Anyone ever make it through a column written by George Will?

[Cyrano]

I'll often read columns written by conservatives on the principle that it's good to know what the enemy's up to. I've rarely found anything in such columns with which I can agree, and I've often ended up ranting and throwing the paper across the room.

But George Will is a different story. I've occasionally started reading one of his columns and, assuming I can get halfway through, I realize that I have no idea what I've just read.

I've also noticed that something similar happens on Sunday morning's "This Week ..." show. Will starts talking, I see his lips moving, I hear english language words coming out of his mouth, but I have no idea what he's saying.

Anybody else have this problem, or do I have a rare case of George Will Attention Deficit Disorder?

[gunsaximbo]

1. never, ever have I made it through one if IT'S columns.

He bores the hell out of me.

[NanceGreggs]

2. There's only ONE I actually made it through ...

... which prompted a rather ANGRY response:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2478215&mesg_id=2478215

But I can tell you it wasn't EASY. I had to re-read several paragraphs more than THREE times just to try and make sense out of what I THINK he was getting at.

And you're so right - he's on-air rhetoric is even more convoluted than his writing!

[Richard Steele]

3. I vaguely recall some sort of Baseball metaphor....

Nope, it's gone. Never mind.

[geckosfeet]

4. Why on earth would you even want to? Its like eating cardboard

at a funeral.

[applegrove]

5. My first was the one where he claims repukes are happier than

Liberals. And that southerners are happier than northerners. Were not southerners democratic for a little while there?

[burythehatchet]

6. nope

[The Traveler]

7. Yes. Can't recomend it.

It makes no more sense when you struggle through to the end. I used to try logic diagrams ... but they always wound up looking like spaghetti or running circular.

[Synnical]

8. No, not so much

He's a great writer. I try, but, no - I've never been able to read a full column.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Charles Krauthammer is the worst read of all, it just seems like he's more

and more of a bitter withered old man with each passing year, that's how it seems to me anyway. Just pure PNAC venom.