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A conversation with George Will - Charlie Rose
2008-06-04 19:24:00 A conversation with George Will - Charlie Rose I watched this last night, and hope to look at the video to consider a few things a little more closely. I think the turns that conservatism is making at this juncture are something to analyze. Do Christians have a political platform with which to identify their ...
By: TrueGrit
George Will can?t stop lying!
2008-06-04 18:38:00 I now know why Elvis shot that TV set. If you missed it, Stephen Colbert’s special guest last night was conservative pundit George Will. I almost typed “addle-headed pathological liar George Will,” but didn’t because I think a cursory look at what he actually said will make that clear enough. Show, don’t tell, as I always instruct my writing students. So let’s start by watching the segment. WARNING: people with above-average intelligence who have eaten a greasy meal in the last couple of hours should grab a barf bag before clicking play. Now, let’s consider some of what he said. Conservatives tend to favor freedom and are willing to accept inequalities of outcome from a free market and liberals tend to favor equality of outcome and to sacrifice and to circumscribe freedom in order to get it. First, let’s examine those first five words, and let’s do so explicitly within the context of GOP policy over the last few years. If ...
Calling Out Phony-Baloney George Will
2008-05-22 17:28:00 There is a person who’s columns I regularly read, because I often find it fun to disagree with him. This person is George Will, conservative commentator and phony-baloney. I call him a...
By: Green Options
George Will and his questions for Barack Obama
2008-05-14 04:45:00 Just because you use big words and talk slowly doesn’t mean that you are right. William Buckley was one of those slow talkers but somehow I could tolerate him. I have little tolerance for George Will. His stature just shouts, “I’m smarter than you.” I don’t know. He may be ...
The best George Will column I've ever read.
2008-04-15 07:30:00 Erudite, calm, non-exploitive, educational. Wow! Candidate on a High Horse.Powered by b2evolution.
By: Asymmetric
This Week's Kickers, Guts, & Orgasms
2008-01-20 22:02:00 George Stephanopoulos's "This Week" consensus: Sick Willie's verbal projectile vomiting is hurting HIllary. KGO TV vid courtesy NewsBustersShill Bill behaving like "craven politico" George felt by the end of his WH tenure: a "bungee without a cord." BusinessWeek Foreign Affairs
By: Chickaboomer
George Will on Obama
2008-01-07 06:02:00 The amazing thing about Barack Obama is the manner in which he is receiving praise from conservatives as well as liberals. George Will compared Obama to the two populist candidates, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee: Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of ...
By: Liberal Values
George Will's Theory of Everything
2008-01-06 17:30:00 Momma always did have a way of explaining things so I could understand them.- Forrest GumpWell, Momma probably read a lot of George Will. Today in "The Problem With Populists", as he so often does, Will makes sense of the muddle both parties find themselves in currently with the the primary season moving into full swing. What caught my attention right off the bat was his analysis of the Huckabee effect, which Ron has frequently written about.Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives, many of whom share Huckabee's desire to "take back this nation for Christ," have collaborated with limited-government, market-oriented, capitalism-defending conservatives who want to take back the nation for James Madison. Under the doctrine that conservatives call "fusion," each faction has respected the other's agenda...
More signs George Will is losing it
2008-01-06 17:29:00 James Joyner, earlier today: George Will closes a subpar (by his standards, at least) column on the silly populism of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards with this praise for Barack Obama: Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee — an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic “fights” against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country. Will seems to be joining the growing chorus of Republicans, even conservative ones, who claim they would vote for Obama over Huckabee. Michael Totten is the latest blogger I’ve seen make that assertion. Stephen Green seems to be leaning that way (and may have stated so outright, although his archives are FUBAR as the moment). I’ve seen a handful of others in recent days, although their names escap...
By: BitsBlog
Snark of the Day: George Will
2008-01-06 12:14:00 Although [Mike] Huckabee and [John] Edwards profess to loathe and vow to change Washington’s culture, each would aggravate its toxicity. Each overflows with and wallows in the pugnacity of the self-righteous who discern contemptible motives behind all disagreements with them, and who therefore think opponents are enemies and differences are unsplittable. George Will, from TownHall, via Hot Air.
By: BitsBlog
Another Phony Soldier Spouts Evil Liberal Dogma-Listening, Rush?
2007-10-31 22:39:00 The October 31 issue of the Stars& Stripes carried a letter from a soldier in Iraq who undoubtedly qualifies under the Rush Limbaugh criteria of being a phony soldier. Here is an extract from the column: “One thing I could see less of in the Stars & Stripes is the column of Ann Coulter, not ...
George Will: McCain is 'yesterday's maverick' compared to Ron Paul
2007-10-30 16:30:00 Will added, however, that "if [Ron Paul] hurts any candidate, it would be McCain. McCain's yesterday's maverick. This is serious maverickism.""Ron Paul is actually a true conservative," commented Will's fellow panelist, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.read more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
It’s George Will Versus Al Gore Versus Sam Donaldson
2007-10-15 04:08:00 It’s truly fascinating to watch former Vice President Al Gore’s critics — particularly those who insist global warming is merely a liberal buzz phrase — belittle his winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Would they belittle the prize if someone THEY agreed with won it? George Will and (a visibly aged) Sam Donaldson go at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eLJtzIHKUus Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-themoderatevoice/~3/169891633/-
George Will: A Rocky Rollout For Thompson
2007-09-14 04:41:00 I think it is fairly safe to assume that George Will is by no means an ardent fan of Fred Thompson. In this piece Will thoroughly takes Thompson to task over his admittedly hazy recollections of past positions and of current issues. No one that has followed Fred Thompson will be surprised by this. He is by no means a policy wonk and has said as much any number of times. What Fred Thompson has going for him, and this obviously does not work for all people, is his down home charm and straight from the shoulder speaking style. Thompson connects with people on an emotional level. He appeals to people because he seems to just take things in stride. You sense that he is not easily frazzled and that is something everyone looks for in a President. I think the voting public will give him a lot more leeway than Will is likely to. I expect to hear more of the same from other political pundits yet at the same time I expect his numbers to keep climbing. ~RJH Washington Post article link A Rocky ...
George Will declares surge "failed."
2007-09-13 10:33:00 Before Gen. David Petraeus' report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq's Anbar province to underscore the success of the surge in making some hitherto anarchic areas less so. More significant, however, was the fact that the president did not visit Baghdad. This underscored the fact that the surge has failed, as measured by the president's and Petraeus' standards of success. More here. George Will doesn't say anything as bad as Reid's "we lost" statement, but he still commits an error by caring about a set of pass-fail "benchmarks" instead of acknowledging a change in momentum, which is ultimately more important than if the Iraqi parliament passes this law on that day. Will also ignores the camel in the room: We might not meet every benchmark at the planned time, but what's the alternative? Does Will want to hand Iraq over to unpredictable and assuredly dangerous fate because some of the positive numbers may have non-surge related causes?
By: Asymmetric
George Will Ponders a Fred Thompson Candidacy
2007-04-08 06:37:00 Is there anyone else up there? George Will - Townhall.com A man walking along the edge of a cliff slips and plummets toward jagged rocks and crashing surf, barely saving himself by clinging to the cliff’s face. But the cliff is too steep to climb, so he shouts, “Is anyone up there?” A voice fills the sky ...
George Will's "Facts and Faith" Framing
2007-03-06 05:05:00 In a recent column from Newsweek, George Will takes on the topic of global warming, arguing that we don’t really know that human activity is causing global warming, and even if it was, we don’t know that this would be a bad thing.Will’s piece provides a good example of how someone can frame an argument with only a few choice words. In this case, Will carefully chooses his terminology in the early part of the column to insinuate that he’s the rational, sober voice of reason, while those who warn of global warming’s dangers base their beliefs on unsubstantiated beliefs.We see this even in the title of the column itself, “Inconvenient Kyoto Truths.” These are the “truths” Will sets out to present to us, as opposed to the unthinking dogma of those on the other side.Will’s first swipe at the idea of global warming as established fact is his line, “Many senators and other experts in climate science say we must ‘do something’ about global warming.” By ironically...
George Will Has Helped Me See The Light
2007-01-04 19:23:07 You can say what you want about George Will. At least on the internet because he has stated clearly that he never reads blogs; the only site he regularly visits is ESPN.com for sports information. A fine conservative mind like Will’s is always worth delving into. He is, if nothing else, a fine antidote to the excesses of his counterparts on the left. Sometimes, though, his opinions veer towards a precipice of logic that I have been opposed to all my life. In THE MINIMUM WAGE IS STILL A BAD IDEA Mr. Will makes the case that the minimum wage is an obsolete concept that belongs back in the 1930’s. The problem is that demand for almost everything is elastic: When the price of something goes up, demand for it goes down. Obviously were the minimum wage to jump to, say, $15 an hour, that would cause significant unemployment among persons just reaching for the bottom rung of the ladder of upward mobility. But suppose those scholars are correct who say that when the minim... |
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