Neocon Purge At Time With Kristol, Krauthammer Out

New York Observer:

Two conservative Time magazine columnists are on their way out the door: Neither William Kristol nor longtime contributor Charles Krauthammer will be on contract with the magazine starting next month. Mr. Krauthammer confirmed the news to Off the Record, and a spokeswoman for Time said Mr. Kristol's contract would not be renewed.

And according to two sources familiar with the discussions, Time is in negotiations with National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru to sign him to a contributor contract. Mr. Ponnuru, who in 2006 published The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, has written twice for the magazine over the past month.

Read the whole story: New York Observer

Comments

[unclebucky]

Um.

They traded two old ugly dogs for a new attack dog:

Another reason not to ever buy a Time (or Newsweek) again.

Read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Ponnuru

Ugh.

--UB.

[ibsteve2u]

TIME likely found out Kristol was plotting a pre-emptive nuclear strike on THE NATION...

[V4Vigilance]

BUH-BYE...

[Troubledwawa]

Good. It's a start. The noecons need to be removed for their (rather apparent) hidden agenda.

Good riddance.

[glesslib]

This will free up more time for appearances on Fox for both guys. Be still my heart!!

[truthyguy]

Kristol and Krauthammer finally became an embarrassment with their so-called reporting being nothing more than acts of transcribing White House talking points.

It is impossible to read anything they write because it is so brazenly biased. And forget about watching them flat out lie on talk shows.

Goodbye and bad luck to both.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Time and Newspeak..­.I remember seeing one issue
of both of em where the covers were almost
identical.­..how many MORE media sources have
undergone hostile takeovers and been turned into
propaganda tools for the war? Good riddance
to these two guys...

[ajax2]

Please take these pictures down.

[leatherneck]

God does work in mysterious ways, both these warmongers, have blood on thier hands in their participation in cheer leading this war in Iraq, karma is a funny thing, these two are just the first of many too fall too their evil, beliefs. The neo con hey day is fading, and many cannot see the writing on the wall, people are not buying their lies, rhetoric and with only 27% die hard republicans who still support this white house and its band of war criminals, the next good thing will be watching these 27% divide into their separate camps, the ex-dixiecr­at/racists­, the right wing evangelists/modern day pharisee's, and of course the old stand by crooks in the corporate world, whom have manipulated the two former groups, one sees it in the republicans fighting amongst their would be candidates whom none have any chance in winning national elections which is what is dividing the right wing, they told everyone they would be fiscally conservative, and spend like drunken sailors, during their parties watch the dollar is all time historical low, mortgage industry melt down, recession/­depression if it occurs will be like in the 1930's laid at the republicans door step, rightly or wrongly they had total control in both eras....

[mmckinl]

Good Start ...

The question is why do these liars and failures keep haunting the media pages. How can so many people having been so wrong still have so much exposure.
They stiil trot out people like Kissinger and Coulter !

If the Media ever want even a shred of credibility they need to disasssociate themselves from the idiocy of these idealogs..­.

[mommadona]

COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A BETTER DUO OF NEOCON NABOBS.

NOW, WOULD THEY BOTH PLEASE LEAVE THIS EARTH TO THE PEOPLE WHO WISH TO LIVE IN PEACE?

THEY CAN GO JOIN ROMNEY ON HIS PLANET KOBOL.
I'M SURE FASCISM WILL BE POPULAR THERE.

[mellene]

This move to oust Kristol and Krauthammer couldn't have been soon enough for me. These neo-cons are a cult unto their own. They're most of the reason that we're in this mess in the Middle East thanks to their Project for a New American Century.

[stlrfan]

Time ran out long ago.

[Ginzaman]

It doesn't matter. The FCC relaxed ownership rules. Which means that the necon megacorporations can buy up even more. So it's drop one neocon and buy another.

[DrPaulProteus]

They're about six years of credibility too late. The level of failure one must posess in their prognostications in order to be able to write at Time for this long is astounding.

Maybe Time will hire George W. Bush and Thomas Friedman to replace them.