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What's The Problem With Conservative Columnists?
"Many of them lie in print," says New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal, speaking to the Guardian about U2 frontman Bono joining the Times' op-ed page.
Hey, Andrew? Isn't it your job to make sure the columnists you publish don't "lie in print"? Or do you just believe that the facts have a liberal bias and allowing conservative columnists to lie is your misguided attempt at "balance"?
In not-unrelated news, Bill Kristol will be on the Daily Show Thursday night.
(h/t Brian Beutler)
Benjamin Disraeli said it best:
Conservatism is organized hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is a form of lying.
The best place for a Conservative Columnist with our current economy is under a very strong table as Treasury Paulson has foretold with uncanny accuracy the dramatic fall of the American economy as a result of the total incompetence of a President who refuses to listen to anyone and allowed the Auto, Trucking, and Airline Industry to go belly up with scarcely a OOps!Now I don't know about anyone else but ovber 3 million well paid auto workers out of work does have an effect on our Economy-Don't tell George-He's Free Market which means don't ask and don't tell Big Oil to cool it or we'll all be in real trouble-might even have to pay for our own war!
Nick, you should know that your buddy Kristrol is a Trotskyite, just like his father.The influence of Marxism is particularly evident in neoconservative conceptions of patriotism. In The Weekly Standard of last August 25, Kristol published an essay titled "The Neoconservative Persuasion" (evidently someone had neglected to inform Kristol, "the godfather of neoconservatism," about the new party line that neoconservatism does not exist). Among what Kristol calls "the following 'theses' (as a Marxist would say)" is his claim that "large nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of today, inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns. Barring extraordinary events, the United States will always feel obliged to defend, if possible, a democratic nation under attack from nondemocratic forces, external or internal." Therefore the United States should "defend Israel today...no complicated geopolitical calculations of national interest are necessary" (an odd sentiment from the former publisher of a magazine called The National Interest, of which I was executive editor from 1991 to 1994). Let us set the question of Israel aside for now, and note that very few Americans think of their country as a version of the USSR with liberal democracy instead of Marxism-Leninism as the official ideology--probably as few as think of American foreign policy in terms of "'theses' (as a Marxist would say)."
The true conservatives are working for Obama to defeat McCain and his neocon masters. Then we can rebuild the GOP as a conservative party(e.g. Barry Goldwater).