Kristoff Recants

Nicholas Kristoff has earned such a reputation within the blogosphere for being wrong with his end-of-the-world predictions that his name has become both a noun and a verb. To Kristoff, is to predict with eargerness, that something dreadful will happen to the United States and that hopefully, George W. Bush will be blamed for it. Such predictions are also known as a Kristoff. Kristoff awards are given to those who also make such predictions, although such awards might be renamed for Gary Kamiya, who openly admits that he hoped for a long, bloody war with mounds of US casualties so that Bush could be defeated next year.
Anyway, the meaning of the verb, to Kristoff, might have to be changed as he as done something quite unique. He admitted that he was wrong and gave George W. Bush grudging credit.
Give the man credit. This doesn't happen often. Generally, being a liberal excuses one from ever having to admit error.