Posted on 01/21/2016 11:51:37 AM PST by poconopundit
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This 2016 election will be a changing of the guard. Not only will a host of GOPe and RAT policitians be sent packing, plenty of GOPe commentators will be forced to close their laptops and go home. From the start of Trump's campaign launch, George Will has been one of his loudest critics. And that's perfectly fine. It's a free country.
But why should someone like Will be put on a pedestal? How is his analysis any sharper than that of the many anonymous experts who contribute fine commentary on FR?
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(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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Truth be told, Will's technique is to mix one or two sentences of truth with paragraphs of historical babble. And the aim is to impress us with his incredible mastery of American political history.
And the more obscure the reference, the better for Will because he can now illuuuu-minate we mere mortals and never fear someone calling him to task for getting the facts wrong.
An example is in this piece:
See what I mean? Will lulls us with his poetry. He talks about "prairies" and "grain elevators" to mystify us about America's glorious past. And the purpose is make us believe that he's actually saying something profound.
But what Will says here is not profound at all. All he's saying is that "Trump is not being specific". But that analysis is bogus because Trump wrote Crippled America, has a website, Instagrams, Facebook pages, and talks about his policies at huge rallies 2 or 3 times a week.
To be perfectly honest, some of the commentators I read on Free Republic are much clearer and show keener analysis that Mr. Will.
FR is a much better read than the Washington Post! You learn things. You can ask questions. You read witty back and forth commentary. Several times, I've keeled over laughing at some of the clever insults! It's great.
In short, the chatter of the citizen patriots on FR is far more illuuuu-minating and fun to read than Will's babble.
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Exactly that. For all the people who say “Trump has no specifics” it just means “I’m too lazy to look them up and believe the media”.
Yeah he’s just another trying to impress by babbling BS! I guess he and Whoopi can share a private Jet to Canada come Jan 2017!
Like that doesn't happen every day in posted articles around here.
It is what passes for editorialism and journalism.
The idea isn't so much to sort things out as support a foregone conclusion. It is the same sort of 'evidence' which is used to prop up the Climate Change gig.
I would like to see it laid out, who supported or benefited from what liberal policy, when (and even with footnotes to context to see why). I'd like to see the same done with Conservative policy and the leading candidates--of both parties.
Exactly. These "journalists" are lazy. They don't really put in the work. There's no scholarship or research. Just opinion masking as journalism.
Nicely written.
Oh look republicans might run a guy who supports every aspect of conservatism....has 40% of the dem. vote “because the blue dogs have jumped ship..”....could actually win...better not let him get nominated for cying out loud....sheesh.
Trump is specific (sort of ) on a few issues.
Seems like there are a myriad of issues of concern to Conservatives and we are just guessing where he will fall on those. But hey, reality tv star and all. Let’s go for it.
Maybe a Kardashian VP!
Well, we were definitely on the same wave length! I had a very similar post written up last night, (however, not nearly as epigrammatic in style as yours), in response to reading the entire attached thread.
As I do frequently, I hit delete instead of post.
Fine commentary scattered throughout ... yours included! I rarely turn on my tv, and never have a need to listen to the babble coming from the talking-heads because of FR.
p.s. I had to look up that big word I used :)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3386298/posts?q=1&;page=1
| Yeah, the same thing has happened to me -- hitting delete before the post! S&%F$#! I'm convinced the answer is write these posts in MS Word and then have a macro produce the HTML code. I have it working in principle, so when I get it done I will post on FR. One of the tricks I use is to insert the following code at the top line of each comment to put a right margin on the text: <table width="550"> |
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