Bill Kristol Blathers, A New York Times Preview

So, as you might have heard, Time Magazine's gain became the New York Times' loss this week, as the Grey Lady, proving it's learned absolutely nothing from the Judith Miller years, handed some of its valuable op-ed column inches to neocon nincompoop Bill Kristol.

Kristol has a track record that stands as a monument to journalism's version of the Peter Principle: blunder your way to a cushy gig at the Paper of Record.

John Amato at Crooks and Liars has teamed with our HuffPost video crew to put together a lowlight reel of Kristol in action, missing the punditry mark again and again and again.

Enjoy your latest acquisition, New York Times!

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Comments

[keemia]

Love how he shriveled in front of Colbert. Only a comedian can put these bozos in their place. Normal people think in a differnet wavelength.

[byrdland49]

Grey Lady - how COULD you? For shame....

[TXfemmom]

Kristol is an egotistical, blindly ideological, dangerous man. If only God would strike him deaf, dumb, and blind, as a warning?

[MNmommy]

Smarmy McSmirky.

One of the most detestable people we're stuck calling an American.

[godlessclif]

Bill Krystal should call his column
"Bill Blathers"

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

What a surprise. Turdblossom junior chose fox noise for his "debut".

Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd will run circles around this journalistic rube. Can't wait.

[StillAmused]

The Bush years will be memorialized as 'The Era Of The Dull-Normal', and Kristol is in contention for the blue ribbon.

Those who qualify criticism of this deranged warmonger with allowances that he's otherwise 'intelligent' don't have a clue what the word means.

Too many beatings on the grammar school playground... and a toxic lifetime of compensation.

[snruB]

This guy is a sniveling ASSHOLE

[andyboy]

Bill embodies fear and agression. His whole persona is one of fending off percieved attacks with over the top Darwinism. Survival of the snarlingest. If he was a fish he'd be a barracuda. On four legs? Jackal.

The diversion of criticism earned for lying about Iran's nuclear ambitions and or capabilities is the topper.

After being found out to be a liar he fends off this truth by taking credit for causing Iran to stop pursuing nukes.

Bill makes the mistake of thinking he's smarter than everyone else. Tha sin of Pride.

[joeblow]

Bill Kristol is a very run of the mill neocon. He talks big but, on a personal level, has very little testicle fortitude.
I get so sick of these red-white-n-blue bastards who are willing to send US troops any place in the world, but have no track record of ever having served their own country. (Lighting a sparkler on the Fourth of July doesn't count.)
Forget that goofball in Kansas. This guy is the original BK Killer!
One final thought: WTF was the Times thinking when it hired this coward?!

[Qbear]

Did Krisol write his thesis in SMARMY?

UGH!...I had to shut off the video after a third of it.

bw. Kristol sends my gaydar....off the charts.

[tbone99]

He predictes Cheney to win by a landslide in 2008!What does he know that we don't .Diebold will spit out the winner , who didn't even have to run.
Scary clip.
Whats the matter with the NYT - is this nostalgia for Judith Miller? Not enough prevaricators on board?

[Soulsurfer]

Brooks is a pro at the "CondiSpeak" method, just deliver your fatally flawed message with an air of flippant invincibility, and dismiss opposition, no matter how factual, with a sly derisive smile and hint at the cluelessness of the opposition, and viola! You're right!

Wonder if Krugman will have to share office space with these characters?.....the NYT needs a "Moe" for their "Larry & Curly".

[Libsrule]

WHY isn't Kristol in an institution? And I don't mean of higher learning but rather one where he is kept in a straight jacket 24/7. The moron hasn't been correct on ANYTHING, yet for some reason idiots STILL think what he says is worthwhile.

I suppose next the NYT will hire David Duke? I mean he has a view doesn't he? Why not allow it on the editorial pages of the Times?

Bill probably was jerking off everynight hoping to become the Minister of Propaganda For the Ministry of Government Information and Propaganda. The fact it didn't happen just grates him to no end. So he keeps spewing his insanity and hatred.

Another step down for the NYT.

[Aanya]

As someone else wrote in the last few days, Kristol will be out of his protected padded cell that he enjoys at Faux News. At the NYT he will hear from each and every person he irritates with his ignorant, incompetent and irrelevant blather. We all know him to be a leading PNAC supporter, and just as his own personal presnit, he can't do one thing right either! Bill Kristol is a hypocrite and as much a war criminal as the rest of his PNAC club. I have no respect or use for any of them. They have destroyed my country and shredded my Democracy.