George Will was one of those Intellectual Conservatives who was championed by the Liberals for his courageous, journalistic act of questioning Sarah Palin’s ability to run the country, which she would have had to do when John McCain died on his third day in office. Will, naturally, was labeled a big city fairy who never would have had the courage to raise a Down Syndrome baby, except for the Down Syndrome baby that he did in fact raise. Well all that election nonsense is over, right, so Will was apparently trying to build back his conservative “base” points with yesterday’s bizarre wingnut rant about the fuckin’ liberals and their obvious plans to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, which the liberals have no intention of reinstating.
You can tell it will be a bad George Will column if he doesn’t trace the contemporary issue at hand to some mid-11th century British common law ruling within the first four sentences:
Reactionary liberalism, the ideology of many Democrats, holds that inconvenient rights, such as secret ballots in unionization elections, should be repealed; that existing failures, such as GM, should be preserved; and, with special perversity, that repealed mistakes, such as the “fairness doctrine,” should be repeated. That Orwellian name was designed to disguise the doctrine’s use as the government’s instrument for preventing fair competition in the broadcasting of political commentary.
Ahh, well that blanket should cover just about everything. No! More!
If reactionary liberals, unsatisfied with dominating the mainstream media, academia and Hollywood, were competitive on talk radio, they would be uninterested in reviving the fairness doctrine. Having so sullied liberalism’s name that they have taken to calling themselves progressives, liberals are now ruining the reputation of reactionaries, which really is unfair.
As Matt Yglesias said yesterday, in about as succinct a fashion as this crap deserves, “Nobody is trying to revive the fairness doctrine. I’m not sure how many times this can be said.”
On the other hand, maybe liberal reactionary Matt Yglesias is trying to revive the fairness doctrine with his Hollywood friends, which really is unfair.
The Fairness Doctrine Fouls Out [WP]
Will Gets Fair [Matt Yglesias]
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Awww poor Will.
Who really gives a shit about the Fairness Doctrine? Of course, it would be nice to have equal time on both political sides of the spectrum, but I would have to think that preventing economic collapse is a just a little more important at this time.
BTW, George. I also hated your books on Beseboll (sic.) Plimpton wrote less snotty sports prose.
Hack.
Here’s a quick game:
[ Did someone use the word "Orwellian"? ]
IF YES:
[ Is that person an English literature scholar making a direct reference to George Orwell's writing style? ]
IF NO:
[ That person should probably shut the fuck up. ]
[re=193182]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
Was there a SNL sketch in the late 80′s featuring Tommy Lasorda and Dana Carvey as George Will, or am I just imagining things? Will waxes rhapsodic on some shit and Lasorda sez “Have you ever actually PLAYED baseball??”.
What we have here is a failure of Will.
George Will has an Iraq War-shaped birthmark on his ass.
Goddamn Librul media…asshat.
What’s the zany fear of the Fairness doctrine that’s overcome the Right, these days? It reminds me of the “e-mail tax” chain letters that still make the rounds.
Poor little Georgie, got beat up 3 times a day when he was younger, and never figured out, Gee, I guess maybe I wouldn’t get beaten up so much if I didn’t act and sound like such a pussy…
[re=193195]TGY[/re]: He should REALLY title his next book “A Triumph of George Will”.
[re=193194]obfuscator[/re]:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89qsportsmachine.phtml
“Fairness?” Yeah, who needs THAT shit on the public airwaves. Next thing ya know, they’ll be demanding “facts” and shit, requiring Rush Limpdick and his like to STFU unless they can stifle the oxy-addled hallucinations and comport with the “reality-based community.”
George Will is “right.” Buncha self-aborting Commie fag junkies.
IMHO. Also.
Personally, I want the equal time thing back. Why you might ask? Because it kept the mindless yammering down to almost nothing on account of the fact that it would be double the yammering and for free as I recall. Just imagine if there were no opinions on the TV and you had to spend all your time on the Wonkette to see what someone who spent most of the weekend playing Eco Driving thought about some political notion instead of thinking about soap purchases.
George Will is a dick.
ha, ha, just noticed it says “loggin in”- you little Palin lovers! Anyway, the dumb conservatives never read Will anyway- they just listened to their Sean and Rush gods about him. All of the conservatives are trying to rebuild themselves.
And speaking of conservative fun…. I wonder why David Brooks isn’t on this list- he lives here too. By the way, I am pretty sure if God had pundits- it wouldn’t be these guys.
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Widespread Winger use of the term “fairnessdoctrine-o-fascists” coming up in 3…2…1.
“Nobody is trying to revive the fairness doctrine.”
“Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.”
I can see how he would think the Dems are lying.
Also, “Bunts” is code for erectile failures.
Occasionally, George likes to joust at windmills. It makes him feel all tingly inside.
god, is george will trying to resurrect slavery again? when will the conservatives stop trying to legally enslave minorities? it’s just outrageous that right wingers want american citizens of a different skin tone to be their slaves.
if there was ever a reason to hate conservatives like george will, it’s their whole obsession with reinstating slavery laws of the 17th century.
outrageous.
You can tell it will be a bad George Will column if he doesn’t trace the contemporary issue at hand to some mid-11th century British common law ruling within the first four sentences.
I always thought you could tell it will be a bad George Will column if contains any, y’know, words.
Let’s rewrite it and enforce the fairness doctrine on Internet comment sections, hmmm….?
[re=193182]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Give me Roger Angell. Please.
I love when conservatives attack a “liberal bias” in academia (pursuing knowledge), media (meaning journalism, i.e. pursuing truth) and Hollywood (meaning the arts, what reflects our culture and sentiments).
Hence, talk radio’s party-establishing role fostering anti-intellectualism and hate-mongering, which makes them the party of W and Palin.
People, have some compassion! Conservative pundits have been stuck defending Bush for the past eight years, as bitter a task as any mortal might imagine, while watching Stephen Colbert, John Stewart and Tina Fey become international superstars. Poor George Will, in the twilight of his wit, saddled with the onerous responsibility of shielding a smirking compulsive liar with delusions of divine mandate from the slings and arrows of outrageously good comedy…woe, woe, woe. You can’t feel his pain? Or Ann Coultur’s (happy birthday Ann, you get Obama backing out on the Iraq pulldown!)? Or Rush Limbaugh’s? If they are, indeed, Christians, which I doubt based on Jesus’ commitment to nonviolence, you know they pray every day for Obama to screw up even 10% as much as Bush. “Oh God, what I could do with just 10% of the material you blessed Tina Fey with….just 10%….”
[re=193194]obfuscator[/re]: http://www.hulu.com/watch/3519/saturday-night-live-george-f-wills-sports-machine
I for one, await our reactionary liberal overlords…dick.
Maybe six, seven years ago, I woke up late one Sunday with a serious headache and hangover thing happening, rolled over and picked up the remote and flipped on the telly. Instantly I saw George Will’s head on the teevee and he was talking about George W. Bush and he said very solemnly “I think he is a very smart man.” Oh how I laughed. I had to puke again, but I did laugh.
In the words of Will’s ex-wife, “take it somewhere else, Buster!”
The comma will be extinct in two years if he continues to use them up at this rate.
[re=193188]mattbolt[/re]: Right. Only Hitchens and Sully can invoke Orwell, ’cause they’re Brits. And dicks.
Did he really write a book called “Bunts”?
What a silly bunt.
[re=193188]mattbolt[/re]: Yeah dude, I know all about people wildly screaming Orwell at any right-wing mantra, but Bush literally said “when we’re talking war, what we’re really talking about is peace” – Orwell lives in ways like that.
“Nobody is trying to revive the fairness doctrine. I’m not sure how many times this can be said.”
You can say it however many time you like, it won’t make it true. Several Democrats have openly called for the fairness doctrine, including Chuck Schumer and Dennis Kucinich.
It’s too bad they don’t have a lying idiot doctrine to shut down Wonkette.
[re=193218]finallyhappy[/re]: Yes, God has pundits (I could never understand why they hyphenate the ‘o’ in God. It’s not God’s name. That’s YHWH, and we don’t even know how to pronounce that anymore)they’re called prophets, like Isaiah and Martin Luther King Jr. Elisha should sic some bears on these motherfuckers.
So I know that photo has been up before, but that is a new shirt he is wearing, right? It has all those fold-marks. I just wonder what he originally wore to the photo-shoot to precipitate the quick sprint to Sears by the intern.
[re=193332]Grst[/re]: Pelosi and Reid have no desire to bring it to the floor, and Obama would veto it.
But Dennis Kucinich is important!
[re=193332]Grst[/re]:
Yes, because the folks who are at Frontline and Redstate are so much more well informed and edumakated (sic.)
[re=193349]Jim Newell[/re]:
Well, Liz is more important.
Orwellian Orwellness is Orwelling its way into Politics, thereby creating an Orwellian society filled with Orwells.
By all means, let the Republicans whine about the fairness doctrine and Obama birth certificates because they’ll be so worried about fake issues that that the Dems could do things like free health care for puppies and giving unemployed people $100,000 in unemployment checks and the Republicans would never notice
Why does George Will occasionally sound sane? Not here, not mostly, but at rare times he looks at you with that owl face and says something that sounds almost astute…just before he buttfuks himself into a tizzyizm….Is there a name for this disease or mental condition….? Oh, and, yes, well, Liz is more important…
[re=193332]Grst[/re]: And we all know that whatever Dennis “Reaction” Kucinich says, goes…
Gosh, thanks George Will for another retarded oxymoronic term involving the word “liberal”! We should just combine your “reactionary liberalism” with Jonah “Doughy Pantload” Goldberg’s “liberal fascism” to get the triple whammy: “reactionary liberal fascism”
[re=193424]Neon Trotsky[/re]: As a socialist libertarian, I applaud George Will’s invention of a new term of political art. Now let’s move on to higher levels of abstraction and contemplate the round square.
The headline made me think that George Will was hatin’ on the libtards for not reproducing. That would have been interesting. Harping on the fairness doctrine is not.
[re=193380]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Oh man, sometimes you are such an Orwellian Orwell in the Orwell. You can just Orwell my Orwell, dude. Know what I’m sayin’?
How are you doing? Fine? Or well?
I love how this article was printed in my newspaper today, and right next to it was a LIBERAL REACTIONARY writing about how fucking nobody in the world even wants to revive the fairness doctrine. The only people who even come close to wanting the fairness doctrine back are George Will, Sean “Flinstone” Hannity, and Rush Oxycontin. They yearn for Barney Frank and Barack Obama’s secret love-clone to champion a new Fairness Doctrine so AM radio can howl for all eternity.
[re=193332]Grst[/re]: “It’s too bad they don’t have a lying idiot doctrine to shut down Wonkette.”
And how many minutes do you think the GOP would last if there was such a doctrine? You should really think before posting sometime. It would make you look far less foolish.
So when the Dems never ever bring this up to the floor of the House or Senate, Hannity and Limbaugh and their lemmings can claim it was all their howling that scared the Dems into not re-introducing the doctrine that they have not had any intention of re-introducing in the first place. I love America.
Are liberal reactionaries conservative progressives? Or are they radical moderates? I’m confused
Is it me or did Georgie just take that shirt out of its wrapper (I hope didn’t miss any of those little pins).
Or he like a lot of starch to keep that shirt on the straight and narrow
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