The New York Times Does It Again

The Pride of the Gray Lady

NYT Op-Ed Columnist Bill Kristol

I really can't even stand it anymore. Was The New York Times ever really the "paper of record" as people like to say? Or is that just a line of marketing bullshit? Whatever it was, it's really just another fishwrap rag now. For the latest on this unbelievably bad political hackiness, click here to read Glen Greenwald's scathe. No sense in my repeating it all here, but I'll summarize. Kristol tries to belittle Obama's campaign fortitude after the West Virginia primary, by saying that he cannot recall a "single recent instance" where a candidate lost a primary by 41% and then became his party's nominee. Apparently neither Kristol nor any of his editor friends at the Times could remember as far back as 3 months ago when John McCain lost the Utah primary to Mitt Romney by 85%. These are newspeople? Or reporters? Or something?

This is so demoralizing. We need to know that somebody out there is upholding standards. Who are our pillars? Where are you?

This would never happen at Bloomberg.

Anyone know how this guy managed to get a Harvard Ph.D.?

William Kristol - Dangers of Affirmative Action

SCOOP!!!

Bill Kristol Discovers That Obama Is a Muslim Communist!

Dumbest Intellectual Alive William Kristol

The New York Times has done it again. Doesn't that paper have any editors? Why not just hire Bill O'Reilly and get it over with?

This is what happens when newspapers use quotas to fill their positions for reasons of political "diversity." We end up with nitwits like Bill Kristol polluting the pages of political punditry.

In case you missed it, William Kristol, the "neo-conservative" columnist for the NYT, has reviewed the recent observations of Barack Obama that people who are out of work and in financial distress may take comfort in their church. After allegedly reviewing his old college text, The Marx-Engels Reader (apparently even Harvard doctoral programs don't bother to make their students read original texts), Mr. Kristol squeezed his eyebrows together real hard until an idea popped out. When poor people go to church and feel better, that's Communism! Or maybe Capitalism. Or maybe it's what Communists say about Capitalism. Or something.

Who knew?

So obviously Obama is a Communist. Or else he's calling people in Pennsylvania Communists. Or else he's calling churches Capitalists. Or he's saying if you go to Church then you are a Capitalist patsy. Who loves guns.

Well, whatever Bill means, what we can take away from his otherwise nonsensical column is that obviously Obama said a very bad thing, and he is obviously very bad, and probably a Communist product of a Muslim school. Like Columbia or Harvard.

Kristol Pie

Well , guess what? A lot of people live hand to mouth in this country. And they are patriotic. Do you know what some of them believe in? God, family, and country. And when times are hard and money is low, people can still go to church, they still have their family, and they can still be thankful and proud to be an American. That's what I thought about when I heard Barack's comments. I think he spoke the truth.

I think it's the people who are trying to twist his words who are being elitist.

And about the guns. Do you know why a lot of people like guns? Not so they can kill a deer once a year, though that's the reason for some people. But for many it just makes them feel safe. It makes them feel independent. That's important.

I'll bet Limbaugh and Hannity and O'Reilly are already babbling ad infinitum about Kristol's point, and that "liberals" are elitists who will disagree thus proving their elitism. So there!

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly

at a Recent Hillary Fund Raiser

I swear, it's like watching bullshit in a blender.

Friday's Random Thoughts

Ready For The Weekend

Bikini Girl

1. Why does anybody care about the Olympic Torch? And why is it in San Francisco on a trip from Greece to China?
2. I really do think John McCain is going senile.
3. The more I see of Hillary the more I am convinced that she lives in the middle of her own mental Hillary-world.
4. So I guess Kansas won the April Madness basketball tournament in dramatic fashion. Too bad it happened after baseball's opening day so I didn't care anymore.
5. Mafia boss Silvio Berlusconi is about to take over Italy? Who knew? Is this good or bad for us?
6. Bad Obama trends: He's starting to stiffen up like John Kerry and she's starting to sound like Angela Davis.
7. From where I sit, the economy already seems to be bouncing back. Sunday's Hispanic Nights at Wal-Mart are as busy as ever.
8. The more I think about bailing out our over-mortgaged homeowners, the less I like the idea. If they get their mortgage reduced for being stupid, shouldn't I get the same discount for being responsible?
9. I've heard a few reporters and pundits start referring to the Iraq War as a "proxy war" between us and Iran. The problem with that theory is that we don't have a proxy. Yet another Viet Nam parallel! If we are going to have a proxy war, let's get a real proxy. (For you yungins, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong were viewed as proxies of the USSR, which was a Russian Communist empire in the 20th century that we thought was going to nuke the US someday. But they didn't. We also thought that the commies would follow us home on a bunch of red dominoes if we gave up. But they didn't. Hmmm.)
10. I have to look up the spelling of "parallel" every time I use it.
11. I'm convinced that those New York Times columnists have a game of seeing who can insert the most esoteric word into the paper. Today's entry is "hippocampically" by David Brooks, which is an adverb that he apparently just made up from "hippocampus" that refers to two memory storing parts of our brains. Frankly, I think he has misspelled it. For good measure, Mr. Brooks also managed to squeeze in "aphasia," "langniappe," and "mnenomic"
12. NASCAR should jump on the Green Bandwagon (Hah!) and start running preliminary races of alternate fuel powered cars. Talk about an obvious win-win. Imagine all of those elitist, tree hugging intellectuals shoulder to shoulder with cap-wearing, chickenbone throwing rednecks, as they cheer on Dale Jr. and Jeff Gordon in their solar panelled, battery powered go-karts. It could all be so . . . democratic.
13. Spring is in the air. Time to start thinking about getting down to swimsuit weight!

Swimsuits

Have a fun weekend!