Bill Kristol joins ABC News

[Botany]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/02/bill-kristol-joins-abc-news-182527.html

Bill Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, has joined ABC News as a contributor, "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos announced on Sunday.

A source familiar with the negotiations says the former Fox News commentator has landed with ABC in a handshake agreement that they're about to sign. ABC News spokesperson Heather Riley also confirmed Kristol's move in an email.

The agreement, one source said, includes regular appearances on the Sunday show, as well as special events and other political-relaed events. But there's also a window that allows him to do other shows on cable television.

Kristol ended a decade-long run as Fox News contributor last summer two years after he and Roger Ailes got into a disagreement that had a cooling effect on their relationship.

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Liberal Media =

Has there ever been one person who has been so wrong about so many things
as Bill Kristol? People should remember his cheer leading for the Iraq war and
how he said that sectarian violence would really not be a problem.

Disclaimer I hate Kristol's smug face and smug ass smile.

[CanonRay]

1. Sorry, that's ABC "News"

[Rex]

2. Wow the corporate media sure does love them some failures.

I guess it was time for ABC to roll over for their paymasters.

[Botany]

7. ABC = Disney = ESPN = Home Depot = pushing the right wing propaganda

And we gotta love us "the troops" who protect our freedoms.

I wish I could make Kristol visit a former neighbor's son
who is dying* from brain cancer he got from being in Iraq
and being around the KBR burn pits.


* He might be dead already.

[Orrex]

3. It seems likely that he'll eventually get something right

It's hard to believe that someone could be wrong about everything for as long as Kristol has been.

[cordelia]

4. Ain't it the truth?

Why would anyone pay attention to anything that smug bastard has to say?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Hard to believe they could find someone worse than George Will but goddammit they did it.

Saw him on This Week yesterday. Hard to say who was a bigger moran, him or Ana Navarro.

[gerogie2]

6. ABC news has become an infotainment network

There nightly news is filled with reports that belong on Entertainment tonight.

[JHB]

8. Ask George

Ask George why he's bringing on the guy whose magazine drove his old colleague Vince Foster to suicide.

Ask George why he's bringing on a guy who's wrong so often he practically needs one of his magazine's proofreaders to make sure he's spelled "ABC" right.

Ask George why he thinks Wrong Way Bill's opinion is so valuable that it beat out all of the other possible people he could be using in that airtime.

Just ask George "Why?!"

[Berlum]

9. Meet the new right-wing chickenhawk propaganda pimp (R)

Same as the old right-wing chickenhawk propaganda pimps.

[n2doc]

10. They must need another person to push for war with Iran and Syria n/t

[Tom Ripley]

11. A lifetime of falling upwards

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. ABC needed someone who would make Stephanopoulos look taller.