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Who Is Charles Krauthammer ?
Pajamas Media ^ | January 29, 2011 | David Solway

Posted on 01/29/2011 4:53:09 AM PST by RobinMasters

There's something cryptic and elusive about Krauthammer, like the coy Waldo in the famous puzzle. (And don't miss Steve Green on "Krauthammer Correcting Krauthammer." )

Charles Krauthammer has long been recognized as one of America’s most astute and authoritative political columnists, acknowledged as a cut above the majority of his scrivening colleagues. And yet there is something cryptic and elusive about him, like the coy Waldo in the famous puzzle. Perhaps he resents being put in boxes and wishes to preserve his independence of judgment, or his unpredictability.

Still, one detects a growing tendency to pronounce upon critical affairs without sufficient grounding in the penetralia of things along with a positional inconsistency that renders him at times maddeningly unlocatable, like a slippery electron in a split-screen experiment.

In other words, it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine where he can be reliably found on the ideological scale. Is he a conservative, a centrist, a “situational libertarian,” or all of these at different times? Is he a fiscal conservative like Terry Corcoran and, simultaneously, a social liberal like Alan Dershowitz? He is certainly far to the right of the New York Times, as any thinking person must be, but then he writes for the ultra-liberal Washington Post. Does he share a secret sympathy with choice portions of its editorial line or is he the paper’s resident conservative, whose purpose is to impart a semblance of impartiality?

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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

It’s not my fault he acts like a cold Freudian who secretly suspects Sarah suffers from penis envy. Perhaps before his accident he was a wild and crazy guy, who knows?

And if I can’t do personal insults on FR, where, O Lord, where?


101 posted on 01/29/2011 9:59:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: RobinMasters
"Still, one detects a growing tendency to pronounce upon critical affairs without sufficient grounding in the penetralia of things along with a positional inconsistency that renders him at times maddenly unlocatable, like a slippery electron in a split-screen experiment."

This has got to be the next winner in the annual Bulwar-Lytton Contest for worst sentences in a literary effort.

The first winner was from an 1830 novel:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies) rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamp that struggled against the darkness."

Leni

102 posted on 01/29/2011 10:08:09 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: miss marmelstein

yeah, you are free to be stupid on freepr....and show ignorance about psychiatry, therapy and lots else.

personal insults must be as far as you can get in political discourse, but then, its a free country.


103 posted on 01/29/2011 10:57:48 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: RobinMasters

Charles Krauthammer is the guy who stabbed Christine O’Donnell in the back.


104 posted on 01/29/2011 10:58:57 AM PST by Walts Ice Pick ("I'm not going to shut up!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Travis McGee

Good luck...anyone who dare have the slightest criticism of one of the Holy Ones on Freep, Like Sarah..must be insulted, misquoted and dismissed from the whole conservative movement!

How juvenile.


105 posted on 01/29/2011 11:01:11 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Stentor
True, if you're campaigning to win the support of execrable dopes.

Well....

106 posted on 01/29/2011 11:02:53 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( T.G., global warming denier.)
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To: chickadee

Well, you use the exact same illogical and poor behaviors. You might as well just go over to Daily KOs to run your rants about CK...They would love you there...AND understand you better.


107 posted on 01/29/2011 11:03:35 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
If we’re very blessed she will revert to bubbly in the early election night victory speech. Libs will rend their garments. :D

Won't that be fun?

Would love to see her wipe the floor with Obama in a debate, no teleprompter assistance for him... just "mmm.... uh ...uh.... let me be clear..... uuuh, umm... "

108 posted on 01/29/2011 11:05:59 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( T.G., global warming denier.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Hey, you just insulted me - you’re no monument to civility, either.


109 posted on 01/29/2011 11:17:47 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Are you certain he’s had a “nose job”? He was paralyzed in a diving accident. Perhaps he injured it then.


110 posted on 01/29/2011 11:23:31 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

You might be right. It’s definitely been worked on though.


111 posted on 01/29/2011 11:32:21 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

If someone worked on it, I hope they didn’t accept payment. :)


112 posted on 01/29/2011 11:35:27 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: beebuster2000
what a bizarre article, first, yes, "penetralia".

penetralia

113 posted on 01/29/2011 11:42:45 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: MinuteGal
I too recall some heated threads about Sara and suggestions that she get a speech coach to help her modulate her voice pitch. Constructive criticism can be crucial for political aspirants. We want Sarah to have the benefit of such criticism or comment from people who care about her success and wish her well. We are not Kati Courics looking for a gotcha moment. Not looking for perfection in any candidate either. Some things are just obvious and why this critique is hot button eludes me. Public figures are known for adapting to the realities of public perception. Everything from surgery to speech coaching to anything else that appears to be a hindrance to their success. We are lucky that Sarah has so much going for her already and can, with admittedly some rather hard work, succeed in this one area of voice modulation. If I were on her staff I would pay as much attention to those supporters who have criticisms, valid or not, as to those who do not.
114 posted on 01/29/2011 12:26:22 PM PST by mountainfolk (God Bless the United States of America)
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To: miss marmelstein

Nope...Stupid in the context I used it is not an insult, but a description of you (ie, you are blonde, you are thin, etc).

I described your behavior, which is stupid , ie “illogical, ignorant of the facts; unable to form connections in cognitive processing.”.....
ie...’stupid”.

Perhaps if you would read more and educate yourself than you would not be “stupid”.


115 posted on 01/29/2011 12:30:45 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; tarheelswamprat

Our RKBA is a pass/fail litmus test for me. If some elite pundit opines that we need to be slowly weaned of our firearms, by stealth, I put him on the other side of the great debate from me. No matter what else we may agree about. If CK doesn’t get that our RKBA is ultimately what will prevent us from being driven into some new Dachau, then I cannot respect him, period.


116 posted on 01/29/2011 1:07:42 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: RobinMasters

Who Is Charles Krauthammer ?

An Obama voter.


117 posted on 01/29/2011 1:15:26 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

And perhaps you should return to the commune to discover your inner rudeness.


118 posted on 01/29/2011 1:21:52 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Once again you display your ignorance and inability to carry on with an argument..actually you just degenerate in your responses each time to a lower level of “stupidity”, ie, a behavior of not being the intellectual baseline required.

wow, your response was sooooo original too. did you think that all by yourself now that you feel the ignomy of your intellectual defeat?


119 posted on 01/29/2011 2:28:37 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: tarheelswamprat

I have not found any response to how CK feels now about gun control....That was 1996...

It s not fair to quote someone back then and never have a citing where he actually NOW says, “Yeah, I still believe that.”


120 posted on 01/29/2011 2:34:31 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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