We didn’t think New York Times “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol’s piece this morning was so bad after a first glance-over — it even had a number of good (i.e. not objectively false) points, about the economy! Wonkette close-reading operative “Kathleen,” however, highlights one incredible sentence that we skimmed over: “So I hope the best and the brightest who will be joining the new president will at least entertain the possibility that a lot of what they think they know is wrong.” Ha ha ha, whee! It’s true! And luckily, Bill Kristol will never have to entertain such a possibility, since it is categorically impossible for Bill Kristol to be wrong. [NYT]
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November 24, 2008
Bill Kristol Orders Other People To Reconsider Their Ideas
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Here’s some thing you may not have known about BIll Kristol:
http://kristolfunfact.blogspot.com/
He’s the Chuck Norris of suck.
Every time someone writes an article
with the words “William Buckley” in it
this year an angel gets his/her/its wings.
i can’t believe you, or anyone else, actually reads what asshole kristol writes.
i stopped, and i don’t miss his crap one little bit.
try it.
substitute vodka if necessary.
Well, he’s neither the best nor the brightest.
Bill –
As you know, you have to go into a new administration with the people you have, not the people you want.
Regards,
Don
Paul Krugman is off today so Bill Kristol takes over?
I hear Hannity is hiring…
Yeah, because if it wasn’t for the unions and the pointed-headed economists forcing the banks to trade tenement holdings with each other for ever increasing price tags none of this would have happened.
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss that other photo of Bill Kristol.
This one doesn’t look asshat-tish enough.
Bill is one of those dudes ya just wanna punch in da face.
Yesterday he was the Sage and Oracle of the Ruling Class, and today he’s the tourist who asks the park ranger if they turn Old Faithful off at night. But I’m sure he’ll power through this setback with his usual humility and bravado.
He’s looking more and more like Cheney with every picture.
Boy, Kristol is a piece of work isn’t he? After eight years of basically getting everything he wants, and having everything turn to shit, he’s unable to admit the remote possibility that the neo-con ethos is to blame.
I like this one.
He looks like a serial killer who
is getting ready to put the clown suit on.
The last time he was on the Daily Show, Kristol bemoaned the liberal media bias and whined at the host: “You’ve been reading the NY Times too much, John.”
A stunned Stewart could be barely get the words out fast enough: “But YOU work for the NY times!”
The crazy homeless guy who asked me for tinfoil and eye of Newt this weekend made more sense then KristolMeh.
Does the Milwaukee Airport really have a used bookstore? Who knew? Of course, who’s been to Milwaukee? And’s not kinda squawky?
[re=185010]Sans the Diaper[/re]: Speaking of serial-killing clowns, here’s some nightmare fuel for ya:
Pogo the Clown, aka John Wayne Gacy
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=475
Kristol sure has caused a lot of trouble. He reminds me of Larry Summers. Once you get a job in the elite circuit, you are set for life, no matter how much you screw up. Just saying.
“All I know is, everything you know is wrong.”
—Prof Harry (“Happy”) Cox
I saw Bill driving out of the garage at Arlington Hospital looking entirely dweebish, laughing with a very attractive, very waspy blonde (who was not his wife, Susan Scheinberg)in the passenger seat.
He churns out chicken soup for the soul of those huddling in Reagan’s bunker.
[re=185010]Sans the Diaper[/re]: That is totally unfair of you to say. First, Mr. Gacy was a Democrat. Second, the deep cowardice that most neo-cons have is pretty good protection against one directly attacking you (even if they might try to get the military to bomb your house).
[re=185031]V572625694[/re]: Indeed. There’s a seeker born every minute!
GlamourDammer:
I don’t have a house.
[re=185019]P.T.T.[/re]: Yes, it does, as well as the obligatory Harley-Davidson and dairy-related gift shops.
So if you’re looking to read a first edition of Slaughterhouse Five in the bitch seat while wearing a foam wedge hat, it’s the place to be.
[re=185025]Aurelio[/re]: Yes, Kristol and Summers are exactly alike, except for the part where Summers is one of the best economic minds of his generation.
Schumer appealed to the authority of economists. Economists still do have considerable sway in our public life — even though it doesn’t seem that a large number of them have been particularly prescient in warning about, or strikingly persuasive in explaining, the current economic situation.
What does that even supposed to mean? Who does Kristol think were supposed to get advice from then, if not economists? Moose-hunting governors?
Economists aren’t gods, Bill. They don’t always see the future. Sometimes they make mistakes. There were a number of economists who had been warning of an impending collapse for some time now. The problem wasn’t with the science of economics, the problem was with greedy bastards who knew things weren’t sustainable, but who wouldn’t stop trying to get rich quick with shady deals.
[re=185031]V572625694[/re]: And call me happy because I am! BTW, is it hotter than Heater in Helmouth today?
[re=185042]jagorev[/re]: As opposed to someone else’s.
Bill is as infallable as a pope. What? Galileo? Earth orbits the sun? Disregard, please
Bill kristol, wake up.
The world is moving on past you and your like.
The shit you speak of, existed in a brutish world. Your world.
We deserve better than what you’ve got to offer.
[re=185035]glamourdammerung[/re]: You’re dog is gay!
Best part of the whole piece? The Grey Lady’s Editorial Board apology at the end, given the preceding economic idiocy:
Paul Krugman is off today.
[re=185019]P.T.T.[/re]: it does! a pretty good one too. I looked for some local stuff and ended up with a book with photos of the Chicago & Northwestern RR.
I thought he was starting up his Boys From Brazil machine again to oppress people like they did in the good ole days (last 8 years)?
[re=185019]P.T.T.[/re]:
Yes, the Milwaukee airport does have a used book store. It’s ok. Depends on what you’re looking for. It’s kinda pricey for a used book store, but I suppose not so bad considering the cover prices of new books.
The guy who owns it has another book store downtown which is a kind of three-story disaster area. Also overpriced.
“lightning rod conservative”, minus lightning and conservative.
Asshat pimped for Palin and now he’s handing out economic advice? Dude, put the suicide vest on and take off your own shit head. K?
[re=185043]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: The problem wasn’t with the science of economics, the problem was with greedy bastards who knew things weren’t sustainable, but who wouldn’t stop trying to get rich quick with shady deals.
You are right, but I do so hate the science too! Argh!
[re=185021]Barrett808[/re]: that would have scared the shit out of me even if there weren’t a serial killer involved.
[re=185063]problemwithcaring[/re]:
Ditto. I suck at the maths and the economics. Humanities grads are supposed to be pretentious and learned, we’re not suppose to know about the useful things that merchants and rude mechanicals dally with.
Wow. Now there’s a reason to go to Milwaukee, other than it being uplake from the Big O. This probably accounts for the fact that Milwaukee congress critters have something other than Reader’s Digest Condensed books with the telltale stripey covers in the background when they give interviews about . . . muskie fishing or something. Crappy fishing? No, George’s FCC wouldn’t let them talk like that on the air.
Don’t you just want to bitchslap her sometimes?
Do you think there’s even a possibility that he realizes what a self-parody he’s become?
By asking that question, I’ve just revealed myself to be as clueless as he is.
[re=185104]Them[/re]: LIGHTNING’s well-educated and carefully formulated response to you:
“No. You’re the clueless one, stupid. YA! I’m right!”
Palin gives Bill a lightening rod.
[re=184987]tsunami[/re]: Works with Maureen Dowd, too.
[re=184982]NewSpence[/re]: Chuck Norris is the Chuck Norris of suck.
That guy is one of the dumbest people writing for WORLDNET DAILY for chrissake.
I mean it’s not just that he’s one of the most annoying internet memes, but he’s got a massive ego and massive amounts of moral majority, Jack Chick levels of stupid.
I’ve worked in government. It’s hard to do much thinking there at all, let alone thinking anew.
Bill, you’ve left government. You can start thinking any time now.
Dr. Kristol is short and fat isn’t he? And that Members Only jacket? What is he? He might as well be at the dog track with a note pinned to his jacket. And today’s column, while not his worst, was definitely phoned in.
[re=185051]FreshCliches[/re]: Now that’s funny…
Do the best and the brightest have to entertain the notion of Bill Kristol?
That picture makes me feel sorry for him, I’m such a liberal sap, and then I remember its friggin’ Bill Kristol and the world rights itself and I go back to loathing the asshat.
[re=185178]ellie[/re]: As a librul, aren’t you supposed to loathe yourself, and yourself alone?
Inquiring minds need to know.
I, for one, beat myself up for every injustice in the world. It doesn’t matter what it is, as a devoted librul I have to.
I just learned that Bill Kristol started out as Dan Quayle’s chef of staff. That explains a lot.
[re=185200]cal[/re]: chief
[re=185200]cal[/re]: I thought Quayle’s staff consisted of an aborted chicken egg and a discontinued dictionary? The guy was fucking doomed.
[re=185200]cal[/re]: “Bill Kristol: A Storied History of Propping up Vice-Presidential Morons”
More laffs for all you Kristoloholics:
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/search?q=sub+prime+kristol+meltdown
The punchline is “meritocracy.”
Bill Kristol makes me anti-Semitic, and I’m Jewish.
“Indeed, one hopes they’re not too invested in the findings of the economics profession of which they’re such distinguished products…”
Billy, their findings come from, i.e., Freemarketers Alan Greenspan, Phil Gramm and Milton Friedman and their libertarian sybil, Ayn Rand.
Not to worry. They will hack, choke and gag on Obama’s Keynesian approach.
Early turnover in the new administration.
[re=185041]FreshCliches[/re]: You mean a cheesehead? Please use the correct nomenclature for the headgear.
And this at the bottom:
Paul Krugman is off today.
The part of Paul Krugman will be played by an incompetent, fallible fool. I has a sad.
Kristol might have been talking of Obama’s economic advisor and possible treasury secretary, Larry Summers. As Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary (1999) Summers was one of the key proponents of the banking deregulation that led to the rise of ‘mega-banks’ and the current financial crisis.
He (Summers) is a free market ideologue, a proponent of free trade and globalization, and will certainly have to entertain the possibility that everything he thinks he knows is wrong. So I guess Kristol is right??? Oh this hurts.
yeah cause that Iraq war thing Kristol wanted, yeah, that’s working out so well, and oh yeah, that neocon economic thing is working out so well too. yeah that Kristol he’s always right on target, must have kristol ball or something (i’m sure that’s been noted a 1000 times, sorry)
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