GEORGE WILL IS NOW WHERE GEORGE WILL BELONGS

Mr. “Conservative” himself, George Will

I am no longer alone in recognizing that George Will is no longer the conservative he was before.

Have you noticed that the syndicated conservative columnist, George Will, seems to have slipped a few cogs over the past many months.  This is the man, that for years, was considered to be one of the few very reasonable conservatives and he was also stated as being exceptionally bright.

Well, as time has gone by, it has appeared that with age, Mr. Will’s super intelligence seems to be leaving him and is being replaced by some level of intellectual dementia.

Mr. Will had first received a great deal of criticism when he declared last year that individuals could contract the deadly Ebola disease through air-borne transmission.  Now, most of us that watch the news are aware that it has been proven, and stated time and time again, that Ebola can only be contracted through direct contact with an infected individual’s bodily fluids. But that’s not according to Mr. Will, who, by-the-way, has no medical credentials.

Obviously, I have always thought that Mr. Will’s conservative thinking was a-few-bricks-short-of-a-load, but now others that have respected Mr. Will are also starting to distance themselves from this conservative.

First, one of Mr. Will’s large and very loyal city newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has published Will’s column for a number of years, has had enough of Mr. Will.

 

In a recent message to their readers, the paper announced they were dropping George Will from their paper and they apologized for running his column on sexual assault in colleges.

Due to some of Mr. Will’s recent columns, this change at the Post-Dspatch had been under consideration for several months, but the column in which Mr. Will suggested that sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status, that made their decision final. 

The Washington Post had first published Will’s column that claimed that being a rape victim is now a “coveted status” that college women actually seek out. Will had argued that complaints of rape and sexual assault on college campus were well overblown. He also suggested that women claiming to be raped were “delusional.”

The column caused thousands of negative e-mails and Tweets, as it was so highly offensive to all women, especially the college coeds.  It was also very inaccurate and the Post-Dispatch felt they had to apologize for publishing it, which they did.

Mr. Will’s column will now be replaced at the Post-Dispatch by another syndicated Washington Post conservative columnist, Michael Gerson.

But this isn’t all that is going downhill with Mr. George Will.

Mr. Will had been a conservative commentator on ABC News for more than three decades.  But after a number of these kind of these faux pau’s, he is leaving for guess where?  Yep, Will is joining the other clowns at the Fox News Channel.

In its announcement, Fox News said Mr. Will, who is 72, would be added to the commentary panels on many of the network’s regular programs like the daily “Special Report With Bret Baier” and “Fox News Sunday,” its own political Sunday discussion show that tries (but fails) to successfully compete with the Sunday TV broadcast’s shows; Meet the Press and Face the Nation.

The reason that was given for the ABC shift was that the show’s host, George Stephanopoulos, who is also the anchor of the daily “Good Morning America,” which is broadcast weekday mornings from New York. “The travel [between Washington and New York] just became an issue for Mr. Will, but we honor [his] contributions to ABC News and we think the world of him.”  However, the back story has been that ABC News was ready for a change as Mr. Will is no longer considered as being the “reasonable conservative” that he was in the past.

Will’s columns are still syndicated in many newspapers across the country through the Washington Post, which had previously billed him as “the most influential [conservative] writer in America.” As stated, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had for years, published Will’s column, but after the college rape victim column, that was the final straw.

I have been saying something like this about George Will for years. 

Now, at least for his TV participation, Mr. Will, will now be on the network that he truly deserves.

Copyright G.Ater  2015