July 19, 2007



Why Bush and Bill Kristol are losers
A truly lovely piece by David Corn in the WaComPo nails it:

Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire?

How else to read his piece on Sunday, in which he declared, "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one"? Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself (and his neoconservative pals) for having been so mistaken about so much. But just in case his article was meant to be a serious stab at commentary, let's review Kristol's record as a prognosticator.... {snip}....

His latest efforts should be laughed off op-ed pages.

The Bush-Cheney years have been marked by ineptitude, miscalculation, and scandal. A successful presidency? Bush will be lucky if he gets a public elementary school in his adopted hometown of Crawford, Tex., named after him. He has placed this country in a hole. Yet Kristol, with shovel in hand, points to that hole and says, Trust me -- we're about to strike oil!

If it's true that history repeats first as tragedy and then as farce, Kristol has short-circuited the process and gone straight to parody. His Bush boosterism -- an act of self-justification -- would be amusing were it not for all the damage he has helped Bush to cause.

Bravo, sir. Some of the comments:

Anyone else notice something in this column that wasn't in Kristol's column? That's right... facts.

Thank you for putting that tool back in his box.

The fact that some people still consider him to be a serious pundit probably says more about the deplorable state of American journalism than anything else.

[G]iven the state of Kristol's reputation (and that of his neocon Mafia associates) wouldn't a simple "he's a lying sack of s**t" be sufficient?

The real scandal here is that the Washington Post would publish the Kristol Meth propaganda piece.

"An embarrassment to the profession of journalism": smiling and always wrong, Baghdad Bill Kristol is the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week.

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