Did Will not notice this?

Of course he noticed it.

But Will - and all to many other Establishment 'journalists' - are paid to write articles that look favorably on Republicans and on Republican ideas.

This dynamic has been quite obvious for some time to those paying attention.

Yes , it becomes like the pigs in the parlour . A bit smelly and a tad noisy , but one becomes accustomed to the habits of pigs when one accepts that they fly and whistle .
Good boy Mr. Will , you are another fine addition to the long list of frighteningly corrupt eponymous no accounts .

Did Will not notice of this?

Features, not bugs, Steve;>

George Will is a player in conservative circles. He's so hip to the far righters, his moniker is Dah G. Man when he's not being referred to as Willster or What Will He Write Next to Muddy the Discourse Dude!

I just call him putz! -Kevo

Did Will not notice of this?

Isn't there some expression involving looking for chastity in a whorehouse?

Eisenhower introduced us to the Military-Industrial Complex. By necessity-and Constitutional fiat- the military is limited to foreign activities, using the toys and tools provided by the industrial partner of the marriage.

Domestically, politicians saw the advantage of such a marriage, and wooed the main Stream Media, using not flowers and candy, but insider access and invitations to the salons of Georgetown.

Tell anybody that they are handsome, smart, and wise, and they will put aside any professional integrity they may have picked up in J school.

Shortly after the marriage was consummated, the politicians discovered that the MSM had a kid sister named Cable/Blog, and they would do things even their MSM spouse would not.

i'm reading "The Age of
Anxiety" by Haynes Johnson-totally on point about the disgraceful alliance of compliant press and demagogues from McCarthy to the present.

Steve--amidst all the high profile inside the beltline BS, the week's biggest real news is lost. The best (and only honest) argument for not reducing emissions to reduce global warming came from Bjorn Lomborg, who has argued, quantitatively, that after-the-fact remediation/coping is cheaper than trying to do something ahead of time, because he calculated that emissions reduction efforts would cost more (thru reduced economic growth). Anyhow, he announced that his continued quantitative studies have now convinced him that emissions reductions measures are justified. The details will apparently be published soon. This pretty much jerks the rug out from under the not so honest emissions on the topic from George Will. This is probably of more lasting value than Will's love fest for Ken Buck, the latest crazy GOPer to emerge from the cowboy socialist, Federal water subsidy guzzling American West.

I used to think Will had integrity and would not support candidates who sought to tear down important institutions. I was wrong.

meanwhile,

Boycott FOX
Boycott the Wall Street Journal

Will's bad habit is lying. But what's he gonna do? His job is to sell the sow's ear of conservative policy as a silk purse.

If Republican ideas were so great, its apologists wouldn't have to be so dishonest about them. QED.

There are a lot of unhinged Republicans out there. And many more Republicans who commit blatant hypocrisies as a daily exercise. For a handful of reasonably intelligent conservatives these characters cast doubt on the Party's agenda and direction.

George Will's job is to rationalize the irrational in language flowery enough to convince the few conscious conservatives to hold their noses and vote the ticket every November. "Will is a smart man," they say. "So maybe the nutjobs aren't so bad after all."

To repeat the above by paraphrasing Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to notice something, when his salary depends upon his lying his ass off!

Will has another bad habit -- lying in the interests of the energy industry. There's a good living in climate change denial.

I've never cared for George Will and his pompous attitude of crap. I used to like Cokie Roberts even if I disagreed with her, but even she has developed that pompous attitude of crap. But I don't expect any less when they are getting their paychecks from a republican owned organization called MSM.

Did Will not notice of this?

What does that have to do with anything? George Will is just a whore that does what he is paid to do.

The would , could , useless project of the minute for earnest plodders are comforted by the syncopated sugared symmetry provided by Pravda . It will take more than a few senseless stories about utter abject nonsense to shake the generational lull which controls the poisonous pablum of Brookes and Will .
The fair haired wonder boys of one hundred percent wrong i ness didn't get to be wrong because of any talent or merit , they are always wrong because they chose to be . The force of anti Americanism wedged into daily consciousness by the Rupertarians and Pauliflication choruses is not going anywhere gently , nor are the cuddly cudgels less lethal because of the stylised faux Cronkite avuncular wisdom . What they mean by their business is an end to America and the business of a government of the people .

Isn't this the dude who said something about not wearing high heels as a reason to vote for him? I suppose that would have to be qualified as full blown gaffe, surely why Will glossed it over.

Such things used to be done on the basis of TVQ--a quotient based on surveyed appeal to TV viewers. Will's was high a few decades ago, before he took on the aspect of an animatronic mortician. His old source of scoops--the Nancy Reagan network--has dried up. What's he doing there still, in the face of all that younger, hungry talent?

Pictures in a safe maybe, or just the connections established in a lifetime of sycophancy. He's a known quantity, a reliable extra man, a walker for the provincial backwater that is DC.

Does anyone read him, or watch him? Why do you? Better to spend your time looking at the jackals trailing Beck, Breitbart and the like--Will is the backwash from the Alsop set.

My theory: Will believes that the future of the Republican Party--and therefore of the professional Conservative establishment--is going to be controlled by the Tea Party wing of the party. He believes that his ability to earn a living beyond his column (and maybe instead of his column if the Wash. Post goes out of business) is dependent upon his remaining in good graces with that establishment, so he's building up his credit with them.

Absent some explanation like the above, it's very hard to understand how Will could feel comfortable about either Bachmann or Angle (I don't know enough about Buck to say the same). They both represent the anti-intellectualism and wackiness of the fringe with which Will has always seemed uncomfortable.

I had an interesting George Will experience a while back. During the Bush administration he wrote a Post column excoriating Senate Democrats for using the filibuster to block Bush's judicial nominees. I was able to dig up a column that he had written during the Clinton administration, endorsing the idea of Republicans using the filibuster to block Clinton's nominees. Shortly after I posted the link as a comment on the Post website, both the earlier column and all comments disappeared.

Intellectual dishonesty needs its enablers in order to succeed.

George Will? In a rational world, he would have been sent back to a community college teaching gig for Briefing Book Gate (see http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010308.html ), not to mention hundreds tendentious, slanted, partisan, and downright false statements that are sadly carried by thousands of deadtree papers.
The only reason the Potomac Pecksniff has a job is that he is a reliable Media Whore with the added benefit that his bowtied, thinlipped scornful stance resonates with an allegedly conservative audience.
He's a movement conservative, and must not help the Enemy/Dems/left in any way. Facts and honor be damned...

Actually, it isn't clear whether Social Security is constitutional or not. But if it isn't, then neither is NASA or even the Lewis-Clark expedition.

Will is such a major bad-faith commentator, and keep publicizing that debate prep for Reagan.

Rasputin22: you and everyone else who can, make screen shots and save HTMLs etc. of old columns of anyone you think we can find contradictions about later. Browse archive.org etc. too. But newspaper sites rarely literally get rid of archive items, they usually just change links etc. and make them harder to find. (?)

"Fine minds make fine distinctions."

Where's the DNC with an ad listing all Republicans candidates and those currently holding office who believe that the Department of Education should be dissolved?

The list is fairly long.

I think the public should know what they're asking for if they give Republicans a majority in Congress.

In fact, three ads would be even better -- one for education, one for social security and one for medicare.

"George Will? In a rational world, he would have been sent back to a community college teaching gig for Briefing Book Gate (see http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010308.html ) ..."

Exactly. Will was always clearly a partisan Republican, but that's no sin for a columnist. The briefing book incident exposed him as a hack more in Lee Atwater's business than David Broder's. Of course, in a world where a PR outfit run by former Reagan operative Roger Ailes is treated as a news organization, Will's treatment as a legitimate commentator should be no surprise.

The only protection from this kind of thing is caveat emptor, but if the emptor can't be bothered there's nothing else to be done.

Will isn't just being a whore or a Beltway hack, though he is, of course, both of those things. He's doing what all solid, rank and file country club Republicans do, and have been doing for decades as their party has become progressively more insane, more rabidly anti-intellectual and disassociated from reality. They just make whatever perceptual adjustments are necessary to their own brain to convince themselves that they're totally okay with voting for people who are completely unfit for public office, whether because of lack of intelligence or mental illness.

doesn't matter if it's a teabagger or a corportist, as long as it has an "R" behind its name bowtie boy will get around to fluffing it eventually...