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If I Ran the Zoo —
Bill Kristol, go fuck yourself.
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... William Kristol: Popularity isn’t everything. There's also being wrong about everything. No, not me, Cheney. Well, me. Also. Whatever. Look over there, it's Blago! ...
Charming to the Last
Shakesville —
... These sentiments received rapturous applause from William Kristol, who has never been shy about being a completely obsequious toady in service of Mr. Cheney. Today he goes further in his column in the New York Times, slavering over his latest rumblings and, taking a cue from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, citing Kipling's "If" as the maxim by which he lived: ...
Bill Kristol Wonders: How High Can I Shovel It Today?
Blah3 Feed —
Little Billy Kristol just loves taking a dump on the op-ed pages in the NY Times. Take today's entry, praising the "straight talkers" like Dick Cheney. Commenting on Big Dick's recent defense of telling Pat Leahy to fuck himself: ...
Popularity Contests
Neptunus Lex —
Will Kristol notes that the two most unpopular politicians of their respective parties are Dick Cheney and Rod Blagojevich. Compare and contrast. (It turns out the Blagojevich has read Kipling. Which is really only surprising because it means that he can read - who knew?)
Perhaps Cheney’s image would have been softened by doing in public what he did in private.
Meanwhile, it’s Christmas in Baghdad. And although I do like Kipling, for my own part - in this context, at least - I prefer Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or ...
Laziest Column in a Major Paper Ever?
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Bill Kristol’s column in today’s NYT (Popularity Isn’t Everything) is a rather anemic entry in the annals of punditry, especially from the pages of a major newspaper (indeed, it makes one long for the days when the NYT kept their columnists hidden behind the TimesSelect firewall).
For one thing, if we take the chunk of transcript from Cheney’s interview on FNS from Sunday and the lengthy quotation from Kipling, we find that 109 of Kristol’s 837 words (13%) aren’t his–and that doesn’t count the other quotes from Cheney and Blagojevich in the piece–indeed, easily a quarter of the ...
Kristol: More on Kipling and Blago
Weekly Standard Blog —
... I comment on Balgojevich’s selective quotation from Kipling’s “If” in a New York Times column this morning. A colleague notes that many Democrats might have preferred that Blagojevich had sought guidance (metaphorically, not literally, one hastens to add) from another Kipling work, “The Young British Soldier” ...
Bill Kristol Not Even Trying Anymore At New York Times
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Anyway, the New York Times has abused their readership by printing Kristol's effort-free nonsense for a year, and they've benefited from it because every time he's penned something, people everywhere react with outrage or mocking or fact-checking or criticism, and that's precisely why he was hired in the first place -- not for quality insight, but for the clicks that come from hosting a weekly intellectual highway accident. So, out of fairness, I'm including a link to this mess, but I urge you: do not click it. You'll only be giving the Times what it wants. ...
Bill Kristol Not Even Trying Anymore At New York Times
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Anyway, the New York Times has abused their readership by printing Kristol's effort-free nonsense for a year, and they've benefited from it because every time he's penned something, people everywhere react with outrage or mocking or fact-checking or criticism, and that's precisely why he was hired in the first place -- not for quality insight, but for the clicks that come from hosting a weekly intellectual highway accident. So, out of fairness, I'm including a link to this mess, but I urge you: do not click it. You'll only be giving the Times what it wants. ...
Last Wishes, Xmas Edition
Whiskey Fire —
... all her interviews; let Bill Kristol take a million pies to the face for each word in the sentence "You gotta love Dick Cheney"; a-and, finally, Santa, I know last year, not really requiring anything else, I asked for "blowjobs," a request which you apparently understood as ironic, which is totally cool, and obviously I don't want to be repetitive, so this year, maybe instead you could have some of your elves add chili peppers to my ratemyprofs thingy? Boy or girl elves, I don't even care! Thanks, Santa. You're awesome. But know this: if you are somehow colluding with Big Oil, ...
Last Wishes, Xmas Edition
Whiskey Fire —
... all her interviews; let Bill Kristol take a million pies to the face for each word in the sentence "You gotta love Dick Cheney"; a-and, finally, Santa, I know last year, not really requiring anything else, I asked for "blowjobs," a request which you apparently understood as ironic, which is totally cool, and obviously I don't want to be repetitive, so this year, maybe instead you could have some of your elves add chili peppers to my ratemyprofs thingy? Boy or girl elves, I don't even care! Thanks, Santa. You're awesome. But know this: if you are somehow colluding with Big Oil, ...
Dick Cheney’s Farewell Snarls
The Moderate Voice —
... William Kristol, in his fond farewell, assures Cheney “Popularity Isn’t Everything” as a new poll shows 23 percent of Americans ranking him as the ...
