How else to explain that newspapers continue to pay this idiot to write op-ed pieces despite the fact that he has been consistently and egregiously wrong about nearly everything he has ever said?
You would think that once the war in Iraq and the nomination of Sarah Palin failed so spectacularly people would wise up and stop paying this buffoon to write opinion pieces. But nope, first the New York Times and now the Washington Post continue to write checks to an ignoramus with a worse track record of being right than the Bishop of Ussher.
If any doubt remained that market participants often act irrationally, the fact that newpaper publishers believe this guy’s opinion has value has surely erased it.
The neocons and the Libertarians have been thoroughly discredited. Kristol should be glad tarring and feathering is defunct. Why anyone would ask his opinion escapes me. Comedy relief?
It’s the liberal media, they’ve created a extensive and plausible fake conservative media that does nothing but spew absurdities, spread hate, and complain that they have no voice. The actual, sensible, thoughtful conservative media that actually addresses economic issues is only written down on a piece of bark and is passed around by hand. It’s sad, really.
Link? If there’s a good recent example of Kristol’s idiocy, don’t tease us, give us the goods.
What the hell do the Times et al. care if he’s right? All that matters is if he draws in readers. And you apparently read his column. It worked. “Harry Potter” isn’t true, either, but that doesn’t mean J.K. Rowling’s publisher was stupid to pay for the rights to it.
Have kinda soft spot for the stupid buttscratcher, he’s so relentlessly cheerful and confident, even when revealed again! as dumber than a box of rocks.
Link? If there’s a good recent example of Kristol’s idiocy, don’t tease us, give us the goods.
What the hell do the Times et al. care if he’s right? All that matters is if he draws in readers. And you apparently read his column. It worked. “Harry Potter” isn’t true, either, but that doesn’t mean J.K. Rowling’s publisher was stupid to pay for the rights to it.
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Here it is. Once I realized it was by him I didn’t read it, so I can’t really tell you what it was about.
I was mostly joking. But, any readership they gain from him is more than taken away from by the loss of the value of newspapers’ business goodwill resulting from him being associated with their op-ed page.
Like it or not, there’s a market for this stuff. I mean, Rush Limbaugh’s not rich because he won the Lotto. Tens of millions of people eat this stuff up and ask for seconds.
And anyway, what’s wrong with his October 27 column? You should have read it, dude. He’s being very modest in his predictions. His claims are essentially twofold: 1. that the Republican Party is going to get more conservative in the near future, and 2. that the 2012 nominee is likely to be a very conservative non-office-holder. I’m certain Point 1 is correct - indeed, it’s the consensus of almost vevery observed on this message board - and Point 2 is pretty likely. That’s why I’d already gladly put $100 on Obama to win re-election in 2012. The Republicans are almost certainly going to get more conservative over the next few years (as Kristol says) and it’s probably going to cost them the next run at the White House (which Kristol doesn’t speculate on in this column) because they’ll run Mike Huckabee or some similar goober. The GOP won’t wise up until 2014-2016 at the earliest.
Not a great example of Kristol’s history of awful predictions, at least compared to the whoppers he was writing in 2002 and 2003.
Frankly, that quote covers about half the pundits out there, IMO. Shit, people like Carville and Matalin get work as pundits while simultaneously actively working on campaigns.
Weird. I posted to this thread yesterday and my post’s not here.
Anyway, the reason people keep giving Kristol jobs is because for 15 years he was the one pulling half the Republican Party’s strings. You can blame (or thank, if you’re a masochist) Kristol for probably at least a third of everything that went wrong in government since about 1990.
Not to Godwinize the thread or anything, and I’m not comparing Kristol to Hitler, but he was wrong about everything and people still read Mein Kampf; Kristol was wrong about nearly everything, so people read him.
Hey, the Times had him under contract for one year and then fired his ass. I think it was to address the hate from the right. Sure they have Brooks, but he makes sense every once in a while, and so isn’t a real conservative.
What it actually says is he is backed by rich and powerful people. Even after the Libertarian/Bush /Cheney fiasco, they are still standing. Pearle, Wolfowitz and few others are being pretty well pigeonholed right now. But they have not gone away. They are still live and well in the banking industry. it is time for an American purge.