Posted on 11/02/2016 11:51:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: We've got George Will. I cannot tell you how this disappoints me. George Will -- way back, long ago when I was still spinning records as a disc jockey -- was an idol of mine. I remember I met George Will in Dallas in 1992, Republican convention. I was there, having been sent there by a radio station in Kansas City that wanted to get me out of town.
So they sent me down to Dallas and said, "Go down there and prepare commentaries and then send 'em back. We might air them and we might not." And when I was there one night at the convention I went to the basement of the hall where all the network trailers and trucks were, and I sought out the ABC truck, 'cause I just wanted to introduce myself to George Will. And I did. I found him, introduced myself to him, and I explained to him how much I admired his work and how his work had inspired me to want to get better at what I do.
And now George Will said on TV last night that he hopes for a Hillary Clinton landslide, because a Hillary Clinton landslide will emancipate the Republican Party from talk radio. A Hillary Clinton landslide. I can't tell you how devastating that is, but he said it. We've got the sound bite.
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RUSH: Okay, I want to conclude this George Will story 'cause there's a lesson here. Just to repeat, George Will has been one of my heroes. He was, along with Mr. Buckley, one of my conservative idols from I don't know how long ago, and I found a way to introduce myself to him in Houston. Houston or Dallas, whatever it was. Wherever the Republican convention was in '92. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No! I'm sorry, it was Houston. It was Dallas in '84. Dallas in '84. That's when it was.
I had not yet gone... Dallas in '84. It was the-second term convention for Ronald Reagan, and I scoured the basement of the convention hall there to meet George Will. I hung around outside the ABC trailer and I told him how much I admired his work and so forth, and then when I went to Washington to do a program for a series of programs for a week in the mid-eighties, I asked George Will if he'd be a guest.
I sent him... He was a baseball fan, and I sent him a suitcase that had been used by George Brett during a record season of 2010 as a souvenir, and he came out and we talked. I haven't spoken to him much in recent years. But he was on Fox... I take it back. On the ABC News website Powerhouse Politics, Jonathan Karl was speaking to George Will, and here he openly talks about this election and expresses his desire for a landslide Hillary victory.
WILL: It depends partly on the size of Mr. Trump's defeat. If it's a narrow defeat, that's the worst (snickers) conceivable outcome for Republicans, because then it will be the old stab-in-the-back theory, that but for people like Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse or lesser figures like George Will, all would have been well. Mrs. Clinton may win by four points, but well over 300 electoral votes. That would help the Republicans. The Republican Party has to do several things. First, it has to somehow emancipate itself from its thralldom to the indignation industry of talk radio and certain cable personalities that I think have a paralyzing effect on the party when it tries to deal with things like immigration. Until the Republican Party gets right with minorities in this country, it's never gonna win another presidential election.
RUSH: Well, that's very... (sigh) Look, I know the civil war is coming, and I know that no matter what happens -- we win, you lose -- I'm gonna get the blame by somebody. But I think somebody needs to tell George Will it's not talk radio anywhere. You look at Facebook and Twitter, people are not saying, "Hey, Rush Limbaugh says..." They think it themselves now. They don't need talk radio for guidance on what to think. It's easy to spot Democrat destruction, and people don't want any more of it!
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I used to like George Will.
Another moron who thinks republicans can successfully pander to low information voters the same way democrats do.
“We’ve got George Will. I cannot tell you how this disappoints me. George Will — way back, long ago when I was still spinning records as a disc jockey — was an idol of mine.... I can’t tell you how devastating that is, but he said it.”
Rush Limbaugh remains a sycophant to the Elitist Establishment. He also refuses to call James Comey - who has helped cover up one scandal after another for the Clintons going back twenty years, but threw the book at Martha Stewart - the de facto traitor that he is.
George Will is such a Brie eating, elbow patch & tweed wearing, Nancy boy he makes me gag. How does he presume to speak for the great Bill Buckley, as if he were the heir to intellectual conservatism. Hey George, there are rough and tumble Conservatives-a-Plenty who wear blue jeans, or olive drab, hard hats, in semi trucks, welding shops, and yes, may even quaff a beer or two. What a pretentious, condescending prig! I would never emanantize the eschaton and I’d still kick YOUR bony little snob ass. HILLARY? Really? What a dope.
George Will is the quintessential effete snob.
George is an atheist who worships his own magnificence.
George Will has a grudge against talk radio when it usurped him as a newspaper columnist.
George Will - another media dinosaur sinking into the tarpit. Ten years from today, nobody will remember his name.
I was surprised to hear Rush’s admiration for George Will. I remember Will talking during the Clinton impeachment trial. It was pretty easy to tell he was a closet Rino or Democrat. Still is.
I think it’s Will seeking to stay in the good graces of his ABC colleagues. He doesn’t want them to think he is “biased.” And he probably like party invitations in D.C.
Will is 75.
Let’s make George Will a nobody Again...to paraphrase Trump...
This schmuck was never a big fan of Reagan. He opposed Reagan’s runs for POTUS in 1976 and 1980. Will prefered stalwart elites like Howard Baker and George HW Bush.
Jeffrey Lord’s 2015 CR article gives a good baxkground on Will.
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/08/george-will-and-the-gop-divide
Wow, disgusting. Go to the devil, George.
“. I cannot tell you how this disappoints me.”
Rush is a slow learner. George Will wasn’t even supporting Reagan back in 1980- he was a Howard Baker establishment toadie IIRC.
Rush has the habit of gushing over GOP hacks who pose as conservatives. Some, like Krauthammer, worked for the other side.
You had the chance to throttle him and....
"It is worth recalling here that once upon a time George Will was as down on Ronald Reagan as he is now on Donald Trump – and has been in the past on Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In a November 12, 1974 column appearing in the Washington Post on a potential 1976 challenge by Reagan to incumbent Establishment GOP President Gerald Ford, (titled “Ronald Reagan, the GOP and ’76”), Will wrote of Reagan:
'But Reagan is 63 and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray. But around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. He’s never demonstrated substantial national appeal, his hard core support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And there’s a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a Democratic landslide. If a Reagan third party would just lead the ‘Nixon was lynched’ crowd away from the Republican Party and into outer darkness where there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, it might be at worst a mixed course for the Republican Party. It would cost the party some support, but it would make the party seem cleansed.'
"Four years later, Will’s first and second choices for the 1980 GOP nomination were Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and George H. W. Bush..
“In every town large enough to house a college there is a faculty lounge at the back of which sits the local George Will, nursing his ever-present pipe and innumerable elitist delusions.
“Because the actual George Will is a syndicated columnist, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly sniffy public preacher. It is his right to use his considerable intelligence as he pleases. His supercilious performance and its haughty disdain of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.”
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/08/george-will-and-the-gop-divide
Early onset dementia..?
best laugh of the day.
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