Oh wait, wasn’t that supposed to be the rap on Bill Clinton? George Stephanopoulos was supposed to be the true liberal believer, the progressive conscience of the administration, the last honest kid, or so he conjured himself in his book about his Clinton years.

The particular Sunday Gas Baggery which is emitted each week from ABC is almost worth imbibing to watch the spectacle of Lil’ George displaying his bad conscience. Oh, I know, he’s a journalist now. If only! Okay, maybe like Zelig, he is. Perhaps I’m being hard on the kid, but if anyone can supply me with evidence that George Stephanopoulos shows any sign of ever having believed deeply in anything beyond his own career advancement, about any aspect of politics, governance, or even journalism, I will be happy to reconsider.

Here’s the short version of this particular Sunday: Joe Biden was terrific, Richard Lugar, awful, pathetically so, Rep. Duncan Hunter was awful, but brilliantly so, no pathos there, thank-you, and don’t ever accuse ABC or George of not being receptive to the truest of rightwing believers, the Roundtable was awful in your basic every Sunday sense of being awful. And then there’s the truly awful Green Room, an on-line phenomenon I’ve ignored until this week’s This Week.  Read more 

George Will calls the new Democrat-led Congress more conservative than the one it replaces.

Hmm, is he right?

Consider first that Democrats are the coalition of the nuanced, which the media takes as license for two flip-flopping memes:

• The Democrats are following the country in its inexorable move to the right
• The Democrats are at least as bad as the Republicans as polarizing wackos, with a weary country wishing for a political middle-ground.

Both of these stories continue to be more appealing to the MSM than the one the American voter figured out after six years of outrageous malfeasance and a needless war that’s spiraling way the fuck out of control:

• One party has a lot of reasonable statesmen and -women; the other is full of incompetent, nest-feathering hypocrites.

Even Bush seems to understand this.  Read more 

Investigative reporter-cum-whore* Bob Woodward dances with Wolfowitzes for six years and finally figures out that Bush’s Iraq War is a clusterfuck.

And how does George Will respond to Woodward’s new book, State of Denial? Here’s a hint: it’s in the book’s title.  Read more 

From vastleft.com:

In George Will’s recent Newsweek column, he does little more than echo Shelby Steele’s controversial comments about race from his book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.  Read more