On Sunday, Glenn Greenwald demolished the pro-surge scam that Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack have been trying to pull for the last couple of weeks. After Greenwald’s evisceration of these con men, one would think that the matter was settled, that anyone with a reputation to maintain would sooner peddle Nigerian investment opportunities on national television than so much as whisper the names O’Hanlon and Pollack in public.
Ah, but one would misjudge the shameless, pathetic little worm that is Bill Kristol. Granted, Kristol doesn’t have much of a reputation to maintain: his claim to “public intellectual” status is based solely on his frequent Fox News appearances and his editing of such heavyweights as Stephen Hayes and Stephen Comrade Sandalio Suleyman Ahmad al-Kosovi Shaka Zulu Schwartz. Still, even Kristol must have been slightly embarrassed when Jon Stewart instantly shot down his invocation of the Look! Even war critics say the surge is working! talking point on last night’s Daily Show. (It’s about 2:30 into this clip.)