<p>Bill Kristol is extremely intelligent but I don’t think I would trust him as an unbiased news source: (some wikipedia stuff—I know i know 
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<p>"Kristols political activities began at the ripe old age of 12, when he aided Daniel Patrick Moynihans campaign for City Council president. In 1968, while he was in high school, Kristol volunteered to work on the campaign of Hubert Humphrey. </p>
<p>In 1972 he helped organize the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the Washington Democrat around whom many neoconservatives organized in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Because of his extremely close ties to the defense industry, the ultra-hawkish Jackson was dubbed the senator from Boeing.) (14)</p>
<p>In the mid-1970s, Kristol switched to the Republican Party along with many other neoconservatives. After working on the staff of then-Secretary of Education William Bennett in the early 1980s, Kristol ran the unsuccessful 1988 U.S. Senate campaign of Alan Keyes in Maryland. (13) While working as Vice President Dan Quayles chief of staff he earned the moniker Quayles Brain.</p>
<p>In the 1990s, Kristol founded a number of successful initiatives that helped make him a key inside-the-beltway pundit. Using money from Rupert Murdoch, Kristol established (along with fellow neoconservative scion, John Podhoretz) The Weekly Standard, which is today considered a must-read for anyone trying to divine the course of Bush administration policies; in 1997 he founded (with Robert Kagan) the Project for the New America Century; and earlier in the decade, he began the Project for the Republican Future, an organization that was credited with helping shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. In 2000, the Washington Posts Howard Kurtz described Kristol as having become part of Washingtons circulatory system, this half-pol, half-pundit, full-throated advocate with the nice-guy image who is wired to nearly all the Republican presidential candidates. (14)</p>
<p>Kristol is coauthor, with The New Republics Lawrence Kaplan, of the 2003 book The War over Iraq, in which the authors state that the wisdom of regime change, the merits of promoting democracy, the desirability of American power and influence–these issues extend well beyond Iraq. So we dare to hope that this work will prove useful even after Baghdad is finally free"; he is coauthor, with Robert Kagan, of a much-quoted 1997 Foreign Affairs article called Towards a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy, in which the authors argue that the United States should establish a benevolent hegemony; and he edited, with Robert Kagan, Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy (Encounter Books) 2000.</p>
<p>In 2002 Media Bypass reported, In what has been called punditgate, conservative journalists Bill Kristol and Erwin Stelzer of The Weekly Standard
have been exposed for accepting Enron largesse.
Kristol, chief of staff to former Vice President Dan Quayle, took $100,000 without disclosing the payments at the time.
Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard who postures as an independent journalist, got the money for serving on an Enron advisory board, and, in the words of Stelzer, keeping Enron Chairman Ken Lay and his team up to date on general public policy trends. (16)</p>
<p>Kristol was dubbed “Dan Quayle’s brain” by The New Republic upon being appointed the Vice President’s chief of staff
As Quayle’s speechwriter, Kristol would regularly sprinkle Quayle’s speeches with numerous classical references; this stopped after a reporter discovered that Quayle had no idea where one citation from Plato had come from.
When voting in the 1984 November election in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kristol inadvertently voted for the Communist candidate for Tip O’Neill’s House seat, thinking that Tip’s sole opponent was a Republican. </p>
<p>Kristol first made his mark as leader of the Project for the Republican Future, a conservative think tank, and rose to fame as a conservative opinionmaker during the battle over the Clinton health care plan. In his first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should “kill”, not amend or compromise on, the Clinton health care plan. In doing so, Kristol presented the first public document uniting Republicans behind total opposition to the reform plan. A later memo advocated the phrase There is no health care crisis, which Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole used in his response to Clinton’s 1994 State of the Union address.</p>
<p>After the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in 1994, arguably a result of the debacle over health care reform, Kristol established, along with neoconservative John Podhoretz and with financing from Rupert Murdoch, the conservative periodical The Weekly Standard. In 1997, he founded, with Robert Kagan, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a movement credited in part for some of the foreign policy decisions of the Bush administration as evidenced by their 1998 letter to US President Bill Clinton advocating military action in Iraq to “protect our vital interests in the Gulf”. He is also a member of the long-time conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute from which the Bush administration has borrowed over two dozen members to fill various government offices and panels. Kristol is currently chairman of PNAC and editor of The Weekly Standard.</p>
<p>In 2005, Kristol caused controversy by praising President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address without disclosing his role as a consultant to the writing of the speech. Kristol praised the speech highly in his role as a regular political contributor during FOX’s coverage of the address, as well as in a Weekly Standard article, without disclosing his involvement in the speech either time."</p>