Comments on: MoveOn’s Alex and John McCain’s One Hundred Years in Iraq

By: lurxst

lurxst — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:11:29 +0000

Kristol's record of ever being right, or even observant, is horrible. Even in his dense mind the ad struck a nerve. Its a pretty compact and effective ad. And the base fact is that it uses McCain's own statements against him. He either has to ignore it or publicly flibberty flub his way through clarifying his statements.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/politics/1...

By: runasim

runasim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:07:00 +0000

The sad thing is that Kristol gives conservatism a bad name.
There have been conservative spokesmen in the past whom I could respect even as I disagreed,
Kristol is a bare-knuckled party attack dog, while posing as an intellectual.
He was unmasked a long time ago.

By: Mike_P

Mike_P — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:14:21 +0000

Doesn't Kristol understand McCain is not/was not a General Officer? Probably not, having never served himself. In any case, why does a relatively obscure ad that will be seen by few actual TV viewers disturb him so much that he devotes precious column inches of the most valuable newspaper real estate in the country to criticizing it?

Could it be the ad struck an exposed nerve?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:45:19 +0000

I also might stand corrected but I also don't recall Kristol leaping to defend John McCain from the horrible smears in South Carolina in 2000.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:10:03 +0000

Kristol cannot criticize others for not wanting to join the military. If you looked up 'chickenhawk' in the dictionary, his picture would likely accompany the definition.

By: aba23

aba23 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:58:52 +0000

I value good faith opinions on the issues of the day. Kristol may have been capable of this once, but his work at the Times to date has not only been biased beyond mere "viewpoint" opinion writing, but has suffered from being inexcusably poorly reasoned, poorly researched, and poorly fact checked.

Nevertheless, he is rewarded almost weekly with extraneous commentary (mostly negative) that brings the Times more attention and nytimes.com more hits. Kristol should be rendered persona non grata by those who seek (rightly) to marginalize his latest hackery.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:50:57 +0000

If Billy Kristol, and by extension his family, really thought that Iraq and militant Islam is an existential threat to the West and Israel, what are his children doing to fight this menace? For all the rhertoric from pundits the likes of Billy Kristol, where are your Pat Tillman's? Cheetos stained hands don't count for national service.