BAD PUNDITS….Foreign Policy rounds up the top ten worst predictions of 2008 today. Bill Kristol tops the list, and while I can’t argue with that in a cosmic, karmic kind of sense, I have to confess that predicting Hillary Clinton would beat Barack Obama hardly qualifies as uniquely idiotic. Surely he’s said something dumber than that recently?
Personally, I would have given the #1 spot to Don Luskin, who claimed, on the day before Bear Stearns collapsed, that it was ridiculous to say we were in a recession. That’s an epic fail.
However, if I were Walter Wagner I’d sue for crystal ball malpractice. He’s the guy who predicted that the Large Hadron Collider would destroy the earth, and FP says, “The LHC was turned on in September, and it appears that we are still here.” But the truth is that the LHC never reached its full operational capacity before a malfunction shut it down. It might yet suck the planet into a black hole, and won’t the FP editors have egg on their faces if that happens.
