Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Kristol has no sense of irony
You would think after spending 8 years shilling for the Bush White House, New York Times columnist William Kristol would at least learned a little irony. There isn’t anything wrong with shilling (what’s that tune by Bob Dylan about having to serve?), but Kristol is so into the sale that it makes him utterly tone deaf.
This Sunday Kristol was doing his usual ruminating in the New York Times and he was describing the reaction some have had to Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at next month’s inauguration.
“I suspect he’ll be careful to say nothing pro-life or pro-traditional-marriage — but we conservatives have already gotten more than enough pleasure from the hysterical reaction to his selection by the tribunes of the intolerant left.”
Hold on to your wallets boys and girls because there is a thief in town. The term “intolerant left” is a favorite by our brothers and sisters on the right. They will argue, with verve and nerve, that it’s the left that has a problem with diversity and is really hateful; however, the right is filled with folk who adore disagreements and debate.
Before Kristol goes on about the “intolerant left”, he best look at his own house. Here are a few names that come to mind and the coffee hasn’t even kicked in: Rev. Jerry Falwell, Senator Jessie Helms, columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, writer Anne Coulter.
Intolerance, alas, is an equal opportunity offender (and yeah I’m calling many of my liberal brethren and sistern as close minded as anyone on the right), but to admit that requires Kristol to be critical of his own side. Can’t do that when all you care about is the hustle.
PS; RIP Freddie Hubbard.
I suppose that nitwit revisionist William Kristol would have labeled Jews in Germany critical of Hitler’s rise to power as “the intolerant left.”
Bill Kristol is a tool. He’s an elitist who argues a populist line when it’s good for keeping the proles in check. Whatever native intelligence he has is compromised by a fundamental disrespect he and his ilk have for The Other. Who on the Left is like that? I’m not talking about some self-righteous second-year grad student who has family money to fall back on when they finish protesting in some godforsaken Flyover town; outside of academia, who gets a pass as good as Limbaugh’s gotten? When have any of the Kristols or the Buckleys or the Scaifes or Lindners–ANY of the Wingnut Brigade–really had to live life without the privilege they so carefully maintain for themselves? I wanna see Ann Coulter go undercover for a year–no mannies and pedis, no touch-ups on that hair color, no primping–I wanna see her assigned two kids and see her make it on her own, based on the assumption that she has a BA that she never used ’cause she was married, but now she might get to be assistant manager at the Hardee’s out on the Bypass. Let’s see her keep her head on when it’s a choice between pontificating on the glorious American Capitalist System, or choose between thyroid medication so she can stay employed, insurance co-pay so her kids are covered, or car insurance. Show me a “leftist” who wouldn’t be honest about either having done it, or at least admitting it was beyond their full imagining because they’d always had it better.
For that matter, show me five widely-known American authors/commentators who would qualify as true leftists in Canada or the EU. I’m Missouri–show me.
The important thing missing in human interfaces is not documentation of other’s faults. It seems obvious that life on any planet cannot enjoy itself, much. Why?