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External LinksProject for a New American Century website (Kristol is Chairman [2005]) Project for a New American Century's 1998 letter to Bill Clinton urging invasion of Iraq Project for a New American Century's 2001 letter to George W. Bush urging invasion of Iraq MORE LINKSMediaMatters.org After GOP source of Schiavo memo was confirmed, Hume, Kristol failed to acknowledge their roles in suggesting Democrats had authored itAfter Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) admitted that one of his aides was the author of a "talking points" memo that described the Terri Schiavo case as a "great political issue" for Republicans, neither Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume nor Weekly Standard editor William Kristol acknowledged their own role, or the role of their organizations, in advancing false speculation that Democrats created the memo.
Howard Kurtz Bill Kristol, Keeping Iraq in the Cross HairsMoments after the Persian Gulf War was halted, Bill Kristol got a call from columnist Charles Krauthammer, and both were fuming over what they saw as unfinished business..."I was one of those who thought we should have finished off Saddam at the end of the war," Kristol recalls. "We both agreed this was a big mistake."
Tom Hayden He's William Kristol, Not Billy Crystal, and His War's Not Fun AnymoreAs a snobbish Harvard conservative in 1972, young William Kristol praised Richard Nixon's Christmas B-52 bombing raids over Hanoi as "one of the great moments in American history". He never had second thoughts...
Daily Howler MAKE A SAD SONG BETTER!In Minnesota, Rick Kahn went over the top. In Washington, the lies quickly started: ...KRISTOL: When Rick -- when Rick Kahn said, “We can redeem the sacrifice of Paul Wellstone’s life if you help win this election with Walter Mondale,” that’s a little crazy. I mean, you can’t redeem the sacrifice of Paul Wellstone’s life by electing Walter Mondale. So there’s a kind of, there’s a kind of politicization of things like death, which is a little weird...[EDITOR'S NOTE: WHICH IS A TOTAL LIE - MONDALE'S NAME WAS NEVER MENTIONED]
Eric Alterman Like Father, Like SonIt cannot possibly be a coincidence that William Kristol has chosen to defend President Bush and his slacker war against terrorism by impugning Richard Gephardt with the same phraseology that his father used half a century ago to defend Joe McCarthy.
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PERSON PROFILEWilliam KristolWilliam "Bill" Kristol, son of Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, is nearly as important to the right wing movement as his father. In the words of Washington Post "critic" Howard Kurtz, "He's become part of Washington's circulatory system, this half-pol, half-pundit, full-throated advocate with the nice-guy image," who is "...wired to nearly all the Republican presidential candidates." (Feb 2000.) Kristol was raised in Manhattan, educated at Harvard,where he roomed with current GOP presidential candidate Alan Keys -- another subsidized right wing figure. Kristol spent his very early years working for Democrats, including Hubert Humphrey and Scoop Jackson, but by 1976 he had become a Republican. He briefly taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In 1985 he was hired by Bill Bennett to serve in the federal Department of Education, where he quickly rose to chief of staff. With the election of George Bush in 1988, Kristol was given the unenviable job of handling Vice President Dan Quayle (for which the New Republic dubbed him "Dan Quayle's Brain.") After Bush was defeated in 1992, Kristol was hired to commentate on ABC TV by Dorrance Smith, the former Bush Communications Director who had moved to the network. After the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, Kristol asked right wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch to underwrite his new conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, which, after four years in operation is still losing money, and has barely increased its circulation from its original 60,000. Recently Kristol lost his job on the ABC Sunday morning show This Week, which has left him free to pursue appearances on other networks, as well as his very lucrative speaking career, which by some reports nets him $100,000 to $200,000 per year. He served as chairman of the Project for the Republican Future from 1993 to 1994 and as the director of the Bradley Project on the '90s at the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee in 1993. (from Board of Visitors page at George Mason University).
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MORE LINKSEric Alterman Kristolizing the (Neoconservative) MomentJoin me, dear reader, in yet another inquiry into the role in American political life of William Kristol Bill Kristol is an extremely smart fellow with good manners and a likable demeanor. Because he is so smart, it's all but impossible to believe that he believes many of the things he says and writes. But if one looks for a consistent pattern to Kristol's perpetual wrongness, it's not hard to discern. For Kristol is less interested in being correct than in advancing his side's interests. He's not a journalist; he's an apparatchik working undercover as a man of the press.
Think Progress Harvey Mansfield declares Bill Kristol "Manly man"Harvard professor and conservative author Harvey Mansfield recently published a book called “Manliness.”
Attaturk The wit, the wisdom, the profound inability to learn that is, B-I-L-L (Kristol)Why ever learn, if you never get shamed into admitting you have been wrong?
Steve Clemons George Will Excoriates The Weekly Standard in Rebuke of Bill Kristol, Condi Rice, and the Bush Administration's Middle East CatastropheGeorge Will gets the "Conservatives with a Conscience Award" today from The Washington Note.
MediaMatters.org Kristol erroneously cited polls; falsely claimed that, since Jan., "no new information" Bush misled U.S. into IraqIn his November 21 article in The Weekly Standard, editor William Kristol claimed that because of an "unanswered assault by Bush's enemies" since the president's second inauguration in January, there has been an increase of 20 percentage points in those who believe that President Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq." But this argument rested on two false assertions.
ThinkProgress.org Yes, Mr. Kristol, That’s A CrimeBill Kristol has run out of spin for Bush administration officials involved in the leak scandal. Today on Fox News Sunday:
Harold Meyerson Their War, TooAre mere pundits responsible when an administration’s policy goes wrong? When their sophistic arguments helped sell and sustain it, very. ...For its war in Iraq, the Bush administration relied on and benefited from the cheerleading of a group of pundits and public intellectuals who, at every crucial moment, subordinated the facts on the ground to their own ideological preferences and those of their allies within the administration..
MediaMatters.org Kristol claimed "the country's evenly divided" on Bush foreign policy, but polls indicate otherwiseOn the May 29 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol baselessly asserted that the American public is "evenly divided" on President Bush's foreign policy... In fact, three recent polls indicate that most Americans disapprove of Bush's foreign policy.
MediaMatters.org Kristol falsely claimed Democrats oppose all of Bush's conservative judicial nomineesAppearing on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol falsely claimed that "Democrats do not want to permit President Bush to put conservatives on the bench." In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, the Senate has to date approved 205 judicial nominees, with Senate Democrats filibustering 10.
Michael Tomasky Breaking KristolThe propaganda and lies of The Weekly Standard's editor ...a short and superficially amiable piece by...William Kristol in The Weekly Standard describe[s] a coming right-wing line of attack against liberals...It is a house -- no, a skyscraper -- of propaganda and lies.
Jim Lobe Guiding PrinciplesIs U.S. foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral and hostile to democratic government? ... Washington is abuzz about Leo Strauss...Two...very influential Straussians include...William Kristol and Gary Schmitt, founder/chairman and director, respectively, of the Project for the New American Century...
Katrina vanden Heuvel Kommissar KristolWilliam Kristol's April 7 editorial in The Weekly Standard denouncing critics of the war on Iraq as "anti-American" is startlingly reminiscent of the menacing directives issued for decades by the Soviet Communist Party's Department of Ideology.
AndrewSullivan.com KRISTOL GOT $100,000 FROM ENRONBill Kristol emails to clarify that he was on the Enron advisory board for two years “I believe,” for what would be a total of $100,000. That makes Kristol the biggest Enron pundit beneficiary so far. And the sum wasn’t disclosed until today, so far as I know. The web spreads. Who else was on the board? Did any pundits get more than Kristol? Stay tuned ...
MediaMatters.org Kristol, Krauthammer lauded Bush inauguration speech without disclosing their role as consultantsWeekly Standard editor William Kristol lauded President George W. Bush's inauguration speech as "powerful," "impressive," and "historic," both in an article for the January 31 print edition of The Weekly Standard and as a FOX News political contributor during FOX's live coverage of Inauguration Day. Washington Post columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer...also... called Bush's speech "revolutionary" and compared it to fomer President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address. But Kristol and Krauthammer were consultants for Bush's speech -- a fact that neither disclosed.
MediaMatters.org Kristol: Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal "small"Kristol says on Faux News Sunday: the United States is "obsessing...about a small prisoner abuse scandal."
Howard Kurtz Pundits Sponsored by Conservative Philanthopies Also On Enron PayrollBill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, was paid $100,000 for serving on an Enron advisory board over two years. In November, the Standard disclosed his service in a largely positive article about Enron by contributing editor Irwin Stelzer, who served on the same advisory board, which was assembled by former CEO Kenneth Lay.
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Washington Post bio of Kristol written by Howard Kurtz
