For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
Let's see if we have this straight: William Kristol, who has had his fingers
in numerous Republican disasters in the last eight years yet pretended to
have journalistic objectivity, is telling John McCain to "fire his campaign."
One of the disasters (though not the deadliest -- that would be the Iraq
War) was pushing
for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be McCain's running mate.
While Palin isn't the only reason why the campaign has stumbled, Palin does
play a large part.
But Kristol, whose myopic vision continues to bewilder all life itself,
takes no responsibility for his tragic role, and throws out the "Fire
the campaign" cry. That will solve everything!!
What makes Kristol's advice even more funny/tragic is that virtually everything
he touches turns to black dust. It would be like still listening to your
financial advisor after he told you in July to buy lots of AIG stock.
In the
column, his other major piece of advice (other than the irrational
firing of the campaign) is to go more negative on Obama, specifically with
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. To quote many a Southern politician, that dog won't
hunt.
Kristol acts as if John Hagee wouldn't get mentioned in return or the witch
doctor who laid hands on Gov. Palin.
So how did Bill Kristol find Sarah Palin. Kristol, Fred Barnes, and others
were on a cruise
for the Weekly Standard that had a stopover in Juneau in
2007.
And
he was
one
of
the major
forces
behind the scenes to get her named to the ticket.
And Kristol still
thinks highly of Palin, long after other conservatives
have literally abandoned ship. Even Kathleen Parker, no fan of what we do,
called
for Gov. Palin to resign from the ticket.
His call to "fire the campaign" didn't go over well with the McCain
campaign to no one's surprise. But the reaction
from McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer, who used to work for Kristol, was priceless:
"You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into the Obama campaign’s
party line."
To be fair to Pfotenhauer, Kristol isn't in the tank for anyone
but himself. As AmericaBlog
put it well:
"Kristol has his own agenda. After November 4th, he'll be on FOX
telling all the diehards how he could have saved the McCain campaign if
they'd only
listen. Then, Kristol can continue to be one of the wise men in a party
that has been destroyed in the elections, because of the ideas of people
like
Bill Kristol."
It's all part of the vicious William Kristol cycle: have a bad idea,
tell someone in power, write about bad idea in one of the many outlets he
has,
see bad idea implemented, say bad idea is still good, then have another bad
idea.
And why does Kristol keep going on in the corporate media? Because he is
one of them, protected from the notion that he ever has any culpability or
ramifications based on things he has said or written. It doesn't hurt that
Kristol is a legacy to the corporate media, given Irving Kristol's prominence
long ago.
Kristol couldn't get criticized any more than any other corporate media
member since their house of cards would get blown away with even a ruffle
of a feather.
For pushing a clearly inexperienced vice presidential candidate, and then
criticizing the collapse of a campaign in which you used a sledgehammer to
knock out a few bricks, and for your continued efforts to be as wrong as
one person can be and still get rich doing so, we gladly award you the BuzzFlash
Media PUTZ of the Week.
William Kristol previously won the Media PUTZ of the week on July 19, 2007.
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