Jon Stewart: "Oh, Bill Kristol, Are You Ever Right?"

This segment may not have been about new super-qualified NYT columnist Bill Kristol, but how can we resist a Bill Kristol hed? It's relevant insofar as it relates to the news that Fred Thompson dropped out of the GOP race — an inauspicious end to what had been heralded as a great Republican hope. Stewart calls back to that time with a parade of talking heads opining on Thompson's awesome powers of Presidentia (is that a word? It is now). One astute commentator called him Reaganesque, which must've mean that both Hillary and Obama are fans! (Becuase they love Reagan. Just ask them! About what the other one said.) Said Kristol, back in the day: "Fred Thompson knows what he's doing, and he will be formidable." God, those powers of insight. He should really be put to work on some editorial page somewhere. Watch:

The segment also favored Fox Business Channel by including them as one of "the two major financial networks" (ratings be damned!) wherein Stewart described their programming as "Hot Ladies Talk Money With Bald Dudes." Stewart's guest for the program was PJ O'Rourke, discussing his new book about Adam Smith. There's an "invisible hand" joke in here somewhere — oh, to be able to bring that back around to Bill Kristol, but honestly, his stuff doesn't even read like he bothers to type with one.

Comments

[BPCentrisAmerican]

I'm just curious, when his son, who is now attending Harvard going to sign up for the great neo-con-artist, wet dream? I would not hold my breath. As long as someone else's kid, father, mother or daughter dies and bleeds for thier idelogy, thats great, keep those tax-cuts coming.

[joeblow]

Yo, yo, yo....Phredd....We hardly knew ye....wha'evuh the f**k that mean!

[KOisGod]

Kristol, and the rest of the neo-conmen tribe are party to the murder of THOUSANDS of my fellow American's and perhaps a million Iraqi's.

And all this shit head does is smile with those chicken lips and NEVER, EVER - ADMITS HE'S BEEN WRONG.

All these war criminals belong in a prison in Albania, eating worm infested bread and drinking piss.

[shag11]

And the NY Times hired the bastard. Please, please somebody, tell me what that hiring was based on. Was it affirmative action, because they are considered a leftwing newspaper? He's one of the dumbest hi-profiled individuals in the business.

[elr50]

Is Bill Crystal ever right? In a word ....NO!!! Being RIGHT is not a necessity to be a Republican. All you have to be is a good LIAR to be a Republican.

[alkamm]

David Brooks and Bill Kristol: cleverly crafted tie/fishing lures to catch Conservatives who are drawn into reading the NY Times.
Who knows but that their nonsense will either stand out as such, or at least some people will read them along with more accurate, truly smart rather than surface smart columnists.
Such certainty Kristol has in his lying face!

[exxman]

What the hell. He's good for a laugh.

[Libsrule]

Kristol is never funny. He should never be looked upon as anything but pure idiocy and even evil.

Because he is always wrong, he should never be anything but reviled and spit upon everytime he shows his face in public. He is one of those responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings, the destruction of the infrastructure of an entire country, the raping of the U.S. Treasury for war profiteers and helping to divide this country so badly.

FUCK KRISTOL

[KOisGod]

Kristol and his partners in crime are nothing more then shit, covered with human skin.

[Zentomato]

Why Kristol is still considered an expert pundit on anything is just beyond comprehension.

[fantagor]

Bill Kristol, a PNAC numbskull by and by, who hasn't gotten anything correct since he predicted that George Bush would be president, which wasn't so much a portent as him recognizing the rightwing bent of the SCOTUS in 2000.

Randy

[Oldtimer]

Kristol's appearance on Colbert a year ago was very telling as well. Colbert went down the
litany of predictions by the Project For A New AMerican Century and asked him how everything was going. All Kristol could do was laugh with
the studio audience which was balling.

[kellygrrrl]

Oh, Jon, how we missed you.

[poorotis]

No, he's not. Not enough. He may in fact be considered "right", but this is no lock on being 'correct'.

[FightingTheRight]

Billy Crystal comes across as smart and funny.

Bill Kristol comes across as not very smart, but still kinda funny.