Kristol misattributes quote in first NYT column.
By on Jan 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Kristol misattributes quote in first NYT column.
In his first column for the New York Times today, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol attributes a quote about the “obvious, powerful points of identification” GOP voters may have with Mike Huckabee to Michelle Malkin. But, as Malkin points out, the words were actually written by “a different MM,” Michael Medved. Greg Sargent writes, “it looks as if Kristol’s first column will already require a correction.”
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Billy may not be familiar with checking facts.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmThis dickhead can’t get ANYTHING right. Anyone who pays 50 cents to read this rag should get $1.00 change/
January 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmfunny how he’s trying to inject Michelle Malkin into mainstream thought. Yucky!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pmNothing like tripping on the starting blocks…
Kristol may have to familiarize himself with real journalistic standards (assuming that the NYT is one of the media that still has them). You know, fact checking, verifying sources, etc. Uncontrolled hot air isn’t welcome there. Yet.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pmKrusthole thinks he’s writing for the Weakly Standard.
The NYTimes sux like Fox.
-G
January 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pmSo what? He got HIS name right, didn’t he? What else matters?
January 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pmYou mean his first column wasn’t about how important it is for the US to attack Iran with nukes as soon as possible?
What a shock!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pmKristol is the model of consistency.
Consistently wrong, every time, about every thing.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pmCome on folks, you can’t actually expect Kristol to get anything right, can you?
January 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pmCorrection isn’t in the Neocon dictionary.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pmI’m sure that Michelle Malkin would have said it if Michael Medved hadn’t said it first. Billy boy was just using his amazing powers to show us a universe without Michael Medved….
January 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pmCorrection isn’t in the Neocon dictionary.
Comment by Badmoodman — January 7, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
Neither, apparently, is its root word.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pmAside from that, the article is very light on facts. You have a jab at personal enemy Clinton, dismiss threatening dark man for being a democrat, endorsing the creationist minister only because he might be the only conservative that can beat a democrat.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pmHe cares only about the chance to plug his violent world vision: kill Arabs, help Israel.
You can’t tell one rabid right wing barking dog from another. They all sound the same, apparently even to Billy Kristol.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pmKristol & the NYT for hiring him, are the ones needing the correction.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm“Kristol misattributes quote in first NYT column”
LOL! Let’s see NYT defended Vampire Kristol’s hiring because Kristol is a “serious, respected conservative intellectual.” Now their golden boy falls on his face on his 1st piece before he collects a paycheck.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:32 pmFuuu-huuuummmbeeelll!!
January 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pmMichelle Malkin… Michael Medved… true Neocons just split the difference and aim for the shrill.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pmThe biggest correction should be the author! What the hell are they thinking? Anything for publicity, I guess – even negative publicity.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pmAhh…once again the NY Times screws up. Blair, we hardly knew ye….
January 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pmread the article and I’m a bit perplexed. Kristol thinks if Bloomberg were to enter the race votes would be sapped away from Obama. He doesn’t bother to explain it but just throws that out as if that’s a fact.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pmA one-time giant of journalism, THE New York Times, takes another slide down that slippery slope to “entertainment”!
January 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pmDid anyone here besides hellinabucket actually read the column? Kristol is spinning a fantasy where Obama buries Clinton in the primaries, Huckabee does the same to the rest of the GOP, and Huckabee battles Obama in the general by using the brilliant strategy of the same old tired Republican wedge issues — guns, abortions, and gays. And this Kristol wet dream is capped by Bloomberg entering the race and siphoning off votes from Obama, leaving Huckabee breaking the tape at the finish line. Fortunately, it sounds so far-fetched that only people like Kristol could hold onto it. But if it does come true — God help us all.
And as far as the misattributed quote? Anybody could tell that couldn’t possibly have been from Malkin — it wasn’t hateful enough.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pmYou first 24 are so on the ball, I have nothing to add but my admiration. How great to find people who actually think!!
January 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pmable as
Billy Krisco, always sliding in factoids of wish instead of facts.
Keep sliding, billy, it’s all downhill from here.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pmKristol’s entire life requires a correction.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pmMalkin as a source for anything — whether cited correctly or not — is a humiliation for the NYTimes. And I thought it couldn’t get any worse than Judith Miller.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pmBloody Bill
All wrong. All the time.
It’s time for the oily creep to be rendered down and refined. For gasoline.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:50 pmThanks, missmolly for inspiring me to actually read the column. As you note, it’s even worse than the bungled quote would indicate.
Here’s possibly my favorite stupid conclusion:
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.
Can you believe that? As if Bush wasn’t sold to the American public as a “likable regular guy”.
Kristol is indeed a tool. And not a very sharp one at that. The NYT should be ashamed.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:11 pmDefinition: ‘misattributes’
The act of personal self gratification using you’re write hand.
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January 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pmI work with inflated idiots like him everyday. If you can’t get an A, or even a B, on your dissertation, you shouldn’t get the job. It’s all WHO you know and not WHAT you know. And certainly not how well you perform. Now we know how stupid all those Ivy League educations really are and how bloated the egos of the ever so powerful.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pmCorrection isn’t in the vocabulary of anyone who works for The Weekly Standard. For proof, read this.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:01 pm“Did anyone here besides hellinabucket actually read the column?”
Not sure what the point of doing that would be.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:21 amSo, I don’t quite see what the problem is. Is Michelle upset that Kristol used her name as the source of the quote or is she upset that she didn’t think of the quote before Medved? Also, why is she upset anyway? It’s not like she’s doesn’t speak without checking her facts first.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:22 amIt’s all part of being a CONservative.
the New York Times… well they are getting what they paid for…
January 8th, 2008 at 1:14 amWhy is anyone reading this imbecile?
January 8th, 2008 at 9:10 am