Has anyone else noticed ...

[JoePhilly]

3. YUp ... I've posted on this before ...

At my house we treat it like a drinking game ... how many times will George Will take some minor historical event and then bend it to support some position he is trying to reinforce.

Its a tactic he uses to prevent anyone from being able to question it because the event is always a quasi-random minor event that no one would have sufficient background on right at the instant he says it. So his point usually gets to stand unquestioned.

The best response to it goes like this ... "It would be interesting for us to debate the impact of random thing X that happened back in 1936, but it's more instructive to focus on present day events such as A, B, and C ... ".

Donna does a pretty good job side stepping his nonsense, Paul Krugman also usually eats Will alive.

My favorite panels are those which include both Will and Peggy Noonan. Their competition to determine which is the most pompous and condescending panelist is always a good time. We try to count how many times she (a) makes a face that looks like she's really listening closely, when she clearly isn't ... (b) how many times she scrunches her face up as if she's trying to determine who just farted ... and (c) how many times she sighs in an exasperated way.

Other than this kind of stuff ... the Sunday shows have become useless.