WILLIAM KRISTOL AND MAXIMUM WRONG

[Zlatko Waterman]

A delightful article by Paul Campos, whose mordant and meticulous writing I always enjoy:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0116-31.htm



--Z

[stilltrucking]

Delightful?

Then why does it depress me?

I suppose you could admire it for being so well done.

I wonder how he keeps showing up on all the network Sunday morning news shows. His little smirk of superiority when some one opposes his mindless statements. Obviously they are too dim to see the brilliance of his insight. Me too. Our technology has become so much more elegant since 1984. We no longer need an opening in the wall for the memory hole. They suck yesterday’s lies right out of our heads.

Far from it! Kristol has just been hired by Time, America's leading news weekly, to write a column. This is the journalistic equivalent of handing the former captain of the Exxon Valdez a case of whiskey and the command of a fully loaded supertanker.

The nation's elite media continue to be in denial about the fact that most of America's most prominent pundits were wrong about Iraq. (Admittedly not all of them were as wrong as Kristol. The average pundit couldn't manage to be as wrong as Kristol if he tried.)

One symptom of this denial is the bizarrely upward trajectory of Kristol's career path. Another is how the fact that a number of commentators who were every bit as right about Iraq as Kristol has been wrong (modesty forbids me from noting I was among them) has gone down the memory hole.

Is it any more bizzare then BUsh giving medals to Paul Bremmer and George Tenet for their brilliant work?

Glad I read it Z, thanks for posting. Just quibbling over words,

[Zlatko Waterman]

Yes ST-- I meant "delightful" to apply to the accuracy and excellence of Paul Campos's reporting, not to the execrable Bill Kristol.

( smile)


--Z