Impossible. I just can’t see George Will sitting on the fence.

MB4 on June 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM

I got the impression that he isn’t sitting on the fence, and instead, he’s firmly decided he doesn’t know.

Exit question: George Will is an agnostic? Good, er, lord.

George Will once wrote a column that sounded like a page out of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It was a sort of meditation on the empty sky.

Colbert is too self-aware and arch for me. It’s like he’s onstage, winking at himself in a mirror, saying, “Gosh, I’m clever! I’m so clever!” And then he turns to the audience and asks, “Aren’t I clever?” over and over.

Lurking Vet on June 4, 2008 at 9:48 PM

That’s his schtick.

Conservative Lion, George Will, enters the liberal Colbert Den, with surprising results: One thing I would like to say is that whilst Will is right about freedom, humanity being hewn of crooked timber and whilst his delivery is decisive and…

I think there are two kinds of conservatives:

> Optimists like RWR who know deep down that most people are good, God is love, and America is the greatest realization of idealism that the world has yet witnessed.

> Pessimists like George who think that people are “crooked timber” and conservatism is the lesser evil, because liberalism is so stupid. “Deliver the mail, protect the border…” sounds good at first. But it is a soulless, simplistic summation of conservatism. The whole terrarium analogy was pointless and too simple; should’ve been dispensed with.

I wish there were more of the former and fewer of the latter. George is smart. However, his gifts are scholarly knowledge, history and analysis, but not perspective and wisdom. RWR and Will are two very different conservatives. Will promotes himself and sells his books. RWR won converts.

The liberal position is that the playing field can’t be fair, so the government needs to step in and even out the results

You know, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I heard Will explain how the Dem Primary got to where it was–they want everything to be fair. So they get the Superdelagates, and oh, let’s split the delegates on voting lines, cos’ that would be fair, and now they had gotten to a point where they “evened everything out” in the sake of “fairness” they faired themselves right into a tie with few options to get out of it.

I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere….

Republicans dig it when poor people become rich especially when it is through their own hard work or ingenuity.

A fair playing field lets one team stomp the other 45 to 0, if that team is good enough. The liberal version is to handicap the team that’s winning by awarding points to the losers until they catch up.

To be fair, it’s extremely difficult to catch and correct all this on a show like Colbert’s, which frankly is about entertainment above enlightenment. (Being on the Comedy Channel is one clue…) George Will still did a very impressive job.

Impossible. I just can’t see George Will sitting on the fence.

MB4 on June 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM

Oh don’t worry MB4, I imagine he has plenty of good anecdotes you can quote in random discussions loosely related to religious figures/events.

George Will ran him over and turned onto another street before Colbert even saw the headlights coming his way.

Impossible. I just can’t see George Will sitting on the fence.

MB4 on June 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM

I think you’re right. His brain is too large for Colbert, he quickly ran Colbert’s train off the rails with a flick of his finger.

He has a book to sell, with big brain ideas in it. He wasn’t about to let a pipsqueak lead him down that path, in front of that audience.

An orange bracelet can indicate Autism awareness or Asperger’s Syndrome. Some Aspies wear them to recognize each other.

George Will is WAY funnier than Colbert.

My collie says:

**PAWNED**
CyberCipher on June 4, 2008 at 6:48 PM

Your collie and I agree. WOOF!

I don’t think that Colbert even knew that he was bested.

Exit question: George Will is an agnostic?

Impossible. I just can’t see George Will sitting on the fence.

That makes me feel so much better after this morning’s … unpleasantness.

I missed something…..what are you refering to?

George Will earns a mighty tip o’the hat!