A lot of liberals are upset with the New York Times for hiring smug right wing talking head and magazine editor Bill Kristol as the voice of conservatives on its op-ed page. We think the Times is just being diabolical. If you want to discredit the right – and don’t we all think that’s always been the Times’ secret agenda – why not give a major platform to the one man who is wrong more than any other Republican powerhouse? Even conservatives admit that you’d be hard pressed to find anyone this side of Britney Spears who has said more dumb things over the past few years. Read this inadvertently hilarious laundry list of wrong-headed predictions from Unclaimed Territory and you’ll see what we mean.
Here’s one example (and it’s not even the worst): “We are tempted to comment, in these last days before the war, on the U.N., and the French, and the Democrats. But the war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. It will reveal the aspirations of the people of Iraq, and expose the truth about Saddam's regime. It will produce whatever effects it will produce on neighboring countries and on the broader war on terror. We would note now that even the threat of war against Saddam seems to be encouraging stirrings toward political reform in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and a measure of cooperation in the war against al Qaeda from other governments in the region. It turns out it really is better to be respected and feared than to be thought to share, with exquisite sensitivity, other people's pain. History and reality are about to weigh in, and we are inclined simply to let them render their verdicts.”
We just wonder if Kristol is in on the joke. If he is, it’ll be a first.
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In that picture, Kristol looks like he has the biggest stick up his ass. Or maybe that's just George W. Bush.