George Will | Charlie Rose
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- Columnist George Will has been observing and writing about America for almost 40 years. He has just published his eighth collection of his essays. In a wide-ranging conversation with him, he talked about China, Iran, America's resilience, the presidential campaign and how he changed his views about Iraq.
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George Will | Charlie Rose
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I could listen to Mr. Will for hours. This is some wize men left.
Amen! I am a long-time liberal and will listen to anything George Will has to say. Trmendous intellect - unlike many on both the Right and Left today.
I really like George Will though I am not a conservative by any means. I wish he were on Charlie Rose more often. The man has something to say.
i'm a ferocious liberal and i also like george will. he's thoughtful, civil, and sincere and the right needs a million more like him, and a million less like sarah palin.
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Most of the time I don't even agree with him but I think he is a genius!
Will is one of the great commentators of our time. And his hair is real, doubtful he has a comb-over.
I hope every conservative on the planet heeds at least some of this man's wise words.
i didnt mean to give you a thumbsdown...i clicked the wrong button...i know why you like him...he is a realist...he understands peoples reasonings and motivations...it sounds like you do as well
With Russert sadly gone, Will is the most competent man left on Sunday mornings.
I'm a pretty liberal guy, but I can definitely respect George Will.
I'm a liberal, but I like George Will. He's so intelligent, and I agree with about everything he said, except when he implied that the US economic prosperity has lifted all boats equally. It's true that we are often too whiney (myself definitely included). But by that same token, that doesn't mean that every who complains has no legitimate gripe -- many do, such as the underclass who get poor schools generationally, those who through no fault of their own born into poverty which perpetuates.
Here's what the numbers say about percentage gains in after-tax income from 2003 to 2005:
Bottom quintile: 2%
Next quintile: 2.4%
Middle quintile: 3.9%
Fourth quintile: 3.7%
Top quintile: 16%
Top 10%: 20.9%
Top 5%: 27.7%
Top 1%: 43.5%
- Paul Krugman
The book The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes challenges the traditional view that FDR "saved" the American economy in the 1930's. You can agree or disagree, but she makes a great case that he was not a good manager of the U.S. economy, though he was a great wartime president.
Of course those of us in the top income levels should pay a greater share. This country has served us quite well and provided a life not possible anywhere else. Why do we need to take a larger slice of the pie than ever before?
In the 50s and 60s, the middle class was strong, America was still the world's "shining beacon of Freedom", and income over $400k was taxed at 91%.
Today, when it costs over $50 mil to win a Senate seat, voters ain't the constituents, it's socialism for the rich.
Its refreshing to see people that share the same views of Mike Huckabee that I do. There are many candidates that I'm simply sick of hearing about.
Just like a great musical artist, he is not after popularity, he is into learning and thinking. Hannity is silly but he is after the buck.
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The Saturday Night Live Weekend Update reported that erecting windmills across the United States would be a very good energy strategy because domestic windmills would greatly reduce our energy dependence on FOREIGN wind (as opposed to foreign oil).
LOL
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This is the kind of person the political right should embrace instead of the Hannity's and O'reilly's of the world.
I want politicians like George Will. He is so intelligent. People like Hannity, Beck, and many progressives are so annoying. They have a few talking points that they recite over and over. George Will thinks. You can tell he thinks and reads by hearing him talk. Beck and Hannity say they read 3-5 books every week. I seriously doubt that.
@TheMikeBuck
Great list, don't forget Ann Coulter, Donald Rumsfeld, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Mark Gafney, Olympia Snowe, and many more.
I respect George Will's opinion, but I think the American people are far more moderate than he gives them credit for. Despite his rosy view of the Bush economy, there is real pain felt by the many left behind in debt and record prices. And despite his assumed anti-trade overreaction, the american people know the value of free trade but also believe in moderation. Doom-and-gloom conservatives who preach the end will come every-time a democrat holds office should give moderation a chance.
wow, well played. with comebacks like that you should be bush's press secretary
Amen to that!!!
Deb- Why the pressing need to reduce taxes for our top 1% when our deficits are massive, our infrastructure crumbles, and our industrial might evaporates? Is it fair that our grandkids must pay for our war?
We should return to 1980s rates. And short-term capital gains should be taxed like payroll. Now, an oil speculator pays 15% and a fireman 30%.
I'll concede that taxes play a small role in our upward income redistribution spiral. Our "elected by K-Street" govt is the #1 problem.
I'm looking for that George Will video from 1990 where he scoffs that the comment from a black historian that Bach and Beetoven were really black people and not white.
Nubbs will probably never be invited onto The Charlie Rose Show to pontificate on the important matters in life but he is more than qualified to sit in on Keith Olbermann's show. Or Al Franken's, if Franken goes back to doing radio.
john mcsame 2008: "100 more years in iraq" ; "i don't understand economics" ; "what savings and loan scandal?"
nakedbison69: "nakdebison69 likes to imagine himself in a 69 with a bison while referring to himself in the third person"
I meant to say "Nor are Phyllis Schlafly and Doug McIntyre, among others."
Word to the wise: To take stats from Krugman and accept them as true and factual is more than naive. The truth is usually a casualty with Krugman.
John McSame 08: more war, less jobs.
Still waiting for George to run for high office. His verbal genius (still strictly verbal after so many years) might actually translate into many many workable successful policies. You're not getting any younger, George ... let's go.
@Clemburke1111 Yes, I suppose George's Will should wear a mustache. Thank you. I'd never considered that thought, and new thoughts are a great gift.
People like realveive do not understand market capitalism. Without that basic understanding, there can be no proper discussion.
I can answer George's question. I lived in China for three years. Indeed, I saw Miltonian free market capitalism at its best. But the gov't retained power. I agree we should double down on the tactic. But the rich Chinese (and I knew some of them) are leaving the country.
@levar1979
like something out of one of his movies.
Now that I look at the list more carefully, you're actually right XD
Especially Ted Haggard, what a hypocrite.
LOL, that's OK. I do that a lot too -- click on the thumbs down by mistake! I think it's because it's closer to the number = bad user design. :)
Wow
if you cry havok long enough you might be right eventually
everyone knew there was a housing bubble it was just a matter of when and how fast it would burst
Did you factor in benefits which have been rising? Are you measuring the individual and not the "family" income? Are you including increases in technology and industry? We have a vaccine for cervical cancer, we have faster internet service, better cell phones, etc.
I've never supported Ron Paul.
i've never understood why this guy's opinion is of any value to anyone
and who, exactly, does he think he's fooling with that wig?
Hmm, smear the messenger, you must be republican. The WSJ also reported on this IRS data under the headline "Income-Inequality Gap Widens":
"The wealthiest 1% of Americans earned 21.2% of all income in 2005, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service. That is up sharply from 19% in 2004... academic research suggests the rich last had this high a share of total income in the 1920s."
Meanwhile, "The median tax filer's income... fell 2% between 2000 and 2005".
Of course we have "income inequality" and the gap has grown. It's likely to keep growing. In a capitalist, free enterprise system such as ours that's the tendenacy. This ain't the USSR.
Meanwhile the richest 1% pay 39% of all income taxes, the top 5% pay 50% and the top 10% pay 70% of all income taxes. Lemme guess - you're one of those "soak the rich" types who wants to 'equalise'.
i know you are but what am i
Wow, funny that there are so many post on here praising George Will when every prediction he made was flat wrong. Woops!
the key point: CR: Do you think for all of our economic success, there have been too many people who have not participated in that success"
GW: No. I think our pain threshhold has become so low we're the crybabies of the western world.
Why do Republicans refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of poverty in America. Things are pretty desperate out there. Child poverty rose significantly in the Bush years. George Will is out of touch.
what are you, his wife? and my opinion, apparently, was of enough worth to YOU to merit a response.
ps. what wig (one could actually argue he's sporting a comb over, not a wig)?
and is that the best defense of will's eminent opining that you can muster?
but im sure he appreciates some high school kid who thinks the number 69 is hilarious sticking up for him.
"The crybabies of the western world". Yep, that's us. HaHa!!!
actually, under nakedbison69, america has experience the worst economy is all of world history, ever.
ps doesnt china have a largest growth rate in all of world history ever?
and what's the american nation debt up to these days?
if it means that like scott mcclelland you end up seeing there error of your ways, sure.
besides, the only qualifications seem to be an ability to reguritate talking points like a mindless fool, a quality you have in abundance.
although im not sure many republicans, what with their family values and all, would appreciate nakedbison69's bestiality references.
or, for that matter, his bizarre need to address himself in the third person.
if by great sense of humor you are refering to your statement that fdr prolonged the republican created depression by 20 years, sure
this video sure is dated. i'm sure you could find condescension with liberals and conservatives and anyone else. i don't think of liberalism as inherently condescending.
George Will discusses rationality, principles, and reality in jan helfeld you tube interview. Is it always good to be rational? Arguing that it is not, Will ends up on the side of Marx and Hegel claiming that reality itself is contradictory.
@RavingDissension Quite succinctly George Will is out of touch with the common working American. Growth is significantly better under President Obama, but at what cost? A healthy economy revolves around money shifting back and forth between the entrepreneur class and labor, but the Bush tax cuts have removed any incentive to re-capitalize businesses. Why grow a business when there is an oligarchy of corporations and no competition? The stimulus should have been financed with taxes not borrowing.
um, where, exactly, are the facts in your argument? FDR prolonged the depression by 20 years? right. i look forward to these "facts"
keep reading will genius.
i know you are but what am i.
you really do argue in the vain of george will.
"The economy is not in terrible shape". Not a very credible commentator!
He was wrong.
nakedbison69 is boring
No I'm not. I'm still a handsome progressive! lol.
ron paul lost. badly. get over it.
booring
i know you are but what am i