Kristol Rips YearlyKos, Run By A ‘Left-Wing Blogger’ Who Was ‘Not Respectable 3-4 Years Ago’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/22/kristol-yearlykos/

Kristol Rips YearlyKos, Run By A ‘Left-Wing Blogger’ Who Was ‘Not Respectable 3-4 Years Ago’

Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol attacked the Democratic presidential candidates for their decision to attend the YearlyKos blogger convention. He held it up as evidence that the presidential candidates have “gone left.”

“Every Democratic presidential nominee is going to the DailyKos convention,” said Kristol. “That’s the left-wing blogger who was not respectable three or four years ago. The Howard Dean kind of sponsor. Now the whole party is going to pay court to him and to left wing blogs.”

Watch it/read transcript at link~

The YearlyKos convention is independent of the blog DailyKos. So the candidates are not going to simply “pay court” to the head of DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Approximately 1,500 “people from all walks of life who belong to the Netroots community” are expected at the convention this year.

Moreover, as NPR’s Juan Williams points out, what Kristol describes “as left is now center.” “The majority of the American people, 70 percent, want us out of Iraq,” noted Williams. “In fact, if you asked Iraqis, 60 some percent of Iraqis say we’re doing more harm than good in Iraq.” In a survey conducted by Pew Internet and American Life after the 2006 mid-term election, “online political activists” were said to “mirror the general population of those who are civically active.” Like the progressive blogosphere, a solid majority of Americans believe President Bush should not have commuted the sentence of his former aide, Scooter Libby.

The attendees of the YearlyKos convention haven’t “gone left.” Kristol just doesn’t understand how radically right wing he is.

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[AX10]

1. KKKristol pays homage to religous fundamentalists.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Kristol, like Bush, is facing his worst fear...irrelevance. And, the result is not pretty.

MKJ

[baldguy]

3. Ah, but Markos has gained - or rather EARNED respectability

Kristol has whored away any respectability he may have had a long time ago.

[1932]

4. I've heard Kristol say on NPR that he told lies in support of Enron becuase they paid him

and that he'd do it again because he has kids in college.

That's respectable?

For anyone who cares, he said that on the Diane Rehm show sometime around 2002-03

[kenny blankenship]

5. "the Howard Dean kind of sponsor." Oh GOD not that! Anything but that!

Now we know what is in Bill Kristol's Room 101.

[Beelzebud]

6. Kristol was NEVER respectable, so he can go piss up a rope.

[MessiahRp]

7. Yeah, damn those bloggers. I'm the respectable one, after all, I worked for Dan Quayle!

What a dumbass.

The guy is wrong on everything. He's possibly the only person competing with Bush and Cheney in the 'biggest idiot on planet earth' contest they seem to be having. I think he jealous that Kos has been right so often and because of which is more respected than Kristol the Toadie ever will be.

Rp

[melody]

8. NOT RESPECTABLE???

Why does this strike me as being the equivalent of "white trash with money"?

[Rosemary2205]

9. "I'm rubber and you're glue"

Kristol is jealous over his own loss of credibility and is acting like a toddler.

[saltpoint]

10. Let's have Bill Kristol speak at a town meeting in a city where several

women and men were deployed to Iraq and have not come home alive.

Let's see how Kristol responds to the raw emotional fury of people who know they've been lied to from the outset.

Just about anybody can tap-dance through the Sunday morning news programs. Let's test Kristol's resolve against the people whose friends and family have been destroyed by his immoral, obstinate propaganda.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Kristol doesn't know life outside the Beltway

He's part of the 'Beltway Bubble', the keepers of the "common wisdom".

They're actually amusing to watch, but veracity and respectability left THAT station a LONG time ago.

[saltpoint]

20. Agree. He's snugly tucked away on the Sunday morning news shows.

[dalaigh lllama]

11. What makes Markos "not respectable"?

What an idiot. And Kristol is respected by who again?

[Catchawave]

12. ....then they fight you....

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

[libertypirate]

13. Sounds like a little fear in his bullshit... /nt

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Jack Rabbit Rips Weekly Standard, Run By A ‘Right-Wing Fool’ Who Was ‘Never Respectable’

!!

[Richard Steele]

16. Kristol is maintaining his decades-long streak of being completely WRONG. He's seriously consistent.

[Rex]

17. Bill is jealous, see he has NEVER been 'respectable' as a journalist

Poor Bill, green with envy.

[dkofos]

18. PNAC Neocon asshole

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. I heard not long ago that Markos was a DLC insider

and had the help of the DLC to get his website up and running. Don't know if that is true but it sure makes this attack seem kinda silly.

[Catchawave]

21. Kos was a Dean consultant

...nothing DLC about that :)

[leftchick]

22. that is the insanity of it all!

Kos kicks Cindy off and Kristol calls them "far left"?? If that is the case we are really in trouble. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. KOS is as far left as I am right

I hardly ever read that blog anymore. Way too many DLCers there.

[Major Hogwash]

24. Bill Kristol, the PNAC member? You mean the one that was promoting a war with Iraq back in 1998?

Bill Kristol has shot any credibility he may have ever had - and whether he ever had any is debatable - totally down the drain forever by claiming we must stay in Iraq until we win.

Yet, he won't define what "winning" means, and he won't say how long it would take.

Warmonger, chickenhawk, bullshit artist.

Do a search on "PNAC" and learn who the true enemies of peace to this country really are - they come from within our own country.

[jpgray]

25. Forgive me if I don't give credence to the strategic acumen of Bill Kristol.

[Bolo Boffin]

26. First there was Baghdad Bob, and now? Baghdad Bill.

Time to crank up the Photoshop.

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[Raksha]

27. Since when does Bill Kristol get to decide

who is or is not "respectable" on the left? Or more accurately, in the new center? His statement is one more testament to right-wing cluelessness.