Kristol refuses to comment on call to ‘prosecute’ NYT.
By on Jan 13th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Kristol refuses to comment on call to ‘prosecute’ NYT.
After The New York Times hired Weekly Standard editor William Kristol as a columnist last month, ThinkProgress noted that Kristol had previously questioned whether the paper “should be prosecuted” for revealing a secret Bush administration program to monitor international banking transactions. New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt writes today that Kristol “refused to talk” to him about his comments or the controversy over his hiring, which Hoyt calls “an odd stance for someone who presumably will want others to talk to him for his column.”
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Kristol is a Neo-Con. They create their own reality.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:37 pmIs cLara trying to drum up some troll fever here?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:40 pm“an odd stance for someone who presumably will want others to talk to him for his columnâ€
Little Billy Kristol doesn't need anyone to talk to him for his column. After all, he is the fount of all knowledge. Why would he need to collect information from anyone else?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:41 pmI love this: "Of the nearly 700 messages I have received since Kristol’s selection was announced — more than half of them before he ever wrote a word for The Times — exactly one praised the choice."
One in 700?! Har har. That speaks worlds about what a moronic decision it was to hire this pinhead.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pmIs cLara trying to drum up some troll fever here?
Comment by RUCerious — January 13, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
Yes. Ignore it.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pmThat Kristol is a known name and that he actually makes a living on his less-than-average intellect and observational skills, are proof that things are really, really flucked-up in America.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pmKristol is a Neo-Con. They create their own reality.
Comment by Zooey — January 13, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
I was trying to come up with something appropriate to say to this article -- something along the lines of Kristol being not only an idiot but a coward too.
Zooey got there the firstest with the mostest.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:47 pmcause he is a prick, a republican, a liar, a hypocrite.... wait, all of that is kinda redundant... i should have just said he's a republican.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pmComment by ralph the wonder llama — January 13, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
Awww, shucks. **blush**
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pmWe all know Kristol is chicken-sh*t. He won't even defend his own comments face to face - he hides behind his writing. When he's on Fox, he is totally among friends, so he doesn't have a problem saying whatever he wants because he will not be seriously challenged.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:00 pmI hope the NYT rues the day they signed a contract with that lying neo-con.
I am still waiting for word on the liberal who will be signed to counter his propaganda.
Yes. Ignore it.
Comment by Zooey
January 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pmThe best advise I've heard all year......the 'one' thing that lets them know 'It's not working'.
Korporate Welfare ubber alles.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:10 pmAsslikker Kristol revels in his pariah status. It's how he makes his living. If the people that he hates hate him back then he must be doing something right.
It's a pretty sweet deal that the folks he slammed so hard back then now welcome him with open arms and wallet and without the slightest hint that he cares to back off of what he said.
Is this how much the NYT wants Asslikker Kristol to love them? "All is forgiven for you insulting us, will you take some of our money and column inches for awhile? Please."
The only thing A.K. is truly afraid of is having to explain himself beyond the trite, dismissive, inflammatory crap that he barfs up daily. He couldn't come up with weasel words adequate to explaining his accusations back then and why the NYT should now let him within a mile of being a well paid, nicely benefited and certainly adequately perked employee. What a f**kin' joke.
It truly is neo-con welfare and I'll bet daddy Irving called up buddy Abe R. after junior got canned at Time and asked if Abe could come up with something for Junior to do.
The neo-con cabal is a bunch of helpless f'n sissies. All bellicose talk and zero f'n walk. What a sight Kristol is with a golden pacifier in his mouth and his thumb up his ass.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:45 amI slammed Bill Kristol to his face last week in NH. I saw him slinking away from Frank Luntz at a hotel and I yelled: "You screwed up your very first column in the NY Times!"
He beat a hasty retreat.
Imagine the lack of character to take a paycheck from an outfit that you consider treasonous.
No morals, no ethics and he's a shabby writer to boot.
-GSD
January 14th, 2008 at 12:59 amBill Kristol, one of the most profound failures of punditry assumes his new perch at America’s Paper of Record but won't go on the record himself.
And don’t forget that Rupert Murdoch, Kristol's employer at Fox News and the Weekly Standard, just completed his purchase of the Wall Street Journal with which he has vowed to bury the Times. Now he has his own man on the inside.
News Corpse
January 14th, 2008 at 1:04 amThe Internet's Chronicle Of Media Decay.
After subscribing to the NYT for 15 years, I canceled my subscription upon its hiring of Kristol. I will not help pay his salary, ever.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:10 amThe NYT's hired a Murdoch mole. What a pack of morons.
-GSD
January 14th, 2008 at 1:15 amAt least the NY Times didn't sell out cheap!
January 14th, 2008 at 2:44 am#1 Comment by Zooey — January 13, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Kristol is a Neo-Con. They create their own reality.
Right o Zooey! Yes they do! And a BushCo aide said so! As insane as he and the rest of the neocons are (masquerading as sane, insightful, great leaders) the problem has been that they have had their hands on the levers of power going back to the 70s. They created a strong coalition of religious nuts, empire freaks, power brokers, corporate backers and their shills, media moguls and war mongers bent on ruling the world while destroying the country.
The country snoozed while PNAC evolved and the Democratic Party was taken over by appeasers and triangulators.
Hopefully, through the internet, information is waking the American public up. Finding itself tied down, and hardly able to move, the American Gulliver is struggling to break free and get rid of all the little men who have caused so much harm. Should they be squashed in the process it will be cause to celebrate.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:07 amNYT is sheltering the poster child of nepotism. I cannot respond directly to his columns. His new screed is worse than the first trash. I don't think this is going to work out for the Times. He is such a hack. It has to embarrass the conservative elite to be represented by this drivel.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:15 amWell, it's even worse than that. We don't own our food supply either. Coporations shut down almost every private farm in the midwest during the early 80's. Remember the farmers having standoffs with cops refusing to leave the land their grand and great-grand ancestors had settled? Those private farms were shut down, foreclosed on, and sold to corporations who turned the many smaller plots into several larger mega-farms. Today, most farms are run by machines. GPS navigated un-manned tractors do all the work in the grain fields. But it was the same for other sorts of farms and ranches as well.
Now comes the best part. You are the private property of the Federal Reserve Bank which is a private corporation, not a government office. Majority control of that corporation is held by the Rothschild family, with the remainder divvied up among a few other elite families and international banksters.
This was the cost of America's bankruptcy in 1933...
I've heard that only a few people out of these prison camps have been tried for anything.... and they were all aquitted. The majority of them haven't even gone to trial.
It's pretty obvious what's going on here. The Nazi/Occult infiltration of our government across all departments has been slowly setting up a system to rob us of our power as a people, to defend ourselves, provide for ourselves, etc. Once the system is totally swept away (by an orchestrated disaster) these crazy ass prisons where nobody is tried and you're imprisoned indefinitely will suddenly be the new home of American patriots who refuse to roll over for the Fourth Reich.
Scary, scary stuff. I wish I were just entertaining myself with what ifs... It feels more and more often that I'm contemplating the future.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread326509/pg1http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,10
8504,00.html
January 14th, 2008 at 7:19 amWhy doesn't TP weigh in on the current victim fight between the two leading Dem candidates? Obama is screaming racism, while Hill'reh is screaming sexism. Women are getting defensive about men "ganging up" on Hill'reh, while blacks are getting defensive about ANY reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:41 amBill Kristol is a manwhore, only worse. He's not selling his body - he's selling his COUNTRY.
Disgusting.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:01 amKristol is a bafoon, he's never been right about ANYTHING.
The NYT declared it's irrelevance by hiring such a person.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:13 amHopefully, through the internet, information is waking the American public up. Finding itself tied down, and hardly able to move, the American Gulliver is struggling to break free and get rid of all the little men who have caused so much harm. Should they be squashed in the process it will be cause to celebrate.
Comment by Merlin — January 14, 2008 @ 3:07 am
Merlin, I truly hope you're right. My optimism is dampened.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pmI slammed Bill Kristol to his face last week in NH. I saw him slinking away from Frank Luntz at a hotel -GSD
Sounds kinky!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pmIn Brazil we have a say: People who spit to the air, get it back on their faces...
January 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pm