tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1141298007425270766..comments2024-03-28T08:09:19.073-05:00Comments on driftglass: The Inexplicable Mr. Kristoldriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72692611604717535742015-06-02T09:29:15.170-05:002015-06-02T09:29:15.170-05:00Kristol stays on the air because, like most conser...Kristol stays on the air because, like most conservatives, the folk who schedule him don't get satire, but they do know how to piss off liberals.Fritz Strandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733366866269874594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12239060787327204942015-06-02T08:19:12.861-05:002015-06-02T08:19:12.861-05:00As with being rabidly anti-communist in years past...As with being rabidly anti-communist in years past, as long as you are rabidly "pro-Israel" today you will be invited to the all-you-can-eat media buffet. Honesty and rational thinking on the subject are not required -- indeed, they are more of a detriment since sound bites and sound policies are not exactly synonyms.Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14400403564138377737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63341487304199201882015-06-02T06:06:22.998-05:002015-06-02T06:06:22.998-05:00He gets it from his dad:
"I remember back in...He gets it from his dad:<br /><br />"I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration.<br /><br />The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle's chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics.<br /><br />Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon's domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.<br /><br />"With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. 'I oppose it,' Irving replied. 'It subverts meritocracy.' " <br /><br />http://ahistoricality.blogspot.com/2009/09/quotation-it-subverts-meritocracy.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78604958911033774652015-06-01T21:37:12.543-05:002015-06-01T21:37:12.543-05:00The sad part is that for once, he's not wrong ...The sad part is that for once, he's not wrong (well, the tweet isn't, anyhow - if I watch the video my monitor will suddenly stop working due to fistular interference). Racist Rand is playing the same grift his father does, and he's getting away with it because our media never calls them on it.Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14073874839991925932015-06-01T21:15:18.467-05:002015-06-01T21:15:18.467-05:00Also, my reaction to the beginning of WRONG Kristo...Also, my reaction to the beginning of WRONG Kristol's tweet "Can we be honest?", was "there's always a first time."<br /><br />BBWK makes the shortlist of people who, despite my typically extremely peaceful disposition, I'd probably punch in the face if I saw him on the sidewalk. Paul Ryan and several senior members of GWB's maladministration are the other members.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19710620514207351772015-06-01T20:18:23.037-05:002015-06-01T20:18:23.037-05:00The fact that Bloody Bill WRONG Kristol is still g...The fact that Bloody Bill WRONG Kristol is still given a high-profile soapbox to spew his always-wrong warmongering dumbassery is all the proof you need that the media has learned nothing from their Iraq faceplant and, worse, they never intended to learn a fucking thing either.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79638302914972439812015-06-01T20:04:06.899-05:002015-06-01T20:04:06.899-05:00What an awesome tweet. Kristol is describing himse...What an awesome tweet. Kristol is describing himself but doesn't seem to realize it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13190550390894019841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20510134314783300762015-06-01T16:19:58.984-05:002015-06-01T16:19:58.984-05:00Its always projection.Its always projection.janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15648640523579774520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21089067905693062092015-06-01T13:53:49.890-05:002015-06-01T13:53:49.890-05:00Obnoxious blowhard snaps at pompous buffoon.Obnoxious blowhard snaps at pompous buffoon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-38016922555832376692015-06-01T12:39:45.736-05:002015-06-01T12:39:45.736-05:00@Kaye:
Making this perhaps the only subject he ha... @Kaye:<br /> Making this perhaps the only subject he has any authority to speak on ever, and he still fucks it up? I guess that's just what he does...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9132873999197296492015-06-01T11:41:54.709-05:002015-06-01T11:41:54.709-05:00This is so funny cuz Bill Kristol is himself a, I&...This is so funny cuz Bill Kristol is himself a, I'd not the, solipsistic Boomer who's less serious than his father was (in his crazy way).Kayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689395401269847602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35860427729549904972015-06-01T11:32:32.265-05:002015-06-01T11:32:32.265-05:00It's probably the traditional multiple interlo...It's probably the traditional multiple interlocking blackmail scheme, complete with photos and/or video in a bank vault somewhere. Why his victims have not done an Orient Express on him is left as an exercise for the reader...<br /><br />-- From <i>Tales of the White House Basement</i>, forthcoming from Random Penguin Onion Press.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01347115855111060618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18762232658750059892015-06-01T11:04:02.326-05:002015-06-01T11:04:02.326-05:00Drifty, Drifty:
Always with the facts and the log...Drifty, Drifty:<br /><br />Always with the facts and the logic!<br />That way lies madness.<br />Here, have a nice pull on the soma bottle.<br />Now lie down and Herr Doktor Kristol will read you another nice fairy tale.<br />Remember, this is the best of all possible worlds.<br />Journalists are courageous truth seekers and tellers.<br />See how easy that was? <br /><br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19030220158007757662015-06-01T10:22:31.831-05:002015-06-01T10:22:31.831-05:00The most interesting story in American political j...<i>The most interesting story in American political journalism would be the story of <b>exactly</b> how (names, dates, terms of service) it is possible for <b>this particular</b> ghoul to be so untouchable.</i><br /><br />My brainmeats showed their age just now by rephrasing that as "What unholy Headmaster Ritual allows this specific belligerent ghoul to run Manchester schools?"Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.com