You’re being a bit unfair to Isiah Thomas.

Thomas, at one point in his life, actually demonstrated an ability to do what he was paid to do. The same can’t be said for Kristolnacht.

Well, this makes just as much sense as the LA Times (who, in the mid-to-late 80’s and early 90’s had the world’s greatest collection of sportswriters led by the inimitable Jum Murray) hiring Doughy dickwad as a columnist.

And the Washington Post continues to employ Broder, and Murray, and a whole slew of idiots who make Pajamas Media look like a mensa festival.

As a child of 80’s Detroit, who shed his first sports-related tears watching Isiah and the Bad Boys win those back-to-back championships, I think you should leave Zeke outta this.

Kristol is a horrible person who has never accomplished anything useful…Isiah is an allegedly creepy person who is one of the greatest athletes in the history of his sport.

T-Bogg,
Aren’t you expecting too much?
You are talking about a MSM that employs Blitzer, Tweety and tough Timmah!
His employment just guarantees more readers for you and the continued demise of the NYT and other papers.
Rejoice, my friend!

I think it’s like Hollywood studio chiefs. No matter how much they fuck up, they never go away, they just play musical chairs and switch to another company.

Why he continues to get work outside of the regular wingnut welfare circuit is a major mystery.

Because the MSM has become part and parcel of the regular wingnut welfare circuit?

It’s the Weekly Standard legacy pick. They got John Tierney, who was useless. And BoBo Brooks, who is useless. And Kristol is presumably now considered sufficiently in the loop to occupy Safire’s spot, and possibly gain use of his private line to Dick Cheney.

And he ought to be doing penance, not penning columns for Time.

That Bill Kristol isn’t spat at in the streets of DC is an indictment on American politics. That he isn’t regularly tarred and feathered is an indictment on American politics. Every time he appears on television, the appropriate response is to punch him in the face. Unelected and unaccountable, he is filth. Even the worst elected GOPpers aren’t as bad as him.

And the Washington Post continues to employ Broder, and Murray, and a whole slew of idiots who make Pajamas Media look like a mensa festival.

Ain’t that the truth…!

Bill Kristol gave arrogance lessons to Don Rumsfeld. Accuracy and results based evaluation are as impossible for either of them to contemplate as citizens choosing their own representatives.

It could be worse, I mean, Time could be hiring Ramesh Ponnuru…

Oh, wait…

Bill Kristol is why I cancelled my 20+ year TIME subscription, and why I now think the NY Times is a bigger joke than I already thought it was, courtesy, mostly, Judith Miller.

Where can I go to get paid big money for being wrong all the time?

The remarkable thing about it is that I couldn’t, even with a whole lot of serious effort, be wrong as often as Kristol. I’m just not that big a blood-lover, warmonger, or freak show.

Bill Kristol is one of the great shit-stains on the huge pair of stained underwear that is Big Media pundrity.

This news is just plain sad, and embarrassing.

As for Isiah, at least he did some things that were good. His zillion point/30 second spree in a playoff game endears me to him to this day. Plus, I watched him live and in person in a IL State tournament game as a Jr., and said, this guy is so good he’ll be good in the pros.

Kristol has nothing to match that.

Bill Kristol is a Cheney-esque coward. There are few human beings on the planet that inspire in me more visceral scorn. The man is always wrong, always calling for more war, never volunteering to fight in one, and just an absolute patronage-loser of a human being.

If he were old-school Japanese, he’d kill himself for dishonoring his own fucking word.

Nice Guy Bill has pics of Pinch fucking chickens?

Who doesn’t?

Thanks for “wishing” a “New Pearl Harbor” on us, William.

That spot in the last circle of Hell awaits…

The BEAST has Bill’s number–number 26:

26. William Kristol

Charges: Bears the burlesque Cheshire grin of a sophist born with a large silver spoon jammed sideways in his mouth. A second generation neocon raised in the tradition of Straussian perception management and myth creation, Kristol is basically lying about everything — always — and he knows it. Whether at the helm of Rupert Murdoch’s Weekly Standard, appearing on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel, or co-founding the disastrous Project for a New American Century, Bill is arguably the most egregious media hawk of a generation. Seems to have suffered no ill impact to his career or prestige despite having been completely wrong about everything to do with Iraq and Iran, and actually laughs about it with obnoxious frequency.

Exhibit A: “First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea. I’m happy that the President’s willing to do something bad for the kids.”

Sentence: Corners of mouth torn apart by metal hook towing mules and face stomped by high-heeled elephants.

From The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007, which is yet another instant classic.

Bill Kristol has been a miserable failure at everything he has ever done other than getting other people killed. Why he continues to get work outside of the regular wingnut welfare circuit is a major mystery.

Kristol is the MSM-Village equivalent of the Slav with the humane killer in “No Country for Old Men”. He gets hired because there is nothing he will not do; he is a sociopath and a monster. The companies that hire him do so to indicate exactly how far they are willing to stoop to achieve their ends — or, in the case of the NYT, how little they count the few remaining shreds of their reputation against continued access to the nest of sociopaths & monsters currently running our country into the ground.

Folks seem to lose their sense of humor with this man. I heard him say, with that slit-mouth gruesome, spoiled-baby smile, that some American casualties might be a good thing so that the American people could get over the aversion to sacrificing their children they developed in Vietnam. His service as Dan Quayle’s brain was the absolute high-point in his life and contribution to society. Then he became a menace.

anybody got any idea exactly how many villages are currently missing their idiots ???

kristol, joke line, judyjudyjudy, broder

the list of idiots is endless

how many villages are there on this planet

His service as Dan Quayle’s brain …

there’s a really challenging gig, huh ???

Great picture, the best of bloody bill I’ve seen. I don’t get it though. Why isn’t this guy retired in disgrace for all the lies and advocacy presented as fact. I guess it really is the death throes of MSM.

Kristol is a facsist…………..

God I miss Jim Murray. And Jack Smith too.

Nobody will ever say that about Kristol.

“…the world of punditry is a rather imperfect marketplace.”

Well said, Mr. Corn.

Well, that’s like giving Idi Amin’s justice minister a social work job.

I don’t mind, as long as he is described thusly:

William Kristol is the the child of prominent Straussian Irving Kristol. Irving was a founding member of the empirically seditious Neo-Conservative Movement and fellow at the Bush-fellating American Enterprise Institute. WIlliam himself co-founded the Project for the New American Century, a group that laid the groundwork for the war crimes of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, atrocities for which William served as the most prominent apologist and media cheerleader. His hollow laugh and shit-eating grin have long served to distract viewers from the copious amounts of blood dripping from his hands and seeping from his very pores. He is writing this opinion column because the very rich are increasingly afraid that they have overplayed their hand, and are worried that without elaborate misdirection, the downtrodden majority might begin to realize that their children’s futures have been sold to pay for William Kristol’s diamond tie pins.

but none of that’s important. He knows people. People who matter.

It’s that kind of insider access that allows the Times to produce important journalism like the Judy Miller stories on WMDs.

They could have hired Digby or Glenn Greenwald, and faced the 21st century squarely.

Instead, Pinch helped out an old buddy: down on his luck, unemployed and missing a soap box. Who says that free markets and charity don’t work?

No, the NYT has a right, if not a duty, to present multiple viewpoints, so Digby or Greenwald for Kristol isn’t an even trade. (And that doesn’t take into account that Digby and Greenwald are far better writers, regardless of viewpoint espoused.)

If they’d hired John Cole, they’d have gotten far fewer complaints.

Oh but they already have Tom Friedman “Unit” as the “Liberal” voice.