George Will on Obama speech: "I Don't Know When Men Started To Hug Each Other"

[Julius Civitatus]

Seriously. George Will, a living caricature of WASP conservative aloofness and detachment has the gall to complain about how other people "hug too much".

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200902240032

Will's "final thought" on Obama speech: "I don't know when men started to hug each other, but hug they do, and look at that"

Asked for a "final thought" on the president's speech last night, conservative columnist George WIll chose to focus on the fact that Obama was able to wrap his arms around another man, in friendship. "I don't know when men started to hug each other, but hug they do, and look at that," he said. Wise words. Watch:

http://mediamatters.org/static/video/embed/abc-20090224-will.flv

Where do people like George Will come from?

And when he complains about "men hugging too much", does he mean these people?

[AlCzervik]

1. Is Bush tasting the "product" off Karzai's shoulder?

lookss like a winnah, some good shit.

[flobee1]

23. I think its more like this

[Parche]

2. WHO.... would want to hug George Will?

:shrug: :rofl::hi:

[hatrack]

3. Well, I guess implying that we're all slip-sliding into the Homo Kingdom is what he's reduced to .

Poor Lil' George . . . nobody cares about Reagan anymore, nobody cares about Nancy, either, and flat-out bald-faced lies about global warming aren't enhancing his credibility.

Sounds like he's down to his last wank.

[yourout]

4. You owe me lunch.....I just lost mine.

:puke:

[geardaddy]

9. That would be a DUzy if we still had 'em.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Oooh, but we DO still have them. They're baaaaaack!

JeffR posted this last Friday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5100444

[MADem]

5. The man who knowingly coached Ronald Reagan with stolen debate materials.

What a dispicable creature.

He loves baseball, you know.

Some bastard with a baseball bat oughta try it out on him, the jerk.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. If you didn't live in Washington,

you might not remember a time back during the early years of the Reagan administration when George Will, that bow-tied paragon of virtue, got caught by his wife having an affair with some other woman. This was at a time when the Wills were also taking care of their special needs son, Down Syndrome, as I recall.

Mrs. Will threw his clothes out on the front lawn and refused to let him come into the house. Will send his staffers to get his belongings and slunk off to his girlfriend's house. I believe they're married now, and we might ask George Will when married men started dicking women they weren't married to? Was it around the same time that men started hugging men?

Tony Soprano might show George Will what a real hug is like.

[Captain Hilts]

20. And he bought a house with New Wife around the corner from Old Wife, right near me...

just South of the Chevy Chase Club barely over the DC/MD line into MD.

[MADem]

21. Ha, whadda BAAAASTID!!!! nt

[Captain Hilts]

28. Yes, he moved around tha connah with that little tat. nt

[MADem]

34. Bwahahahahahaha!!!! nt

[CTyankee]

41. Is that Lally Weymouth?

n/t

[Captain Hilts]

46. Okay, you win!

Now THAT's funny!

[MADem]

22. I was in Asia during much of Reagan--it made him easier to take.

We didn't have the internet back then!

Nowadays, you can't escape, no matter how far you travel!

[Captain Hilts]

26. I was in Toronto, which DIDN'T make it easier!!

[CTyankee]

33. Oh, I dearly love that story!

Altho I don't want to go near imagining what this guy must be like in bed...all white and shrunken I'll bet...heh.

[Captain Hilts]

37. Oh, GROOOOOSSSSSS!!!! Shit! He's in my 'hood! To wipe out THAT image...

I'll tell you that a friend and I went to the movies shortly after the '06 election, and who's walking out of the theatre next to us but Ken Mellman! I turn to him and say, "GREAT election!" He had no reaction.

Sometimes, it's good to live in this 'hood.

Formerly,
Mookie

[CTyankee]

43. Yep, nekkid and coming atcha....

now there's a thought...

[Captain Hilts]

48. Oh man, I wish I lived in New London again!

[izquierdista]

6. Since the days of black & white?

[seemslikeadream]

7. OMG

georgie was enjoying this WAY to much

[CTyankee]

36. where was his other hand going?

n/t

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

8. That middle one kind of looks like Bush is being attacked by a zombie.

Reproduced below:

[Renew Deal]

10. This is actually a great picture

Gotta love the sailors enthusiasm

[notadmblnd]

11. Obviousl he's never see McCain kissing Geedubya's ass

hell he couldn't have gotten any closer to the former decider with out having sex.

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Republican's are so secure in their sexuality that this kind of stuff

isn't mistaken for the limp wristed hugging the Democrats do.

[havocmom]

13. Will needs more hugs

But I draw a line at the hits I will take for the team.

[edbermac]

14. We're all a bunch of commie, homo-loving sons of guns!

Whadya expect, George?

[Lance_Boyle]

15. You know, I don't despise George Will.

All around, he's one of the least despicable right-wing droning heads in media, and on some issues (economics, chiefly), he's downright not-awful. But this comment sounds more Pat Buchanan than George Will. But which I mean slightly age-addled and out of touch with mainstream... humanity. I bet he used to shake his mother's hand goodnight.

[undeterred]

25. He actually thinks instead of just reacting.

And while I don't agree with him often, its hard to hate him. He's not stupid, and he's not easy to classify.

[CTyankee]

38. I dunno. He regularly gets mown down on Stephanopoulos' Sunday show by Krugman.

Will will say something he seems "definite" about with the economy and Krugman says "Actually, that's not true.." and goes on to demolish him. This happened several times last Sunday...it was like, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat...the guy never gets it. He's mouthing off about the economy with the winner of the NOBEL frikkin PRIZE in Economics, fer chrissakes. If I were him, I'd shut up.

[undeterred]

44. But at least he's not one of the Limbaugh talking points

guys. He's actually a conservative.

[Lex]

31. The Conservatives are so lost right now, they don't know what to say or do.

They are flailing around for anything in order to find a perch.

[BeyondGeography]

16. This is what they're left with

Your guys won, George. They killed the government. Now, even the average American concedes it needs to be rebuilt, and the snappy rejoinder is about all you have left to contribute.

Retire already.

[Karenina]

17. You forgot the one of *dimson and Prince Bandar smooching.

Anyone have it close at keyboard?

[keopeli]

19. This comment belies an intrensic homophobia. What a very sad comment by Will.

Of the myriad political topics from which he might choose to comment, he singles out the nascent development of affection between men in our society.

In many other cultures (Peru leaps to mind, as does many Latin American countries, as well as India and some middle eastern countries), men can be seen holding hands as they walk, kissing each other and displaying public affection between male friends.

Our culture thinks it's "gay" for men to show affection for other men, or at least it has. I'm so glad to see us start moving past the homophobic, machismo stoicism of our past.

I once visited with George Will at a dinner party. He's a very bright man, but he seems to me to have deep seeded (sic?) issues with liberals that goes beyond politics and into the personal. Still, among modern conservatives, he's far from the worst of his generation. As I recall, we only shook hands - no hugging was had.

I can only conclude that this comment was an effort to reinforce his bona fides with conservatives after excoriating Bush for his many bumbles and buffoonery. Will is a reflection of the wealthy industrialist wing of the Republic Party.

[GinaMaria]

24. That's the best he's got?

hugging? Tells me he really had to create something negative to say.

[rvablue]

27. Here's a photo of George Will with his arm wrapped around another man:

Just to show the man has done it himself.

The guy is such a dinosaur, it's embarrassing.

[CTyankee]

39. Oh, gawd!

I shouldn't have looked...:scared:

[bridgit]

29. Another idiot George, his greatest disservice is to American baseball; he knows so little...

about everything else they should stop paying him by the column inch cause 1.5" in and all we see is a mind spun from cotton candy

[Arkansas Granny]

30. Hmmmm. I wonder.

[foxfeet]

32. Hugging? Hell, George Will hasn't taken a deep BREATH since he was born.

Clench-ass.

[Politicalboi]

35. At least President Obama

Doesn't kiss bald headed men.

[Uncle Joe]

47. The only thing Bush needs here is a straw. n/t

[Beregond2]

40. When you come from a world of WASPs like George, hugging must seem very foreign.

If he had any Mediterranean in his background, it would be as natural as breathing.

[acmavm]

45. Maybe Will's problem is no one wants to touch him even with the

proverbial 10-foot pole.