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George Will: Trump has a dangerous disability
The Washington Post ^ | May 3, 2017 | George F. Will

Posted on 05/08/2017 1:16:22 PM PDT by EveningStar

It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump’s verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses...

What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation’s history. As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something...

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To: EveningStar
George Will is hypnotic.

Really.

I always have the same reaction to his writings.

I hear a voice saying "you are getting very sleepy....veryyyyy sssslllleeeeeeppyyy."

61 posted on 05/08/2017 2:12:26 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: EveningStar

At least he knows his a$$ from a hole in the ground unlike Obama boy will the shill.


62 posted on 05/08/2017 2:15:51 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EveningStar

Other than the laughably irrelevant criticism of Trump’s use of verb tense, is there any presumed substance whatsoever in Will’s article? I can’t bear to read the whole thing.


63 posted on 05/08/2017 2:16:28 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Liz; GOPJ; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; PGalt; justiceseeker93; stephenjohnbanker; Jane Long; ...

I have despised George Will for over a quarter century. A man who sold his soul for many years to TV’s “This week” series.

Just a highly paid prostitute.

Can you look in the mirror, George ?


64 posted on 05/08/2017 2:17:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Bigg Red; Mouton

“Mind your language, please; there are ladies present.”

Oh no, don’t mind me! If he hadn’t said it I was going to!!!

- Megan


65 posted on 05/08/2017 2:19:23 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To paraphrase Mark Steyn recently sitting in for Rush: for a man who trades in words, George Will fails to understand Trump’s natural ability to communicate with his supporters.

Also disappointing that Will is mocking what he perceives to be a disability. Perhaps that’s how he makes a buck — mocking disabilities...


66 posted on 05/08/2017 2:19:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: EveningStar
In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump’s verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses...

Picky, picky.

I'm pretty sure the president knows Frederick Douglass isn't alive now.

Anyway, people were saying the same thing about Eisenhower's syntax, and Ike did fine.

In fact, there was a certain degree of strategy behind it: If liberals were criticizing Ike's language, they weren't making more substantive criticism and they were also alienating a large part of the population.

Eisenhower also used shaky syntax to get around the media and duck questions he didn't want to answer.

__________

Quote for the day: "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." -- Frederick Douglass

67 posted on 05/08/2017 2:21:22 PM PDT by x
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To: Gene Eric

Will’s time has past he just doesn’t know it!


68 posted on 05/08/2017 2:22:47 PM PDT by Reily
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To: EveningStar

Getting a paywall from WaPo, so no thanks. And I was sooooo looking forward to George’s wisdom.


69 posted on 05/08/2017 2:25:23 PM PDT by upchuck (Greed is a word leftists use to describe what conservatives call ambition. h/t Mike Rosen)
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To: pcottraux

George should be put in the same box of “used toys” with Beck. Both have lost their own minds because of their preoccupation with Trump hatred. The stuff that comes out of Will’s mouth just isn’t worth knowing anymore.


70 posted on 05/08/2017 2:29:53 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Trump may tease his hair—but he doesn’t wear an ugly WIG like Will does.


71 posted on 05/08/2017 2:30:48 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: EveningStar

I’m sure wIll gets around to using the word ‘mendacity’ at some point in his whiny article.


72 posted on 05/08/2017 2:31:33 PM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: EveningStar

When I hear statements like this I wonder what vocal coaches suggest they could improve the careers of Ricardo Montalban or Charo by Americanizing their speech.


73 posted on 05/08/2017 2:36:16 PM PDT by jimfree (My16 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Will will be remembered mostly for his bowtie, if at all.


I would bet on “...if at all.”

We live in a world where Vice Presidents are forgotten just a few years out of office, and even cabinet members are forgotten even if you knew who they were.

Newspaper columnist are even lower on the pecking order. A year after his death 90% of the people who currently recognize his name will have forgotten him. Ten years and I would say it would increase to 99%.

When it is all said and done, President Trump will be remembered, George Will be George Who.


74 posted on 05/08/2017 2:37:43 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: EveningStar

How many skyscrapers has Georgie Will built?


75 posted on 05/08/2017 2:39:14 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: MeganC

Well,I am a lady, and I don’t like being subjected to foul language.


76 posted on 05/08/2017 2:40:06 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Liz

Russian moles? I swear, this George Will mental crack up and Bill Krystol’s own bitterly emotional collapse certainly do the work of Russian goals for causing divisiveness and political warfare.


77 posted on 05/08/2017 2:41:46 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: EveningStar

Don’t need to pay any attention to this has been. His words are empty. Retire George. Go while you still have an ounce of dignity.


78 posted on 05/08/2017 2:42:25 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: EveningStar

DJT communicates in a manner that “real people” identify with. Imagine if he had spoken like George Will at his rallies. Boring an audience to death isn’t a good plan.


79 posted on 05/08/2017 2:43:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("If we cannot control our tempers, what has grace done for us?" Charles Spurgeon)
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To: EveningStar

I find it most amusing that George Will believes Donald Trump to be so stupid that he doesn’t even know to find out how stupid he is...

...yes, the same Donald Trump that became a multi-billionaire in a few decades, starting from a $1 million loan...

...and the same Donald Trump who became President a year and a half of being mocked (by the likes of Will) by the entire media/press corps, defeating both the entrenched Republican field and the darling of the Dems/Left (who had over $1 billion of financing and the unadulterated admiration of the entire media/press corps.

Yep, Georgy, you hit that one on the head...DJT is a certified moron. Geez, he’s only a multi-billionaire and the POTUS when he could have been a self-absorbed, self-worshipping, pontificating wind-bag like...Georgy. Wow, what a failure Trump is, what a waste of a life. Damn, George, you really hit that one out of the park - you putz.


80 posted on 05/08/2017 2:44:37 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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