Comments on: Kristol Expands His Audience Thanks to New York Times

By: Faisal

Faisal — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:44:16 +0000

Sorry to point out the elephant in the room, but all it seems that we are supposed to believe that being of jewish descent will apparently have no effect on these writers’ judgement and they will write bias-free foriegn policy columns. I dont know whether to call it naive or just plain stupid.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:42:36 +0000

Kristol supported the war to bring down OPEC. Doing this by throwing his weight behind a bunch of oilmen shows you what a tool the man truly is.

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:54:03 +0000

In the spirit of truth in the lineage of Walter Duranty, this is not a surprise.

By: DE Tedoru

DE Tedoru — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:24:41 +0000

No, minemule42, they are NOT devoted to Israel. They are using influence peddling in US foreign policy to make $$$ and get Israelis to recognize them as “mensh” for having pushed America into “World War IV.”

http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Dogma-Neoconservatives-Deceive-America/dp/0976443740/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199758855&sr=1-4

By: minemule42

minemule42 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:23:35 +0000

The important thing to remember is that every one of these individuals are devoted to Israel. They might disagree on a few minor details, but when it comes to what is best for Israel, they will be in agreement.

By: lester

lester — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:59:57 +0000

the mainstream media I think realized after iraq went down hill that they could find a bunch of new columnists who actually knew what they were talking about and risk going over their dumbed down oprah fied readerships heads, or simply tra la la along. how do they sleep at night?

By: Vieux Charles

Vieux Charles — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:40:29 +0000

Kristol’s new job is proof that whinging will still get you what you want. In his case a new soapbox and an indulgent wetnurse.

By: palestinian

palestinian — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:11:11 +0000

they are jews,,, that is all,, nobody wants to identify them as jews because everybody it seems is against racial profiling,,, yet political judaism or national judaism or zionism is an ideology and a political choice,,, once one notices that these people belong to he same political camp, everything becomes clear,,, CLARITY is the same as understanding,,, and although people when analyzing and studying they declare that they do that inorder to understand, yet it seems when it comes to the jewish nationalist ideology, everybody prefers to misunderstand

By: Ed.

Ed. — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:29:09 +0000

“All these lengthy, circuitous arguuments against NY Times, Kristol, Friedman, Brooks, Cal Thomas etc. are mere circumlocutions…It is Israel, Stupid!”

Amen. Which makes one wonder…why do so many even non-Zionist Jewish writers go to such lengths to obscure that truth? It’s almost as if their heritage puts them through some kind of ‘Manchurian Candidate’ type indoctrination that kicks in whenever a Jewish entity comes under criticism. They really need work on their knee jerk defensiveness. They are doing humanity and their own people no favor by enabling Jewish Zionist maniacs. In fact, quite the opposite.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:17:42 +0000

Superficially, the Times’ hiring of an ‘opponent’ may be surprising. However, that really misses the nature of the “Pundit Journalist Complex”.

The PJC member are quite similar to the teams of analysts you see before football games, though the football analysts might be a little more intellectually deep.

Why are PJC members either openly hostile or dismissive of someone like Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich? Not because of their “fringe” ideas, but because they take ideas seriously.

The PJC wishes to keep discussions on the level of “who’s today’s Hitler” or “do midwestern Moms like Hillary’s new hair”. They do not want principled, intellectual discussions. It would be like having Shannon Sharpe discussing Cicero before the Pats game…it would just make everyone uncomfortable and be totally out of place.

Another similarity between PJC and football commentators is the lack of necessity for accuracy. Typically, these commentators go 9-7 or so on any given week of games. Not much better than a coin flip, yet people take their predictions seriously. Nobody calls for Jimmy Johnson’s head because he wrongly predicted the spread on the Bears game.

Similary, there is no accountability for PJC members. Predictions of cakewalks, flowers, and candy aren’t held against these people. Why should we listen to them on Iran when they blew it badly on Iraq? No reason is ever really given, but they occupy these positions as talking heads (or writing heads as the case may be), so that’s just the way it is. Don’t rock the boat, don’t think too hard, sit back, have a beer and chips, and watch the show.