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Things That Matter: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Krauthammer
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 6-22-18 | MOTUS

Posted on 06/22/2018 4:44:21 AM PDT by NOBO2012

Charles, on everything:

Stupidity:

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Youth:

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.'

Canadians:

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

America’s favorite pastime:

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Politics in America:

To understand the workings of American politics you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Obama:

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

One World Order:

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Liberals:

What’s the definition of a liberal? Someone who doesn’t care what you do as long as it’s mandatory.

The tyranny of the left:

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

Equality of opportunity v equality of outcome:

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Liberal Media:

Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

Pharmacology and Advertising:

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

Gun Control:

In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

Economics:

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

Great Leaders (which explains why Obama wasn’t)”

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

Multiculturalism:

History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

I could go on, but suffice to say the world is a little worse off today for the loss of another brilliant mind.

Besides, I see that the world of media has already moved on to obsess over the intent of Melania’s cloaked message:

DgQvkkDXUAAMu30Answer: No.

Posted from: MOTUS A.D.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: charleskrauthammer; melaniatrump; obama; tyranny

1 posted on 06/22/2018 4:44:21 AM PDT by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

Krauthammer was wrong as wrong could be about Presidemt Trump.. Sad. May he rest in peace.


2 posted on 06/22/2018 5:01:39 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I didn’t always agree with what he had to say, but I respected it was at least well thought out, logical in his own way, presented well. I could at least see where he was coming from and why. You can’t say that about a lot of the BS that makes it to the opinion page.


3 posted on 06/22/2018 5:09:14 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: NOBO2012
What’s the definition of a liberal? Someone who doesn’t care what you do as long as it’s mandatory.

Absolutely priceless!

4 posted on 06/22/2018 5:16:51 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Nobody’s right about everything.

I loved how he could deliver some of his real zingers in such a charming, deadpan way.


5 posted on 06/22/2018 5:21:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rjsimmon

Krauthammer nails it.


6 posted on 06/22/2018 5:23:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

“Krauthammer was wrong as wrong could be about Presidemt Trump.. Sad. May he rest in peace.”

Yeh, he never understood Trump nor the “Deplorables” that supports him. There are very three broad political strains in American politics; Liberal, Conservative and Establishment. Krauthammer was a member of the Establishment; skewed right of center. His sensibilities were offended by Trumps ineligent oratory, brashness, impatience and intolerance of bloaviators which populated the Washington Establishment. Anyway, God Bless Charles. He was a good man.


7 posted on 06/22/2018 5:26:35 AM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: NOBO2012

He wasn’t always right, but with his quick wit, he brought a lot of gallows humor to the miserable Hussein years.


8 posted on 06/22/2018 5:27:10 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: snoringbear

I admire Krauthammer’s can-do attitude about life, it is well worth emulating — he was incredibly brave and showed great character. As for his political opinions, he was often WAY off base, and all of this adulation baffles me. I think he was a great man, but not for his views. I have a political opinion, you have a political opinion, he had a political opinion...I’m getting a little weary of the brilliant intellect stuff.


9 posted on 06/22/2018 5:38:57 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: MountainWalker

I did not agree with Krauthammer on too many issues...but, Charles was a great American none the less. He was dead wrong on Trump.....but so was Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama & company. The difference is Krauthammer will go down in history as a great American commentator and Obama & Clinton will both have shameful legacies and criminal halos around their necks & over their heads. Satan awaits both of them...while Krauthammer will be greeted by droves of God’s Angels as he floats into the paradise of our Lord.

I did not agree with him in most cases...but, I loved him...he loved America and he loved baseball, Obama & Clinton loved neither!!! Only themselves!!!

Charles, old buddy “REST-IN-PEACE”...your heavenly Father adores you!!!


10 posted on 06/22/2018 5:41:52 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: NOBO2012
To understand the workings of American politics you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Liberals are STUPID
11 posted on 06/22/2018 5:47:43 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: uncbob

At least, our evil is well considered. Random, emotional
evil is mere brutish thuggery.


12 posted on 06/22/2018 6:03:41 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: uncbob
Liberals are STUPID

Bump to that!

13 posted on 06/22/2018 6:09:36 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: NOBO2012

I don’t know how many people could live with the paralysis he endured and keep on keeping on as he did. I hope he is relishing his release from that body now. Soar, Mr. Krauthammer!


14 posted on 06/22/2018 6:31:54 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
If Krauthammer didn't believe in God how will droves of angles carry him into heaven?
15 posted on 06/22/2018 6:59:26 AM PDT by JonPreston
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4+ straight hours, possibly more, on Krauthammer on Fox.
The news is not about news personalities!
They are not the story.


16 posted on 06/22/2018 7:17:41 AM PDT by RBStealth
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To: NOBO2012
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.

He must have forgotten about Billy Martin.

Mark

17 posted on 06/22/2018 4:08:58 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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