William Kristol For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
William Kristol is living proof of how the American media has turned the concept of meritocracy upside its head and now puts chronic failures at the top of the pundit pyramid.
Kristol is the scion of leftists turned Neo-Cons. He has the East Coast pedigree that used to be a prerequisite for entrance into the neo-liberal ruling class. But somewhere, something went horribly wrong.
As the paid shill of Rupert Murdoch, who underwrites the Weekly Standard that Kristol "edits," Kristol has emerged as the favorite Neo-Con "expert spokesman" on the mainstream media. This is despite the reality that Kristol has a record of being a smiling booster of just about every failed "Masters of the Universe" foreign policy pursued by Bush and Cheney.
Lately, Kristol has been advocating the nuking of Iran when not doing the Sunday morning "news show" circuit, boasting about what a great job Bush is doing in Iraq. He's the kind of insider that the D.C. media establishment thinks of as a "nice guy" and "one of them."
Before we get around to the reason for Kristol receiving this week's coveted Media Putz honors, we wanted to share this excerpt from Wikipedia:
"Kristol graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School, a preparatory school for boys located in Manhattan. In 1973, he received a B.A. from Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in three years. Later, in 1979, he received a Ph.D. in government, also from Harvard. During his first year of graduate school, Kristol was fellow conservative and also government doctoral candidate Alan Keyes' roommate. In the 1984 general election, Kristol inadvertently voted for the Communist candidate against Speaker of House Tip O'Neill, a Massachusetts Democrat, assuming that O'Neill's sole opponent was a Republican. In fact, the Republican Party failed to field a candidate against O'Neill in 1984.
"Many years later, in 1988, Kristol would run Keyes' unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland. After teaching political philosophy and American politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Kristol went to work in government in 1985, serving as chief of staff to Secretary of Education William Bennett during the Reagan Administration, and then as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle under the first President Bush. Kristol was dubbed 'Dan Quayle's brain' by The New Republic upon being appointed the Vice President's chief of staff."
Hey, a man who was considered "Dan Quayle's brain" is certainly worthy of great attention by the mainstream media! After all, that's some accomplishment, being Dan Quayle's brain and all.
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http://mediaputz.com/07/07/putz0719.html
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