Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 2:07 PM Pacific
While bloggers were obsessing over Obama on Fox...
Who wants Kristol's
respect anyway?
...the New York Times' right-wing propagandist William Kristol completed his embrace of Hillary Clinton. In an unintentionally hilarious column (The Onion could not have come up with a better spoof), Kristol complains that "Hillary gets no respect":
But we also see the liberal media failing to give Hillary Clinton the respect she deserves. So, since we conservatives believe in giving credit where credit is due, it falls to us to praise Hillary.
Okay. So Kristol says that Hillary Clinton gets no respect. Perhaps this is what he's talking about?
Time to Move On...From Hillary And From The Clintons' Brand of Politics
By William Kristol, December 24, 2007It will be good for the country to be able to move on, sooner rather than later, from the Clintons and their brand of politics. If the Democratic primary electorate brings this about, THE WEEKLY STANDARD will be first to say something we are not accustomed to saying to the Democratic party--thank you.
Or perhaps this is what he was talking about?
You Go, Geffen!
By William Kristol, March 5, 2007We know from the philosophers that a true statement is true without regard to the reliability or sagacity of the person who utters it. We have it on good authority that the truth shall set us free. David Geffen spoke truth to Maureen Dowd last week. And he may have triggered a series of events that will set the Democratic party free from its Clinton captivity.
Here is what the Hollywood mogul told the New York Times gossip columnist:
I don't think that another incredibly polarizing figure, no matter how smart she is and no matter how ambitious she is--and God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?--can bring the country together. Obama is inspirational, and he's not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. . . .
I don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person. . . . I think [Republicans] believe she's the easiest to defeat. . . .
It's not a very big thing to say, "I made a mistake" on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't. She's so advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base . . . that machine is going to be very unpleasant and unattractive. . . .
Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice? Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling....Hillary Clinton's popularity soared after the Monica affair, when she achieved a kind of political separation from her husband. That's what made her Senate race possible, and her current presidential candidacy plausible. Relinking her to Bill makes her political life more complicated.
So as if you needed any more evidence that the 2008 campaign is the most bizarre political freakshow in a generation, William Kristol has now come full circle and is a Clinton acolyte. Who would have ever imagined that Hillary Clinton's campaign would win over right-wingers such as Kristol, Richard Mellon Scaife, Pat Buchanan, Karl Rove, and Rush Limbaugh?
Yet despite all this, some people on the left are more outraged by Obama's appearance on Fox News Sunday than by what's going on with Hillary Clinton's campaign. And that bizarre double standard is the highest comedy of all.