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George Will does great on Colbert

richard — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:30:18 +0000

George Will makes the extremely short list of guests who actually made a good give-and-take with Steven Colbert. The only others I’ve ever seen NOT be awkward and do a good job of pushing the shtick forward were James Carville, and O’Reilly (though for some reason Steven became the awkward one in O’Reilly’s presence and had more than a few moments go flat). I think there was one more but I can’t remember who it was.

Anyway, enjoy Will’s dry responses and deadpan humor as he allows Colbert to sum up conservatism as an untouchable freedom dome where you just put a bunch of things inside and let whatever happens happen – and if a turtle eats a fiddler crab, then by golly that was his choice (both of their choices presumably: the crab for choosing that environment and the turtle’s choice for expressing himself that way). sweet.

How Modern Liberals Think

richard — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:55:35 +0000

A speech full of astute observations on modern liberals.
The thesis: that it is through a passionate pursuit of utopianism that Liberals go so against established logical norms. That because none of these ideas, moral codes, philosophies, etc have worked in producing an ideal world, they must be rejected in favor of the ideas, codes and philosophies they compete against. They reject (what western society had previously established as) common sense and conventional wisdom precisely because they are common and conventional.
Evan Sayet was a writer for “The Arsenio Hall Show” and then the very first Creative Consultant on “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher”.

From March 5, 2007
Featuring: Evan Sayet. Writer, Lecturer and Pundit.
Hosted by: Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President, External Relations, The Heritage Foundation.