Gore Vidal, requiescat in pace ...

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Those two are totally different animals.  You sort of have to take Will
seriously, if you ever should read him, kind of like you have to Friedman
(foreign policy-wise the two are basically identical), they're specific
beasts.  The Sociologist, he simply makes grotesque generalizations about
things, divides them into two groups, and labels one Republican-trending
and one Democrat-trending.  That's his job at the Times, that's what they
pay him to do so he does it.  I have no doubt he was doing it before the
Times, but he also does it for the Times, which is when people started
paying him any attention.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> I do, however, not find Brooks quite so loathsome as Will, who makes my
> skin crawl.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
> Cc: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>; malignd <
> malignd at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Aug 2, 2012 8:30 am
> Subject: Re: Gore Vidal, requiescat in pace ...
>
>  Both men are hacks, purveyors of lies in support of the unsupportable.
>  Not intellectuals because lies are the opposite of intellect.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> > George F. Will, David Brooks
>
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