{"id":348815,"date":"2018-02-18T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-kristol-is-not-yet-out\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:41:26","slug":"bill-kristol-is-not-yet-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-kristol-is-not-yet-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Kristol Is Not Yet Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just been reading on Breitbart\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-journalism\/2018\/01\/30\/nolte-bill-kristol-reminds-guy-knew-went-prison\/\">a tirade<\/a>\u00a0against Bill Kristol, which features a comparison between this supposedly falling neocon star and the author\u2019s friend Tony, who landed in jail after stabbing his ex-wife\u2019s lover.\u00a0\u00a0Just like Tony, who unsuccessfully tried to attract his divorced wife\u2019s attention, Bill, we are told, is going nuts in expressing his contempt for Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0But like Tony, who in a fit of frustration destroyed his own life, Bill may be self-destructing as he disses a transformed conservative establishment.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure that this labored comparison works since I\u2019ve no idea what the equivalent is in Bill\u2019s case to Tony \u201cbeing sent to jail.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Anyhow I\u2019ve seen other more forceful recent attacks on Kristol from Trump-supporters and even vanilla conservatives, and while I fully share their distaste for their target, I doubt that any of them is entirely correct.\u00a0\u00a0If my own understanding of the conservative movement is accurate, then Kristol\u2019s critics assume a degree of flexibility in their movement that\u2019s not really there.\u00a0\u00a0The current conservative movement came to be what it is because of those interests that shaped it.\u00a0\u00a0Its donor base is made up noticeably of supporters of weapon procurement\u00a0and foreign policy hawks.\u00a0\u00a0These benefactors are very much in line with Kristol\u2019s\u00a0Weekly Standard\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon, run by<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matt\/\">\u00a0Bill\u2019s son-in-law, Matthew Continetti<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Paul Singer, Rupert Murdoch, Sheldon\u00a0Adelson, and other backers of neoconservative enterprises and Washington \u201cconservative\u201d think-tanks are unlikely to abandon Bill Kristol simply because he\u2019s taken whacks at The Donald, whom most of these donors also hate \u2013 or barely tolerate.\u00a0\u00a0Nor has Kristol&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/paul-gottfried\/bill-kristol-is-not-yet-out\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just been reading on Breitbart\u00a0a tirade\u00a0against Bill Kristol, which features a comparison between this supposedly falling neocon star and the author\u2019s friend Tony, who landed in jail after stabbing his ex-wife\u2019s lover.\u00a0\u00a0Just like Tony, who unsuccessfully tried to attract his divorced wife\u2019s attention, Bill, we are told, is going nuts in expressing his contempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}