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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

Oh, go away, before someone drops a house on you.


121 posted on 01/29/2011 3:14:27 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

boring.


122 posted on 01/29/2011 4:01:20 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: All

Many of you posting here are monumentally ignorant.


123 posted on 01/29/2011 5:43:49 PM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: miss marmelstein
...the Divine Sarah.

Are you saying Sarah Palin is God-like?

124 posted on 01/29/2011 5:47:15 PM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: RobinMasters

Who wrote this drivel?


125 posted on 01/29/2011 7:37:33 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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Who wrote this drivel?

Some idiot who doesn't think 95% agreement is enough.

126 posted on 01/29/2011 9:54:21 PM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

Don’t be silly. Sarah Bernhardt, the great French actress, was called the Divine Sarah. I have simply renamed Sarah Palin the Divine Sarah to honor the original Sarah and heap loving praise on the new Sarah. No blasphemy - just a little bit of theatre history.


127 posted on 01/30/2011 4:16:57 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein
I didn't realize that.

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128 posted on 01/30/2011 10:02:51 AM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

As a lapsed Catholic, I’m not too crazy about your graphic.

More info: my husband says that singer Sarah Vaughn was also called the Divine Sarah.


129 posted on 01/30/2011 11:17:03 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Valpal1

bookmark


130 posted on 02/04/2011 6:08:41 PM PST by Valpal1 ("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
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