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What’s the matter with Bill Kristol?
Over at The Reaction, Heraclitus explains why he used to like Kristol and why now he can’t stand him.
Short explanation: Kristol used to present himself with irony and detachment, but he’s reduced himself to cynical cheerleading for both Bush and the neoconservative worldview to which he is still so ideologically, and unreflexively, committed.
You can find the full post here.
9 Responses to “What’s the matter with Bill Kristol?”
Kristol has spent the last couple of years lambasting Rummy, and attacking Bush for keeping Rummy. That hardly sounds like cheerleading. Now that Bush has fired Rummy, and adopted a strategy WS was pushing, its kinda hard for Kristol to not cheerlead that, now isnt it.
LOL What adisgusting coward, mocking our CiC in a foreign country during wartime. I think a bookburning of the Murdoch rag, The Weakly Standard, is in order. If the Dixie Chicks felt the wrath of the Right for their comments, how is Billy Krisco any different.
There is a technical term for what Kristol has, it’s called a ‘shit-eating grin.’
Why are intellectuals like Kristol and Perle given so much respect as political pundits? They may be brilliant on paper, but have been wrong about just about everything in the real world.
I linked to the Heraclitus post, expecting some substantive criticism. I learned that Kristol’s pundit-worthiness is inversely proportional to his evaluation of Bush (and not much more). Oh well, another wasted two minutes. I won’t step into that river twice.
When Bush is gone then Kristol will become the fully fledged clown he always was but, no one noticed. His neoconservativism has been proven a failure and dangerous and arrogant.
Look for his loss of primacy on the talk shows in a few years
vwcat- I for one, would welcome his absence from them, and have not understood his constant presence. Do any of the neocons even feel the slightest bit responsible for getting us into such an intractable mess??? Most of their writings seem to turf the blame onto Bush (who definitely deserves a big portion of it!)
Kim – Murdoch gave Kristol the seed money to start the Weakly Standard. Murdoch also continued the rag untill it made some money. Now who owns Fox News?
Oh- that makes a lot of sense to me now. Thanks for the info, Rudi!