Kristol Pens Last New York Times Column, Reportedly Heading To The Washington Post
Kristol Pens Last New York Times Column, Reportedly Heading To The Washington Post
Last November, Weekly Standard editor and prominent neoconservative William Kristol was asked if he wanted to renew his contract as a weekly columnist with The New York Times. “I’m ambivalent,” Kristol said. “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.”
It appears Kristol has resolved his ambivalence. At the conclusion of his Times column today, an editor’s note reads, “This is William Kristol’s last column.” However, Kristol’s last Times screed is unlikely to be a memorable one, as he meandered back and forth (as he usually does) about the superiority of conservatism, without really explaining why. For example:
Conservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of the important issues of the day: about Communism and jihadism, crime and welfare, education and the family. Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to “work” in the real world.
But now Kristol’s tirades against all things progressive may have found a new home. Politico’s “Playbook” reports this morning that “he’s now beginning a monthly column in The Washington Post.” Aside from the monotony of Kristol’s opinion pieces, it might be worth reminding the Post’s editors and readers what they’re in for: factual errors. Some examples:
– Trying to defend criticism of John McCain, Kristol inaccurately wrote that there was “no basis” for the claim that McCain was not in a “cone of silence” when pastor Rick Warren interviewed Barack Obama at a Sattleback Church forum last year. In fact, the Times itself reported the opposite.
– Kristol once wrote that “he could not find a recent primary in which the candidate who would go on to win the nomination lost by as big a margin as Barack Obama lost by (41 points) in West Virginia.” Yet Mitt Romney won Utah with 90 percent of the vote.
Kristol also falsely claimed that Obama had attended a church service at Trinity United when he had not and attributed a quote to the wrong person. Given Kristol’s history with the Times, perhaps the Post will do its readers a service and assign an extra fact checker to his work.
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The apple doesn’t fall from the tree. William Kristol, Grandson of Irving Kristol, infamously known as the “Grandpappy of Neo-Fascism”.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:54 amI am glad he is gone, all he did was channel the Bush WH and all those failed policies. Bye Bill.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:54 amIf only there was a Washington post, in a little square, with crates at hand of rotten fruits and vegetables.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:54 amHe’s basically going from one paper to another. Good news would be that he was leaving one paper never to be heard from again….
January 26th, 2009 at 9:55 amOne has to wonder where all of these criminals will eventually end up after conspiring to lie to congress and the american people about the Iraq war. PNAC is the name of the organization which should go down in flames sometime soon as the perpetrators of crimes against this country. They had it all hatched well in advance of 911.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:58 amConservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of the important issues of the day: about Communism and jihadism, crime and welfare, education and the family. Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to “work” in the real world.
That could very well be one of the most self-delusional things I’ve ever heard a talking head say (FOX Noise is blocked on my television set).
Conservatives have been wrong about everything most of the time which is why we are in this freaking nightmare freefall right now.
Their policies simply do not work.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:58 am911 = patriot act = dissolution of american rights and civil liberties in the name of national security.
patriot act = NSA abuses and illegal spying and torture against all national laws and international treaties.
it’s time to begin connecting the dots right back to 911 on everything that’s wrong with this country. Ken Lay’s Enron files mysteriously disappearing with the collapse of Building 7? Enron was the beginning of the end of our economy. hmmm – makes one wonder.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:00 amWithout 911, none of this would have been at all possible. I wonder if 911 would have occurred if the supreme court and Katherine Harris hadn’t selected Bush as our president?
January 26th, 2009 at 10:01 amthe conservative eggheads still spewing obsolete and inaccurate talking points will soon realize that the american people voted them out of business. They looks absurd these days and have become human punchlines.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:01 amHe’s done all he can for the Times‘ credibility. It is time to move on and do the same at the Post.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:02 amBilly Boy Kristol, the neo-fascist, will job hop for a while before hopping right out of this country to avoid being prosecuted for his part in it all. I wouldn’t want to be any of these guys today (Rove, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzo, Kristol, Feith, and the man who provided bogus law upon which to base their crimes – David Addington). They’ll all be seeing shrinks due to their increasing paranoia and reps with the american people. Soon they will all be in hiding.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:05 amFour months after “Mission Accomplished”, General Kristol was already urging war with North Korea (”regime change” he called it, but that’s what we just finished calling the invasion of Iraq):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKYIeUwMPw
What was that he said about “Conservatives usually right”? We’ve always known they live on Planet Bizzaro, which is the only place I can think of where “Conservatives usually right”.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:05 amThe New York Times is cutting back on its comedy section, huh?
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2009/01/untitled_26.html
January 26th, 2009 at 10:10 amWHERE can I find some drugs that will make me this Delusional? Stop bogarting the good stuff Billy.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:14 amNow if we could get rid of his smarmy face off the tv machine, I’d be a very happy camper.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:17 amWhatever. I used to not read Kristol’s swill in the Times. Now I will not read his swill in the Post. Pretty easy to ignore someone whose biggest claims to fame are having been chief of staff for the least intelligent vice president in history and having disproven the adage that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Billy would kill (or send someone else to kill) for the opportunity to be right just once.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:18 amConservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of the important issues of the day: about Communism and jihadism, crime and welfare, education and the family. Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to “work” in the real world.
About communism, they weren’t right – it fell apart internally, not because of republican policies of containment.
About Jihadism, they were wrong, since they continue to ignore the fact that their policies are all howling failures, and only paying Sunnis to stop attacking American troops has worked.
On crime, their policies have overloaded the prisons with non-violent drug criminals, and their welfare policies have left thousands of folks with no way out of poverty.
NCLB is the biggest unfunded joke in the educational system, and their abstinence only family policies have increased both the teen pregnancy rate, and the number of victims of sexually transmitted disease.
He’s got a big goose egg to show for eight years of republican rule – unless he’s referring to packing the Supreme Court with conservatives, which has been their singular victory.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:19 amHell, just one fact checker could handle it. Every thing he writes is a lie…..
January 26th, 2009 at 10:19 amKristol Pens Last New York Times Column, Reportedly Heading To The Washington Post»
– - What’s the over/under on how many incorrect facts Billy has in this column?
January 26th, 2009 at 10:25 amAbleCluster flagged for spamming
January 26th, 2009 at 10:27 amLose the Times, gain the Post. SSDD.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:28 amGreat big loud sloppy raspberries to the Washing Post. A once great paper that with decisions like Kristol is headed to a bright future as recycled toilet paper.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:35 amI look forward to the day this doooooshbag’s pie hole is shut for good.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:40 amI hope the Post shows some foresight, and lays down tarps in the hallways for Kristol’s coming. Those bloody footprints are hell to get out of the carpet…
TP, please put up another thread. Exposing us to that grinning jackal-head might be considered unusual punishment, in some jurisdictions.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:40 am#
24. Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
He should just pack it in and head to the Washington Times. He would fit in perfectly.
My sentiments exactly. He’s going to join such luminaries as Krauthammer, Hiatt, Gerson, and Novak.
It’s only par for the course for the 2nd “Liberal Paper of Note”.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:41 amWhy? Was the Washington Post staff in need of IQ reduction?
January 26th, 2009 at 10:47 amHi Able Cluster:
It isbn’t very private when all you do here is blab on and on about it.
Could everybody please throw some spare change at Able Cluster? Times are tough apparently
January 26th, 2009 at 10:49 amtheres nothing that succeeds like complete and total failure if youre a republican shill. being a total mediocrity also seems to help.
if only the rest of us were so lucky to be able to sell out souls on an hourly basis and be able to live with it.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:53 amAnd of course they’ll simply have to give him a large-windowed corner office – so they can adequately ventilate the sulphur fumes…
January 26th, 2009 at 10:54 amDamned librul media!!
January 26th, 2009 at 10:54 amclusterphuck- FLAGGED for ad-spamming
Fred keeps beating me to the punch, but I seem to get in 2nds. All others join in, the more, the merrier.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:55 amMr. Armbruster, you did not mention that the article which states, “Kristol once wrote that “he could not find a recent primary in which the candidate who would go on to win the nomination lost by as big a margin as Barack Obama lost by (41 points) in West Virginia.” Yet Mitt Romney won Utah with 90 percent of the vote” already CONTAINS a correction at the foot of the column, a correction MENTIONED with the title. And you misspelled “Saddleback.” Those of us who prefer not to accept, blindly, even the words of those who basically share our concerns, do notice when those words which recommend the hiring of fact-checkers need fact-checking themselves.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:00 amthe new york slimes is still around? that outlet is even more ignorant than odormann
January 26th, 2009 at 11:11 amdbadass Says:
Could everybody please throw some spare change at Able Cluster?
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How about a nice brick? It has more heft and travels farther…
January 26th, 2009 at 11:12 amponyboy works at the carnival, the pony ride with all the sad eyed ponies tied to a revolving wheel. Around and around, in a rut, the same tune, over and over…
January 26th, 2009 at 11:15 amtelestai2 Says:
Mr. Armbruster, you did not mention that the article which states, “Kristol once wrote that “he could not find a recent primary in which the candidate who would go on to win the nomination lost by as big a margin as Barack Obama lost by (41 points) in West Virginia.” Yet Mitt Romney won Utah with 90 percent of the vote” already CONTAINS a correction at the foot of the column, a correction MENTIONED with the title.
Which anyone who clicks on the link will discover for themselves. It’s not like TP’s trying to obfuscate something here. And your criticism of a typo?
You’re straining at gnats.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:17 amponyboy, what kind of a person uses ponyboy as a username? I got to tell you, my imagination is running wild and it aint pretty.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:18 amponyboy, what kind of a person uses ponyboy as a username?
January 26th, 2009 at 11:35 am—
The Outsider kids were so lame. Still stay golden ponyboy
Kristol’s stupidity is beyond words, and he displays it with every single column he writes.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:51 amAfter the Post, it will be Marvel, followed by Dell.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:54 amKristol would make a great Ed McMahon to the ever so popular and entertaining Mike Huckabee Comedy Show.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:59 amYou’ve got a point there, boywithtinyhorse. Keith Olberman would never be dumb enough to hire a stupid, dishonest, scumbag like Bill Kristol.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pmI find it totally incomprehensible how clowns like Kristol, who really contribute absolutely NO FACTS or reasoning to any conversation — only warped opinion like Barnes, Coulter, Krauthammer, Limbaugh, Malkin, etc –continue to exist in the limelight! Over the last eight years this group of people has been such a major turnoff to me that should he or any of them appear with any regularity in the Washington Post, MY SUBSCRIPTION will be terminated at once. They all currently reside in Rupert Murdoch’s media world and do not need to expose themselves in mine!
January 26th, 2009 at 1:06 pmwingnut affirmative action – no qualifications needed (cough Rush Limbaugh) but only the willingness to carry the water for corporations and neocons…
January 26th, 2009 at 1:24 pmThats great, now this hack can live in DC and be closer to his lobbyist friends and cronies
January 26th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThe New York Times probably would have kept him, except the annual bill for ink to print the Kristol generated retractions and corrections was running into the millions.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pmON the plus side, the Washington Post online has some of the more angry anti-Bush Jr, anti-GOP & anti-neocon commenters you’ll read on the net.
The neoclowns, and their blue dog dem apologists, get shredded when they or their overpaid village idiots AKA right-wing pundits, try spinning their BS to an audience that just can’t wait to tear these whiners apart.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:16 pmWhy do arrogant obnoxious rightwing reactionary elitist a-holes like Kristol immediately make me want to start talking about the good sides of Communism and jihadism…?
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January 26th, 2009 at 4:38 pmWhat a punk…
January 26th, 2009 at 4:40 pmWilliam Kristol is a great horror writer.
His 2008 election stuff was better than Stephen King’s “The Stand”.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:41 pmI just canceled my subscription to the Washington Post.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:02 pmHe would do better at The Onion.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pmok – so I got a phone call from the Washington Post this am – to renewal my membership. I think I will call them back and say no way in hell if this piece of crap is in the OP-ED page.
Seriously – this guy has cost the lives of lost of lost of people with his propaganda crap.
WE ARE TIRED OF THEM!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:43 pm