Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

I thought I got rid of this guy. Kristol Ball, always wrong, but I guess he still has a forum somewhere, like anyone else. The Economist, thankfully, tackles his ridiculousness in solid form here:

He seems to get most things wrong, but I have a perverse fascination with his logic, largely because it is so unsound.

I know what he means. Someone so off on everything–it’s compelling in a way. But, eh, not that compelling.

You can see why I enjoy Sullivan sometimes:

Kristol, who is always wrong…

You can’t go…wrong…with a sentence that begins like that. Kind of reminds me of a song…oh yeah, this one!

Whether it does or not, this is how it should happen. Not by an act of war from the U.S. but from within, the way revolutions do. Cheers to the people of Iran who have taken it up with their government, or whatever it is you call it there–regime, assholery. Just think, if Bill Kristol and many others of his gang had their way, we could have killed many of these same people in the name of democracy for the Middle East. Weird how they become brave heroes when they do it themselves, as opposed to enemies of war when we do it for them.

How many young Iraqis did not live to be able to choose their own revolution, I wonder?

Imagine how Bill Kristol could have mocked me, if I had wrote the lyrics to a song back in 2007 about how wrong he is all the time and then he turned out to be right about everything. That song would be sitting there looking real dumb, out of touch and outdated before it was ever heard.

But thankfully, this is Bill Kristol we are talking about here. He never lets you down. You can mock his inaccuracy all day and night, year after year, and never have to worry about him suddenly turning around and getting something right. In that spirit, the Booze Cabinet offers congrats to the celebrated Mr. K for winning Andrew Sullivan’s Von Hoffman Award for “for stunningly wrong political, social and cultural predictions.” Hats off. He earned it!

But really, shouldn’t that award be named for him by now?

Professionally Wrong New York Times columnist Bill Kristol’s job appears to be on the line, or at least, his contract is ending soon. There’s no doubt that the song “Kristol Ball” has helped shed light on Mr. Kristol’s propensity for Wrongness (listen to a clip at iTunes, or just buy the album here!), and so, if forced, Milk at Midnight will take credit if and when his career takes a dive.

But in all seriousness, I have no problem with conservative writers; it would just be great if they prized factual information and used it as a basis for their thoughts. Bill Kristol has demonstrated none of that talent. So, off with his head!

The one and only Kristol Ball is at it again:

In the short time since he was named an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times, Bill Kristol has written a series of sloppy, error-plagued and incomparably hackish columns.

In his latest, Kristol introduces such an amazing groundwork for logic that, if followed, would mean that neither Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain are strong enough candidates to be their party’s nominee. Or, in other words, Kristol’s argument for McCain’s chances are actually even more effective as arguments against his chances. It’s a world of pretzel logic. That’s my guy, Bill Kristol!

UPDATE:

From Glenn Greenwald:

There is now a correction appended to Kristol’s last column in order to correct two factual errors he made (that makes a total of four corrections in less than six months that Kristol has been writing a once-a-week NYT column). It reads:

Correction: May 21, 2008In his column on Monday, Bill Kristol said he could not find a recent primary in which the candidate who would go on to win the nomination lost by as big a margin as Barack Obama lost by (41 points) in West Virginia. Mitt Romney won the essentially uncontested Utah primary on Feb. 5 with about 90 percent of the vote.

Also, the California Supreme Court is based in San Francisco, not the state capital, Sacramento.

The correction is intended to downplay the significance of Kristol’s error (“Mitt Romney won the essentially uncontested Utah primary on Feb. 5 with about 90 percent of the vote”), but it fails to note that McCain also lost the Arkansas primary by 40 points to Mike Huckabee.