TIME MAGAZINE-DUMPS War Mongers - Kristol & Krauthammer

[kpete]

Kristol, Krauthammer Are Out of Time
by John Koblin | December 18, 2007 | Tags: MediaBill KristolCharles Krauthammer
This article was published in the December 24, 2007, edition of The New York Observer.

After a Dramatic Departure, Post Names New City EditorTwo conservative Time magazine columnists are on their way out the door: Neither William Kristol nor longtime contributor Charles Krauthammer will be on contract with the magazine starting next month. Mr. Krauthammer confirmed the news to Off the Record, and a spokeswoman for Time said Mr. Kristol’s contract would not be renewed.

And according to two sources familiar with the discussions, Time is in negotiations with National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru to sign him to a contributor contract. Mr. Ponnuru, who in 2006 published The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, has written twice for the magazine over the past month.

The exact reasons for the departures of Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Kristol, both high-profile backers of the Iraq war, are not entirely clear.

http://www.observer.com/2007/kristol-krauthammer-are-out-time

[BadgerLaw2010]

1. Probably Iran NIE feud. n/t

[rox63]

2. They'll just replace them with a couple of other right-wing shills

Same old BS, but from fresh new faces.

[Echo In Light]

24. Yep. Put a "friendlier" face on fascism

"We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand" ~ Neil Young

[gratuitous]

3. Oh, no way!

Were they finally wrong enough? Did their fatuous arguments in favor of more death and destruction reach the threshold of Time's revulsion? Have enough people died, has enough money been wasted, to at last expose them as the charlatans they are to Time's editors?

Or maybe they just priced themselves out of the market, and Ponnuru will be a death apologist for less?

[mwb970]

17. Kristol and Krauthammer are two of the very worst RW shills.

Throw in the doughy pantload and you hit the trifecta!

[bemildred]

4. Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for National Review magazine. He has also written for several other newspapers and publications, including The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The New Republic and First Things.

Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. He attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School in affluent Johnson County, Kansas. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15, he went to Princeton University, where he earned an B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude. He is of Asian Indian descent and has converted to Roman Catholicism.<1>. He is married to April Ponnuru.<2>

A conservative pundit, Ponnuru has appeared in many public affairs and news interview programs. He is perhaps best known for his 2006 book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, published by Regnery Publishing. In response to questions about and criticism of the provocative title, Ponnuru has explained in interviews that the term is intended to define a political movement that has taken over control of the Democratic Party through abortion and other death-related issues.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Ponnuru

[Solly Mack]

5. Thrill. Thrill.

Sheesh

[Algorem]

6. High-talking lowlife.

[patrice]

7. A Catholic? = Time positioning itself for the Neo Pro-Life base?

That's actually the Old Original Pro-Life - Anti-War "movement" that Cardinal Bernardin defined. There's a whole bunch of Catholics out there who are suddenly getting their collective memory back about what Pro-Life ACTUALLY is.

Oh, and BTW, in order to be forgiven the Murder that they visited upon about a million innocent Iraqis, they are required to expiate what they did, ammend their ways in their behaviors = become more anti-War active. This is one of the reasons mainstream "Christianity" is turning on Catholicism.

[ellenfl]

13. huh?

"through abortion and other death-related issues."

what other 'death-related' issues might those be? the death penalty, maybe? war? oh, silly me, of course he means euthanasia! this guy has as many loose screws as the other two!

those christian conservatives are sure christ-like. NOT!

ellen fl

[sakabatou]

16. For you know, once you abolish abortion

there won't be any! :D

:sarcasm:

[City Lights]

21. For those that are better with faces than names, here's a pic for the bio:

[formercia]

8. Pilate washes his hands

Who,me?

[UTUSN]

9. K&R for the dumping part. The replacements will be as bad.

Billy "William" KRISTOL, Dan QUAYLE's supposed brain---talk about effete and elite. The way he SNIFFS at Juan WILLIAMS and any other underling who dares to squeak out a view opposed to him.

And KRAUTHAMMER just exudes malevolance.

[blogslut]

10. So, they go from bad to absolutely terrible?

Ramesh Ponnuru?

Cue the Joan Baez:

Time, Time mag mag
You've got me on the rag rag
Take your insults about the Queen
And shove them up
Your royal Timese machine

[EV_Ares]

11. Yeah, saw that, excellent move on their part, much better than Newsweek giving Rove

a column.

K&R.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Make me wonder if they are on Larry Flynts "list"

I sure hope so.

Don

[progressoid]

14. Time magazine? Is that thing still being printed?

[DCKit]

15. Despite the current political shift to BLUE....

Time Magazine chooses to loudly dismiss two warmongering, chickenhawk neocons and replace them with a pro-life jerk-off?

When MSA (main stream America) turns off the MSM (and it's happening) who the hell are they going to cry to?

Someone mentioned on another thread that the MSM has become fully invested in their role as partner in the neocon/corporate machine and now, I believe it. I don't understand it, but I believe it.

Even rats are smart enough to jump from a sinking ship, buy hey, these aren't rats. Flies? Mosquitoes? Locusts? Yeah, locusts: Ravenous, destructive, swarming and oblivious.

[Jacobin]

18. "Our Work Here is Done"

Kristol & Krauthammer

[groovedaddy]

22. Well, the damage has certainly been done

And the nerve of those Iraqis, to blame US for all their problems! It was just an invasion and occupation, for God's sake! What's their problem?

[deacon]

19. "...and hire mike savage and rush limbaugh" n/t

[Ikonoklast]

20. And the sixteen people left that still read Time

collectively nod their heads and drool in unison, pining for 1957.

[JHB]

23. Big deal: They're just making a trade...

Not that the world isn't that much better off that Cabbagewhacker and Kookamonger have one less "mainstream" credential, but look who they're tying to replace them with: the guy who's moving NR further to the right.

My guess is that they expect Ponnuru to pull in the same set of readers, for less money.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Two more neo-cons headed for Paraguay. n/t

[annabanana]

26. A little less "William the Bloody" is a good thing. .

Now if we could only get him the hell off our TV screens..