Fred Hiatt on Kristol: ‘I thought he wrote a good column.’
Fred Hiatt on Kristol: ‘I thought he wrote a good column.’
Today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol wrote his final column for the New York Times and — despite a dismal record with the facts — will soon take up residence at the op-ed pages of The Washington Post. Noting that “[i]t’s extraordinary to see the job security someone like Kristol enjoys,” Steve Benen asked, “In what universe does the nation’s second most prominent newspaper decide it wants to pay and publish the failed cast-off of its chief rival?” Perhaps a universe in which Fred Hiatt is boss. The Post’s editorial page editor explained the decision:
“I think he’s a very smart, plugged-in guy,” Hiatt told Politico, “and the question of how and whether the conservative movement and the Republican party are going to right themselves, and redefine themselves, will be one of the really interesting subtexts of the Obama era.” [...]
“I thought he wrote a good column,” Hiatt said, of Kristol’s work at the Times.
It does seem fitting that Hiatt — whom Forbes magazine has said is the nation’s third most influential liberal — would think highly of Kristol. After all, both fervently advocated and continue to support the Iraq war, both defended the Bush administration’s leak of Valerie Plame’s CIA identity, and both seem to have trouble making sure their editorials are 100 percent truthful.
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January 26th, 2009 at 2:26 pmColeman’s Election Contest
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January 26th, 2009 at 2:26 pmThis guy is an idiot. What else would he say…?
January 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pmcaption…
January 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pm“I love you Bill…”
If only the people who were right about Iraq could get this level of respect.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:31 pmIt’s amazing to me how many of these Republican ‘pundits’ keep getting recycled from media outlet to media outlet when liberal and progressive ‘pundits’ aren’t even allowed in the door.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:31 pmThe famous brother-sister act of Hiatt and Kristol. Both wrong, all of the time. Both still employed? So much for the fact based community of reality. Could you be wrong 80-90% of the time and STILL keep you job? Me neither.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:34 pmKristol: ‘I thought he wrote a good propaganda column full of lies and misdirection.’
There fixed it…Kristol is part of the problem in this country.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:35 pmKlown.
Hiatt is one of the people that Forbes listed as an “influential liberal” in one of the most ridiculous lists ever compiled by man or beast.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:38 pmWingers have never allowed the truth, reality, or facts get in their way. Case in point FAUX Noise and Weekly Standard.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:39 pmI had no idea hiatt is considered a liberal in some quarters. He has been nothing but a rightwinger in his wapo editorials.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pmThe list in Forbes is completely pathetic. When will the media stop asking rabid conservatives what liberals think?
Yeah, yeah, I know … when the media isn’t run by rabid conservatives.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pmOn zionist war pig supports another zionist war pig.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pmWhat a surprise…
I would put too much faith in a list that INSISTS Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens are “liberals”…or in any list that still refers to progressivism as liberalism. Wankers. Study your political theory, you establishment hacks.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:54 pm“I thought he wrote a good column,” Hiatt said, of Kristol’s work…
…and I think GW Bush will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents”, continued an obviously inebriated Hiatt.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:55 pmBilly Kristol continues his comedy writing, intentional or not, at the Washington Post.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pmHelen, Rw’er……you just make shit up to fit your lie don’t you? Tell the truth, you do don’t you?
January 26th, 2009 at 3:01 pm*Gasp* A media figure propping up the distorting media pundits that perpetuate the media’s slant on military/industrial imperial aspirations of multinational corporations which own…media companies.
No one could have predicted…
January 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pmUmberto Eco. Now, that’s an impressive biblio reference.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:09 pm“I think he’s a very smart, plugged-in guy,” Hiatt told Politico, “and that I’m presently floating in a six-dimensional landscape of magical colors while tiny cats eat my brain.”
Is it any wonder newspapers are dying?
There are a lot of unemployed people who could write a better column than Kristol. In fact, you could go pick a random homeless person out of a cardboard box and they could write a better column than Kristol. Or Hiatt.
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windsor Says:
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I couldn’t find such a thing on the Internets. Can you provide a hyperlink to your imagination? Thanks.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:20 pmJebus. If that’s a liberal…then I’m the friggin’ Pope.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:20 pm“I think he’s a very smart, plugged-in guy. I thought he wrote a good column,” Hiatt said, of Kristol’s work at the Times. Hiatt went on, “I also think if you hear the cry of an owl, someone will die soon, and that if I swallow my gum it will stick to my ribs.”
January 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pmlil Billy kristolmeth is one step closer to his final destination…the washington times where he will be the reverand sum yung moon’s beyotch boy for the rest of his pathetic life.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pmLittle man Fred Hiatt is no liberal.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:29 pmIt’s a shame Kristol didn’t stay on, as a perpetual reminder of far the NYT has fallen.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:30 pmHiatt’s a liberal? Since when?
The folks at Forbes apparently think anyone who didn’t vote for McCain = LIBERAL! As does a majority of the media in this nation. It’s the only way an admitted conservative like Andrew Sullivan can keep being labeled as a liberal.
It’s sad, really, that we’ve become so polarized as a nation that people who disagree with conservatives on one or two issues — and only one or two issues — are no longer considered conservatives, while anyone who agrees with one or two liberal positions are automatically considered liberal.
Life ain’t that either/or. Not sure why all these stupid lists need be.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pmHiatt’s completely out of touch — as are the rest of the right wing screechers he employs at WaPo (Krauthammer, Will, etc.). The fact that he felt he had to add yet another pompous a$$ to his stable is yet another reason why I’m cancelling my subscription to WaPo (it’s down to Sundays only at this point, which will soon be one day a week too many…).
January 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pmFred Hiatt’s a Neocon.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pm“I think he’s a very smart, plugged-in guy…”
Plugged in to what?
January 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pmThe WaPo second most prominent paper in US? Not for more than twenty years. It is neck and neck with the Moonies WaTimes in the race for irrelevance. Oh, and I’m betting on the Moonies in the long run.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:27 pmAnd of course Fred Hiatt is a liberal. Just ask Forbes magazine or a Republican.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:39 pmHey windsor,
Why don’t you state your position on something instead of cutting and pasting?
Or do you only
January 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pmshare the same ‘wide stance’ position as Larry Craig?
windsor Says:
So then being an ignorant, brainwashed punk troll is pretty much all you do then
January 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pmIt’s just a silly game that right-wingers have enjoyed playing for some time. They go around calling each other liberals, then spew some stupid, vile, right-wing bullsh!t in order to discredit liberals.
It’s a dumb gambit, but there are enough dumb people to fall for it that it is worthwhile for them to continue.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pmKristol is an icon for the faithful.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pmIsn’t the Weekly Standard published by Mad Magazine? Word is that Fred Hiatt is an Alfred E. Neuman wannabe.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:34 pmI don’t recall seeing Windsor before, but I believe that his #14 is supposed to be a joke because it is so opposed to reality.
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