TeeHee: Bill Kristol say's Imus is a liberal

[59millionmorons]

I almost wet my pants laughing. This the same man who just endorsed John McCain.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. THAT's why he was kicked off the air.

the penny drops.

[rhett o rick]

12. Bingo give the person a cupie doll> nm

[Turbineguy]

2. Of course he's a liberal!

Everybody who gets caught is a liberal. Those are the rules. Duke Cunningham is a liberal now too. So is Jack Abramoff. Even Tom DeLay.

[Cabcere]

26. I think this picture says all that needs to be said about that:

[MODemocrat]

34. They have to lay claim to their beloved Rush Limbaugh

He's a "dopey" individual, and I'm glad the pubbies OWN him.}( }( :+ :+ :bounce: :bounce: :spray:

[49jim]

3. Annie C. said the sme thing. n/t

[billybob537]

4. Commanly held misconception

becouse he was a vocal supporter of John Kerry.

[Handsome Pete]

5. Surrrrrrrrrrrrre he is!

In other news, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Ann Coulter is pretty! </incredulity>

Can't. Type. Kitty on lap....

[rfranklin]

6. LTTE in my local paper painted Imus as a Bush-bashing liberal...

and I think that will be the general meme from the Kool Aid drinkers.

Personally, I don't think that Imus can be easily categorized as liberal or conservative. He mostly praised whoever supported his interests and excoriated those who didn't and He had no overarching political philosophy.

[spooky3]

25. just goes to show how the "librul media" operates-firing their own

:sarcasm:

If the freepers/neo-cons thought about that for long, their heads would explode.

[Cabcere]

29. If they really thought about anything for long, their heads would explode. n/t

[MADem]

7. He's anti-war. That IS the truth. He is a registered Republican.

And that's why this outrage was fanned.

Ask yourself this: Why did three words, followed by abject and repeated apologies, result in a firing before the victims even were allowed to express THEIR desired resolution (and they did NOT want him fired), when the singing of "Barack, the Magic Negro" by Rush Limpballs in a minstrel voice does not result in even a ripple of complaint on the national stage?

I'll bet this is the first many people have heard of this event--it happened just last month, March 19. It sputtered out by the 22nd, with limp coverage in the interim.

Here, read and listen: http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200703230002

There's an audio clip, and if you are not offended by it, I'd be quite surprised. FAIR WARNING.

[spooky3]

8. Yes, behaving in a sexist, racist, bigoted way is a hallmark of liberal values.

:sarcasm:

[chelsea0011]

And Rush is a progressive

[EST]

9. They tried this crap early on.

It didn't fly then; it won't fly now.
They will continue, however...

[The Wizard]

10. That sage Bill Kristol

is also a primary architect of the PNAC Iraq policy. Bill Kristol needs a good beating and should also have his foreskin reattached. If Kristol were in Nazi Germany he'd be pushing his family into gas chambers to curry favor with the leadership. He's just another lying scumbag and war profiteer. Fuck Bill Kristol and the rest of his neocon cartel.

[Doctor_J]

18. Where's that list of Kristol's 100 or so gaffes leading up to the

Iraq debacle?

[gratuitous]

11. Aren't the lizard brains calling Bush a secret liberal, too?

One would think that with his incredible streak of being wrong about, well, everything, Bill Kristol would cease to be invited on the talking chucklehead shows. One minor misstatement, after all, is plenty enough ammunition to ban other folks from the nation's airwaves.

[annabanana]

13. Kristol is a purblind pluperfect idiot.

with less common sense than flan.

[Deja Q]

14. That must mean John McCain is a liberal! Hey, who else has Imus supported?

:evilgrin:

[NI4NI]

17. Imus liked Santorum and J.D. Hayworth n/t

[Doctor_J]

19. Rudy, McCain, Pataki, Whitman, D'Amato,

Molinari, Hayworthless. That's all I have heard of - never listened to him so there must be more.

[Frank Cannon]

27. This whole "Imus was a liberal" thing has me ROTFL

If Don Imus was a liberal, I'm a Jim Inhofe Republican.

[stray cat]

15. He is more outspoken against the Bush Cabel than nearly anyone

More independent than anything

[spooky3]

23. than Maher? Stewart? Olbermann? Colbert? the list goes on.

Quite a few people have been more consistently outspoken--even Maher, who is quite clearly not a liberal, but rather a libertarian.

Imus said whatever he thought would get a rise out of his audience at any time, and his support of Bush enablers (such as Lieberman and those in the corporate media such as Russert) and Republicans weakened anything he said about Bush.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. I guess being that far to the right impairs depth perception

Kristol's remark tells us a lot more about Kristol than Imus.

Imus was annoying more often than not and too often tasteless. Being tasteless is what did him in, not his politics.

In fact, Imus was not sa far to the right that he couldn't call a spade a spade when it become obvious. He had little streaks of common sense now and then, such as in his recent criticism of the Iraq war.

Kristol, on the other hand, can't call a spade a spade. If the facts contradict his ideology, the facts must be wrong. He's like a Bibilcal literalist looking at a fossil; it just can't be there. There must be something he can use to explain it away -- cast doubt on radio carbon dating; the fossil is not as old as scientists say, that's the ticket. Likewise, Kristol explains awya failure in Iraq, since in his world all that needed to be done to make Iraqis happy and content and decide to work our will in free and fair elections was overthrow Saddam and hang him. Any facts to the contrary must be explained away. Civil war in Iraq? Impossible. It's not happening.

In Kristol's world, there's a word for people who don't have religion and think the Iraq war is a failure. They're called liberals. Thus Don Imus gets painted with the same brush as Teddy Kennedy.

[Honeycombe8]

20. For those who've watched Imus' show regularly, like myself....

I know that he is a moderate. He is a registered Republican, but he really is a moderate in his views, as likely to support a Democratic politician as a Republican one.

McCain and Imus have a friendship going back for years, back to the days when McCain really WAS a moderate. Imus doesn't back away from friends (unlike Harold Ford, Jr.).

Imus is pro-environment, anti-Iraq War, anti-Bush, anti-Cheney (he has said that both are war criminals). He said point blank that Libby was guilty, but that the war criminal Cheney was letting Libby take the fall.

As you can tell from his prior statements, he is not a conservative. Those who watched his show knew this. That's what made it so edgey...he spoke his mind and supported a variety of politicians, and spoke sharply about his views, damning the consequences. He didn't fit either a liberal mold OR a conservative mold.

The Democrats lost a leading spokesman for its positions, when it lost Imus. But he did say that awful thing. So....

[spooky3]

24. as you well know, he didn't just "say that awful thing"

but had a consistent pattern for a long time of bigoted statements and behavior. That's hardly a leading spokes(person) for Democratic principles. There is no reason that Dems should have to "settle" to such a great extent. Further, if his anti-war and anti-Bush positions are sincerely held, I am sure Imus will find a way to continue to support them.

As many here and elsewhere have patiently explained repeatedly, doing some good deeds should not get anyone a free pass to do bad things without consequences.

[Alcibiades]

35. Don't' confuse criticism of the Bush administration

with actual liberalism. Bush has already alienated any and all of the traditional, non-dominionist conservatives left in the G old P. Pat Buchanan has been a consistent critic of the Bush administration, after all, but that doesn't make him a liberal, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, or a friend.

If Imus actually were a Democrat, he's certainly smart enough to figure that out himself. He's not, though--he's a rich man who votes for the rich man's party. The Democrats didn't "lose" Imus, because we never had him to begin with.

[rhett o rick]

21. Bill Kristol thinks everyone this side of Hitler is a liberal. nm

[Justice]

22. Imus said he is a registered republican

[Cha]

28. If kristol's swarmy lips are moving then

he's lying. Name one fucking thing he's said that's true.

[Catchawave]

30. LOL...Kristol never listened to the show, did he?

It was an ongoing joke that the Imuses were the only registered republicans on the Upper West Side (which is very liberal) and why they don't have friends.

[Doctor_J]

31. Kristol never lets the truth get in the way of his point

He's the very definition of a pathological liar.

[samsingh]

32. good, so we're owed a right-wing fanatic off the air.

[OHdem10]

33. I am sure I heard Imus and wife describe

themselves as Republicans. They would vote for
the person they thought best candidate.

[kskiska]

36. Then why did Tom DeLay say "If the Left Takes Imus, We’ll Take Rosie"?

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/TomDeLay/2007/04/11/tom_delays_action_points_if_the_left_takes_imus,_we%E2%80%99ll_take_rosie

[Unvanguard]

37. Because Imus made a racist and sexist comment

and only the Left cares about racism and sexism.