After Obama appeared with Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday, Wallace gathered around him his usual crew which includes the Daffy Duck of the right, William Kristol.Kristol, who likes to "point out," used the opportunity to point out how Obama is faltering and stumbling and losing ground to the ever charging, ever tough Hillary Clinton. Then Kristol, practically unable to contain his glee, essentially jumped into the camera to further claim that Clinton not only has all that momentum but, (wait for it) SHE LEADS IN THE VOTE COUNT, TOO.
I'd like to make that an exact quote but I don't have a transcript. However, there is no question it is exactly what he was saying. Loud and certain, no waffling.
Skip forward a mere 24 hours to Kristol's column in the NY Times:
Furthermore, if you add up the votes in all the primaries and caucuses — excluding Michigan (where only Hillary was on the ballot), and imputing the likely actual totals in the four caucus states, where only percentages were reported — Clinton now trails in overall votes by only about 300,000, or about 1 percent of the total....Note all those qualifiers in the column. Compare his assertion in the friendly, and shall we say, less constrictive environs of FOX News to that of the NY Times, which still clings (sadly, often weakly) to some standards for truthfulness. (And even in the Times, Kristol still tenaciously includes Florida and its disallowed primary in this version of his count.)
He can't even agree with himself.
I can hardly wait to see if he has yet a third version in The Weekly Standard where he is Editor.
Well, actually I can wait.
