Think the collective pinheads at NRO will explode when they try to comprehend the fact that the Washington Post hired Kristol just so angry/drunk libtards will go to their homepage just to laugh at him?

Run away from the bet, Jim, it’s a trick. Kristol “is easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America.” And, if you worked at the Times, you be troubled by the fact that the movement that was brought to prominence based on the writings of Safire and Buckley has been reduced to that?

It would be like if I bet you that Jenna Bush is by far the most sober of the Bush children.

“…while there [Kristol] offered views and facts to its readers that they otherwise didn’t get…”

…Didn’t get because none of those facts could be corroborated by, like, other news organizations or journalists of repute.

JEEBUS CHRIST WHY ALL THE KRISTOL? This is beginning to scare me.

Who are the OTHER intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America?

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I thought so.

Put lipstick on the swine and it still opines. Shit.

[re=229036]honkeyman[/re]: In the “D” page of the op-ed section. DOPED.
The rest are on page “H.” HOPED.

Bill Kristol… is easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America

I’m willing to entertain that notion. I mean, think about it: Guy’s up against Sarah Palin, Joe The war correspondent Plumber, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh… etc.

I mean, face it: the contemporary Right is basically little more than a colony of diseased rats dining hungrily and insatiably upon a stagnant cesspool of putrid human refuse.

And Rush Limbaugh is claiming that President Obama is scared of him. I’ve often thought a dose of psychedelics would cause these neos to see the light but they may drugs even I haven’t heard of.

Well, the market (or the investing class) seem to support Billy K’s move to the Washington Post, which went up today in comparison to the NYT:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NYT#chart1:symbol=nyt;range=1d;compare=wpo;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

However, a 1-day result is not a long-term indicator. NRO, please tell all your fans to put 100% of their portfolio into the WPO to support Billyboy. You can’t go wrong!!!*

*NYT shares down 60+% over last year, while the Kristol-free WPO down ONLY 40+%. Let’s hope there are an abundance of Mexican billionaires ready to bail them out.

(for the rest of us, SHORT WPO NOW!!!)

“Bill Kristol… is easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America”
Not setting the bar too high, I see.

Yeah, the guy’s a dick, but he was pretty funny in The Princess Bride.

With a name like “Lightning Rod Conservative” you’d think he’d take the time off to do porn.

I would buy a copy of the New York Times if they ran a publisher’s editorial about why they got rid of BillK. They’d have to talk about his purity, his blinding clarity…

“Bill Kristol’s vision–his blinding pure sense of The American Way–was too much for the tattered pages of this daily to contain. Each morning we beheld his uncanny clarity and shuffled to our offices to drink away the shame of shackling him on these unworthy pages.

William Kristol is too good for this fallen world. We sincerely hope the Post can erect the podium for his brilliance that we were unable to provide.”

[re=229092]facehead[/re]: I’m pretty sure Wonkette has been vying for Meaghan McCain since last February. She is the future face of the Palin Party.

If Billy the K would write editorials prognosticating the exact opposite of whatever his instincts tell him to say, his perfection would scare all of us. Him most of all.

There is more talk about kristol around here than there is in Wasilla on a cold night in February.

Holy Crap! Prez Obama had a double secret late night meeting tonight with the Muslins & Prez said he wants to listen to what they have to say. Tomorrow Limbaugh’s head will esplode.

Limbaugh looks like a severely bloated Kristol, who loses some of his wrinkles as his face gets fatter. They could be related. Still, I pre-emptively beg our Wonkette to never show the real face of either of them in this blog.

He was a good Oscar™ host, also

Newell, while you’re ranting and raving about the colossal failure that is William Kristol — President love a terrorist gave his FIRST interview since he became president to the terrorist network Al-Arabiya. Yes the same one that Rumsfeld said was “openly hostile to US interests”. Hopey even bragged about his terrorist heritage and that he is in fact a citizen of Indonesia (it was implied).

[re=229028]Atheist Nun[/re]: Wise words, wise words…

[re=229088]Giant Robot[/re]: [re=229131]Dreadful Gate[/re]: Is there something about this joke that I am missing? Specifically, how it is still funny, now, after the 800th time?

Oh, yeah. Because this has not been picked up by Wonkette, “Gonzo Agonistes”:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99864126
Ex-AG Gonzales: ‘I Should Have Been More Engaged’
NPR, January 26, 2009

[re=229160]S.Luggo[/re]: He meant to say, “I should have been more engorged. All that torture still did not give me the hard-on of my dreams.”

Hey you jerks! I wish you’d just shut up about this jerk and pay more attention to me. I’m easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices whose name begins with ‘Lascaux’ and ends with ‘man’ commenting on Wonkette.

Is the middle of my Venn diagram bigger than NRO’s? Possibly!

[re=229162]Darehead[/re]: At the end of the article, “… Gonzales has begun to re-emerge on the public stage. In fact, Gonzales, Ashcroft and Clinton administration Attorney General Janet Reno are scheduled to appear together April 20 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as part of a speaker series called ‘The Minds that Move the World.’”
Me have aneurysm.

[re=229121]2druk2phluq[/re]: +1 for advanced Titanology.

[re=229161]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s because, unlike Count Blagula, Gonzo had to live in meany-mean D.C. From the NPR article:

Dealing With ‘A Mean-Spirited Town’
In [Gonzales'] wide-ranging conversation with [NPR Reporter] Martin, during one of only a handful of interviews he has given since stepping down under pressure on Aug. 27, 2007, Gonzales retained his usual low-key demeanor.
But [Gonzales] frequently returned to what has become his recent coming-out theme: that he has been targeted by critics of the Bush administration’s most controversial policies — from torture policies that violate the Geneva Conventions to secret surveillance of citizens — because of his close relationship with the president. And that Washington is a “difficult town, a mean-spirited town.”
“Sometimes people identify someone to target. That’s what happened to me,” said Gonzales, who served as President Bush’s White House counsel before becoming attorney general in 2005, replacing John Ashcroft.
“I’m not whining,” [Gonzales] said. “It comes with the job.”
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QED.

“Bill Kristol… is easily among the most intelligent, creative, and articulate conservative voices in America—a fact, upon which I would be willing to bet a large sum of money, is what troubled the Times.”

Now let’s take a look at that post-hyphen clause.

a fact, upon which I would be willing to bet a large sum of money, is what troubled the Times.

And remove the aside in the commas.

a fact… is what troubled the Times.”

“A fact is what troubled the Times.” But which fact this is, he does not say, or even give any indication. Perhaps he meant to say “a fact WHICH is what troubled the Times”? No, surely no one who could see the literary eloquence of Bill Kristol would miss such a necessary word. So the fact which troubled the Times was probably NOT the greatness of Kristol’s writing. As such, we are left merely to guess and what the fact that so troubled the Times might have been. Truly a puzzle!

[re=229130]jarais[/re]: You forget, they are looking for the “lightning rod” conservative columnist, not the “bat-shit crazy” conservative columnist.

All though after Kristol, I can see how one can make that mistake.

[re=229201]S.Luggo[/re]: There are plenty of able bodied people! Like Joe the all of a sudden Israeli. I epeak for ‘merica when I say fuck you. You can deny Michel Creighton (spall check off) and Trig as much as you deem necessary, but when Jesus denies you, you’re fucking 21.

And seriously, Kristol really is ‘creative’ — some of his analyses, conclusions and even facts are evidence of a very vibrant imagination. If only he would invent some sort of elven dialect for his columns, I bet they could be wonderful fantasy literature.

[re=229130]jarais[/re]: MIchelle Malkin and Maureen Dowd nude jello wrestling on the Op-Ed page? SIGN ME UP!

Ergh. Now my wee-wee is all shriveled.

I’m beginning to think that the proper definition of ‘conservative’ is ‘the pathological ability to completely reject verifiable facts and make incorrect inferences about external reality.’

Bill Kristol will be heard from again and again, above all, of course, from his current perch at The Weekly Standard, but also, I gather, from a new perch at the Washington Post (where he will have a monthly column), as well as from his seat at Fox News and in other venues.

“as well as from his seat” – See, even they admit hs talks out of his ass.

Peter, say this 3 times really fast “Polish it in The Corner.”

Oh noes! Krystal is the best contrarian indicator around! Consistently dead wrong. A great indicator.