Kristol ‘ambivalent’ about extending contract as New York Times columnist.
Kristol ‘ambivalent’ about extending contract as New York Times columnist.
During a panel discussion today, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol was asked about rumors that he may be giving up his column at The New York Times after his contract expires next month. “I don’t think I’ve had that conversation yet,” Kristol said. But when asked if he wanted his contract to be renewed, Kristol didn’t seem too interested. “I’m ambivalent,” he said, “I haven’t really focused on it.” He then suggested the column just takes up too much of his time:
“I dunno. You gotta talk to them about that. It’s been a lot of work and I’m kinda stretched a little thin. I’ll see.” [...]
“You guys are all—well, I don’t know you—but everyone’s obsessed with this internal New York Times…” Mr. Kristol stopped himself short.
“I’ve had zero problems, issues… It’s been low drama. Despite all the dramatics in the blogosphere it’s been a very undramatic experience for me.”
Maybe all of Kristol’s error-filled Times columns that caused “all the dramatics in the blogosphere” were a result of him being “stretched a little thin.”
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Repetitive failure can be very exhausting, Bill, take some time off, OK?
November 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pmOT: Congratulations, TP and CAP! You are famous and powerful. Albeit, linked on the Drudge Report…
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg
November 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pmMr. Kristol, if you don’t really care enough, then why not seek out greener pastures to leave your road apples; because the feelings are mutual.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pmAll that rewriting, all that research for facts that I didn’t do…so tiring.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pmIt’s been a lot of work and I’m kinda stretched a little thin.
STOP THE PRESSES!!
Lying, factually inaccurate incompetence described by rightwing columnist Bill Kristol as “work”. Limbaugh, other drug addicts agree.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pmOOOPS…..SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE ISN’T GETTING THEIR CONTRACT RENEWED.
BUY BYE BILLIE
November 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
DRUDGE??? If you want gossip why not go down to your local bar. Drudge has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pmKristol is busy resurrecting PNAC 2.0. Then he can be repeatedly wrong about just about everything all over again. I never quite figured out why Kristol was such a strong supporter of Palin. My hypothesis is that he saw the potential for another nitwit in the oval office who could be manipulated by the neocons.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pmMaking sh*t up is a lot of work? It’s not like you write novels dirtbag.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pmCatapulting the propaganda, sugar-coating the lies and distortions of the worst administration in history, must be indeed very hard work.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pmSince little Billy Kristol hasnt gotten anything but his NAME right for about 6 years now, I think if the NYTimes is at all concerned with accuracy they could do better by replacing him with Miss Clio and the psychic hotline
November 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pmDavidHart Says: “My hypothesis is that he saw the potential for another nitwit in the oval office who could be manipulated by the neocons.”
I agree completely. It also means job security for pundits such as Kristol, creating smokescreens and preaching their own versions of manifest destiny.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pmKristol may be backing out now that a little light is being shone into their dark little cave.
DRUDGE??? If you want gossip why not go down to your local bar. Drudge has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob.
Hey, don’t be disparaging Baghdad Bob like that! At least he was entertaining. (”No, no, these are not American bullets piercing my body right now.”)
November 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pmWho in the hell cares what Kristol thinks or says EVER. The man is a complete and total fool of an idiot that lives in a right wing fantasy world that has no basis in reality.
Maybe these “press” outfits need to get a clue or simply publish the ravings of known lunatic like Charles Manson. I am so sick and tired of right-wingnuts filling our airwaves, tv screens & newspapers. 99% of them are wrong about EVERYTHING. Period.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pmkristol is sound evidence that used car salesmen can make a living in America.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pmIf for no other reason, the Times should let him go because of his attitude. There are so many American thinkers who would love the opportunity to have a column on their editorial pages.
Ambivalent? Fine, let someone else have the chance.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pmLittle Billy Kristol: “You can’t fire me. I quit!”
November 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pmMaybe we’ll all get lucky and Bill will prefer to spend his time cultivating orchids or something. They won’t really care if he fact-checks or not.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm“A lot of time”?
How much time can it take? It’s not like he checks his facts or anything. He pretty much just vomits out right-wing talking points and apologia, and lets it go at that.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pmWho could possible confuse Little Billy with even a semi-intelligent human being whose opinions and observations were in the least bit interesting or remotely accurate?
. . . misattributing a quote in his first column, counting Clinton out after Iowa, placing Obama at a Jeremiah Wright sermon that Obama didn’t attend, predicting the imminent return of a McCain adviser named Mike Murphy who ended up staying off the campaign, all but predicting a McCain victory, sort of predicting that McCain would oppose the bailout, praising McCain’s “suspension” of his campaign as a smart move, preferring fake populism to professional excellence and Joe the Plumber to Horace the Poet, urging Ayers-Wright attack tactics as the way for McCain to win, basically telling McCain to ignore all the advice Kristol had given him throughout the year, but above all, vouching again and again and again, privately and publicly, for Palin as an excellent Vice-Presidential choice.
With a record like that, I am really surprised that Little Billy didn’t replace Brown at FEMA or get nominated by GDumbya to SCOTUS.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pmIn the end, the issue may come down to money – does his column sell newspapers (or draw online hits), even if everyone wants to see it just to see what foolish, inaccurate, and stupid things he had to say that week? If so, like Rupert Murdoch, it will be “accuracy be damned” and they’ll renew him. I hope they don’t because he is so wrong (as Jon Stewart kindly pointed out to him), but publishing his views gives him a credibility he has never earned.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmApparenly consistently being wrong and causing your employer to issue retractions is a lot of work. What a blowhard.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmEver notice how
November 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmRepublicans work so hard
With nothing to show
If smugness could only be taxed…
November 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pmError prone and on the wrong side of issues for Americans, it’s time for Kristol to seek a lower profile — maybe disappearing from the scene for a few years? or forever?
November 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pmMarie,
As long as there are neo-cons with millions of dollars to waste trying to convince the rest of the world that they’re right and we’re wrong, Kristol will always have a source of income. He has become, for lack of a better term, a “useful idiot.”
November 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pmKristol’s sneer reminds me of the Batman character, the Joker. I have two wishes for this guy. First, that his sneer become permanently affixed on his face (by whatever method available) and that he become a homeless man living in a corrugated box on the streets of New York City.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmKristolMeth is a hardworking, good American – with 3 jobs! But with so many people unemployed, I think he should give up his gig at the NYTimes and let someone else enjoy the high pay and benefits. I’m sure Joe the Plumber is available.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pmOr I’m sure there’s a Heritage Foundation intern looking for a job, or my cat…
“Stretched a little thin”
Now I know what always bothered me about his mug….. it looks like a huge glob of stretched out “silly putty”
Off to your neocon bunker for more of your insightful “guessing” billy.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pmYour irrelevant.
better renew, kristolkocksucker…once jan. 09 rolls around your job prospects will have disappeared.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pmNow don’t pick on Billy like that. After all he comes from a good family. His Dad received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for helping start a war for oil in Iraq. And he was the head of PNAC the Neo-Nitwit organization that advocates “Pax Americana” and “World Domination” like on the cartoon shop “Pinky and the Brain”.
Plus, he was really funny in that movie “City Slickers”…. oh, wait, that was the “Good Billy.
And he’s such a advocate for the working man too…..
“Among conservatives there’s been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, ‘the people’… After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons… We…are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.” – Billy Kristol
from one of Billy’s peasants….
November 18th, 2008 at 7:36 pmWhy is he always smiling? Maybe he just can’t believe he’s gotten away with his overly-compensated hucksterism for so long. Honest work is beyond him…Lucky he’s Irving’s son…
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November 18th, 2008 at 8:06 pmKristol is ambivalent about leaving the Times and we the people couldn’t give a rat’s cheney how he feels. So it seems like an even split.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm