George Will's Atrophied Intellectual Curiosity. He may well have exhausted his shelf life.

American Thinker ^ | 03/08/2011

[SeekAndFind]

For all his contributions to the cause, and they have been many, conservative media personality George Will may well have exhausted his shelf life.

In his much-discussed Sunday column, Will all too predictably excoriated those Republicans politicians and pundits who have questioned Obama's origins and ideology. 

Most troubling was Will's slam of WOR Radio host Steve Malzberg for asking would-be presidential candidate Mike Huckabee a question that strikes those of us who have done some investigating as altogether reasonable:

Asked Malzberg, "Don't you think it's fair also to ask [Barack Obama] . . . how come we don't have a health record, we don't have a college record, we don't have a birth certificate . . . . Don't you think we deserve to know more about this man?"

According to Will, Huckabee should have answered, "I've seen paranoia, goodbye." Why paranoia, George?  Why is it unreasonable for a media person to ask basic questions for which we still have no answers? 

If people in Will's position had asked these questions in 2008, Barack Obama would not be president today.  But they did not.  They have continued to operate under the mid-twentieth century William Buckley model of a conservative commentator: be wise, be droll, and stick to the news the other guys put on the table lest someone think you kooky.

Buckley, however, operated before the Internet.  He had little choice but to comment on the other guy's news.  So did Will in the early years of his career, but now he has no such excuse.  The information is out there for those who look.  Will does not have to rely on what the Post tells him

As I show in my new book, Deconstructing Obama, the Post's award-winning reporter David Maraniss wrote a lengthy biographical piece on the next president two months before the election and made a hash of it.  Among other things, he missed the fact that Obama and mother, Ann Dunham, spent the first year of Obama's life in Washington State without Barack Obama Sr.

The little Obama family, the one that Obama boasted about in his two convention speeches, never was.  Barack Obama ascended to the presidency on a profoundly and provably false origins story, but Will would have us stick with the counterfeit story because it has the Post's imprimatur.

Like too many conservatives in Washington, Will has chosen not to know any more than the Post tells him.  That is bad enough.  But when he scolds those who chosen to know more, he makes me remember why I can no longer bring myself to watch Sunday morning TV.

Jack's Book-TV presentation on Deconstructing Obama will air on C-SPAN II this Saturday evening at 7 PM EST and Sunday morning at 10 AM.

[izzatzo]

Will’s shelf life has expired, period, end of discussion.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Wow! This guy can write.

[truthkeeper]

The issue is not whether BO has a birth certificate or even where he was born and raised. The issue is whether or not THE MEDIA would be asking these questions of the Republican candidate under the exact same circumstances.

And I think we all know the answer to that one.

[Rennes Templar]

He’s a CFR member, their MO is not to put their underling in a bad light.

[kbennkc]

So who was Will wrong about dismissing as a viable Presidential candidate, Huckabigot or the pig eyed fornicating Newt?

[rottndog]

Will’s become nothing more than another patch of scum floating around on the putrid Washington swamp. All the many years of his commentary and insight, and for that matter all the other milquetoast RINO country clubber commentators, and where has it gotten us? And yet he preaches more of the same while we tumble towards oblivion.

Go away George...

[fishtank]

“pig eyed fornicating Newt?”

You DO have a way with words!!

Too true!!!!!!!

[ml/nj]

Huckabee should have answered, "I've seen paranoia, goodbye."

Anyone know how the Huckster actually answered?

ML/NJ

[y6162]

Will dismisses birthers as crazy because he fears the constitutional crisis that would erupt, ending in the arrest of the Kenyan Impostor and most of the Democratic leadership for treason.

I am a birther.

[samtheman]

"Don't you think it's fair also to ask [Barack Obama] . . . how come we don't have a health record, we don't have a college record, we don't have a birth certificate . . . . Don't you think we deserve to know more about this man?"

[hinckley buzzard]

George Will is first and foremost a wordsmith. He cares more about crafting a well-turned phrase to impress his liberal friends, than to poke holes in their hot air balloons. Granted, the latter will seriously curtail his popularity on the party circuit.

[nascarnation]

I’s also like to know who put up the millions needed for attorney fees to put all of Baraq’s info in the “lockbox”.

I believe Baraq did this prior to becoming wealthy himself.

[martin_fierro]

"Let's. Talk. Baseball."

[samtheman]

Good point. Too bad there’s no news media.

[Terry Mross]

These questions WERE asked about McCain. Would he be eligible for president having been born in Panama? The congress took it upon themselves to make this decision so McCain could run. But I believe it was done so obama could run.

The thing that upsets me the most is they apparently KNEW McCain and the kenyan would be the nominees. All part of the Bush/McCain/GOP/Rino plan.

[Glenn]

Will’s shelf life has expired, period, end of discussion.

If you had half the intellect George Will has, you'd realize you have no idea what his shelf life is.

[samtheman]

I meant to say, too bad there’s no Journalism in America.

[nascarnation]

That’s the same media that was able to produce a full dossier on previous complete unknown Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher in 24 hours while ignoring the background of Baraq for the 24 months leading up to the election.

[bvw]

Bark dog! Good dog! You deserve a special treat today. Roll over!