Bill Kristol On ‘Renegade Jew’ Label From Breitbart: ‘I’m A Proud Jew’

After a Breitbart columnist dubbed neoconservative figurehead Bill Kristol a “Renegade Jew” for his efforts to draft a third-party candidate to challenge presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, Kristol said he’s a proud Jew.

Asked Tuesday morning on CNN what the term, evoked by conservative columnist David Horowitz, means, Kristol replied, “I don’t know, you should ask them.” He also said he didn’t intend to read the post.

“I’m a proud Jew, I’m a proud Jew, a strong supporter of Israel, I don’t think I’ve ever been called a renegade Jew before,” he said in the interview.

The Weekly Standard editor continued: “It’s a big country, a lot of people, and people can build their websites and engage in that kind of rhetoric and put on headlines on pieces like that, I suppose.”

Kristol also disputed the Breitbart piece labeling him as a “Republican spoiler,” saying 2016 marks the first time in 11 election cycles that he didn’t plan to vote for the GOP presidential nominee.

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  1. I don’t know about “proud,” but the man has been wrong about everything, so he is certainly a dumb Jew. That’s hard to accomplish.

  2. Avatar for bkmn bkmn says:

    Kristol is too dumb to even realize he has been insulted. Why does he have such a good paying job when he is such a complete idiot?

  3. I remained pissed at myself for not keeping a database of all the times Bill’s been flat-out wrong. It would be the biggest file on my computer.

  4. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Proverbs 16:18, BK.

    doG’s gonna gitchu!

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