Gore Vidal, requiescat in pace ...

[malignd at aol.com]

Friedman isn't loathsome, exactly; more ... smarmy and smug and irritating.  I don't think either need to be taken seriously, although I think Friedman is more often worth reading.  He does make an effort to cover his beat.  Will's a bloviating turd.

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.  




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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.



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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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