Nixon's Vietnam Treason (George Will Confirms)

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99. George Will was a player in the October Surprise on Jimmy Carter...

George the Shill Will was working as a columnist for WaPo, Newsweek and ABC News. The talking turd of the BFEE also was working for the Ronald Pruneface Reagan and Poppy Bush campaign in 1980. The guy would write a piece or say some crack on TV and the people actually thought he was coming up with it himself. Funny thing. He was repeating what he had been paid to say. What's worse, Will and the Raygun-Poppy campaign stole Carter's debate book. Of course, Will, being a good Republican wasn't really punished professionally. He's stil around, whoring.

Triumph of (George) Will: When Media Might Makes Right

By Norman Solomon
March 8, 2001

A skeleton is rattling in George Will's closet. But it's difficult to hear above the steady applause from his elite boosters inside the media business. Widely viewed as one of the nation's most influential journalists, Will churns out syndicated columns that appear in hundreds of daily papers. He also writes for Newsweek. And he's a regular on ABC's "This Week." He is definitely outspoken -- but don't expect him to speak out about the fact that Juanita Yvette Lozano now faces up to 15 years in prison.

"A woman who worked for a media company that produced ads for President George W. Bush's campaign was indicted for secretly mailing a videotape of Bush practicing for a debate to Vice President Al Gore's campaign," an Associated Press story explained the other day. Accompanying the 60-minute video were about 120 pages of the Bush team's confidential material for debate preparation.

Ordinarily, such a transgression might cause Will to express his law-and-order zeal in no uncertain terms. But it's understandable that he isn't eager to weigh in when the subject is theft of debate prep documents. The circumstances of the incident last fall were far less egregious than what happened -- with Will's active participation -- in 1980.

Six months ago, when Gore campaign adviser Tom Downey received a package containing the Bush campaign material prior to the first debate, he immediately turned it over to the FBI. In sharp contrast, 20 years earlier, top operatives in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign pored through Jimmy Carter's lengthy briefing book swiped from the White House. Back then, behind the scenes, Will was part of the effort to make the most of the illegally obtained papers.

Will looked at the Carter briefing materials and then helped coach Reagan for a crucial debate with Carter. Promptly after the debate, Will went on "Nightline" to praise Reagan for a "thoroughbred performance." Viewers had no way to know of Will's involvement in prepping Reagan for the debate.

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http://fair.org/media-beat-column/triumph-of-george-will-when-media-might-makes-right/

He is a slimy bastard -- spherical, too.