every day, puts on a suit, and talks on the teevee like he believes people should listen to him.
His faith in himself, despite all of the reasons that he should have lost it long ago, is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Or his endless capacity for being a delusional idiot. One of those two.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pmKRank sez:
Because it behooves us to know our enemy.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pmI believe Kristol is a founding member of the PNAC. They haven’t been right on much since, well, since forever so it doesn’t suprise me he’s wrong on this.
Let’s get another reaction from Frank Wolf about the trip. I’d like to hear his reaction to what Kristol is saying.
Consider the source. His slanted view of PNAC domination has been pissed away. He will be remembered as one of the drivers of the Bush Bus off the cliff.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pmFox needs to stop giving these guys any camera time.
Comment by Crump’s Brother
Don’t hold your breath.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:22 pmKristol gets paid by Fox News to say what their viewership wants to hear. That’s the only reason he’s on TV; that he’s wrong about everything he says is merely an inconvenience…
And the Washington Post in its infinite wisdom has been teaming up with Kristol’s views a little too often not to be “not a republican newspaper.”
April 5th, 2007 at 12:28 pmOff topic,but on my mind;
CNN’s Barbara Starr is a Pentagon plant and a propaganda mouthpiece.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:32 pmWell folks, Kristol is entitled to his opinion as we all are. In the end it doesn’t mean anything though. If he were Bush or Pelosi or God then his opinion would matter. If he was running for election his opinion and words would matter. As it stands Kristol and his views mean nothing and I don’t see how or why comments from this guy become news worthy!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:33 pmFox is on a dead run while Hound-Dog network is pulling tail hair out with it’s teeth.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:40 pmHis comments are not newsworthy, but unfortunately the news programs haven’t caught on.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:40 pmKristol is a PNAC founder and also a personal friend and supporter of Joe LIEberman, and a regular talking-head on Faux NoNooz, so that should cover all any intelligent person needs to know about him! LOSER!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:42 pmWas it Richard Pryor who said,
“Have a coke and a smile and shut the f%#k up!”?
These repubilcan pundicks who call themselves independent are most annoying.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pmKristol “didn’t want to be partisan”? Isn’t that what his satanic masters pay him to be?
April 5th, 2007 at 12:47 pmJust last year, Kristol called the idea that Iraq would lapse into a civil war an “urban myth” and “pop psycology.” Why should anyone take anything he says seriously?
April 5th, 2007 at 12:53 pmWhat a Putz!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:54 pmEverybody should know by now that this guy is a PNAC plan pusher,and talking to Syria contradicts such plans…
It doesn’t matter whether Pelosi went to Syria or someone else….he is ready to spin the story.
Peace with Syria,Iraq,and Iran is not on the menu of Neocons.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:58 pmYet, they are the last to volunteer for the such wars they love to plan for.
Why does anyone believe anything this Kristol guy says. What ever the Dems do he spins it into something that is a lie.
The Dems have done great things in the past four months like ending this war soon.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:03 pmThe man responsible for 9-11 … can you please explain to me why this man is still alive?
April 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pmThe republicans are in a tail spin trying to create their reality. Too bad nobody is listening.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:51 pm#39 That task is greater than they can imagine. 08, here we come!!
April 5th, 2007 at 2:07 pmWell, Billy K should know a bad idea when he sees one …. like invading Iraq…. what a brainless wonder.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pmBut wait…didn’t Bill Kristol gang bang us into the needless Iraq war? Talking to an adversary with influence to end the war, is no where near as much fun as sending unarmoured American men and women into a meatgrinder. At least Speaker Pelosi has the cajones to TRY the more intelligent diplomatic tactic. Bill Kristol should have his salary garished into the defense budget as one small crumb of remorse.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pmDear Mr Kristol
Please stop talking. None of the blabber that constitutes your opinion is sufficiently based in the fact and realities to be worth the electrons it takes to move your images down the tubez.
Please return to you hole and pull the lid over yourself. You will not be missed when you are gone and historians will laugh that anyone believed anything you ever had to say. Welcome to the ashbin of history you self sactimonious fool.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:32 pmThe WP editorial board is as Republican as the loonies at the WSJ editorial board. Of course, Kristol has confessed before that falsely attacking the press is a way he and conservatives “work the refs.”
April 5th, 2007 at 2:33 pmIn the spirit of accuracy–this is the full statement from Olmert’s flak:
“Pelosi is conveying that Israel is willing to talk if they (Syria) would openly take steps to stop supporting terrorism,” Olmert’s spokeswoman Miri Eisin said. “But at this point the Syrian government, by openly backing terror all around the Middle East, is not a partner for negotiations.”
By not printing the whole thing you change the entire focus–oh wait, i forgot–this is the blogosmear–anything goes
April 5th, 2007 at 2:38 pmKristol’s name is all over PNAC - the document written in the ’90’s claiming on page 51 we needed a new Pearl Harbor, which we got with 9/11, to begin the blueprint of PNAC. The blueprint of invading Iraq, Iran, Syria….
Well Kristol, isn’t Pelosi kind of screwing up your plans????????
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April 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pmWilliam Kristol, neo-CON-man and LYING HAPPY HYPOCRITE—-USING THE EQUALLY LYING Washington Post(tm) editorial DISTORTING AND TWISTING SPEAKER PELOSI’S EFFORTS AND SWIFT-BOAT-SHIT-SMEARING HER AND DEMOCRATIC COMMON-SENSE!!!! WHAT UTTER NONSENSE AND RIDICULOUS PSYCHOBABBLE GOBBLEDYGOOK SPEWED OUT OF Kristol’s VILE YAP!!!!! NO AMERICAN WITH HALF A BRAIN IN THEIR NOGGIN WOULD BELIEVE THIS IN-HUMAN GARBAGE TRASH-TALKING HEAD Kristol OR BE INFLUENCED BY HIS DEMAGOGIC JINGOIST PABLUM—–UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE SOME MORONS AND CRETINS LIKE IN THIS BLOG ABOVE–YOU TROLLS KNOW WHO YOU ARE—-WITH PEABRAINS THAT SWALLOW Kristol and the Post’s OUT-AND-OUT LIES WITH ALACRITY—SAD, VERY SAD INDEED!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI’d rather listen to someone take a shit than listen to kristol say one word. What credibility does this man have? Why one God’s green Earth doe’s anyone give this empy shell of a man air-time? Name one thing he’s been right about?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:32 pmOne thing comes to mind - BITCH SLAP THIS SISSY
April 5th, 2007 at 6:36 pmBill Krtistol should be rendered unemployable…
…by virtue of his health insurance costs…
April 5th, 2007 at 8:04 pmBill Kristol today claimed that Pelosi’s trip to Syria was “a bad day for America.â€
Peace and deplomicy is bad….for people who worship the devil and evil.
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April 6th, 2007 at 10:53 amGlad to see somebody calling it like it is. Pelosi has no authority to dictate foreign policy. Why can’t she visit the troops over in Iraq?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:51 amWhat are you talking about? Who cares what Kristol says, he a talking head for the conservative side. The damage is what Pelosi has done by embarssing herself, talking to one of the most ruthless regime in the world, giving them some legitmacy, while they continue to kill anyone who disagrees with them. Your desire to hate Bush, should not cloud the fact the Pelosi is the Neville Chamberlin of our time.
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