George Will

Laura Ingraham on Immigration Reform: ‘There Is No Will To Enforce The Border’
By Jeffrey Meyer | February 9, 2014 | 3:21 PM EST

In something rarely seen on ABC, NBC, or CBS, two prominent conservative commentators, Laura Ingraham and George Will, appeared on Fox News Sunday on February 9th to discuss the future of the Republican Party as it related to immigration reform.

Appearing alongside panelists Juan Williams and Julie Pace of the Associated Press, Ingraham argued that, “The middle ground on immigration I think is enforcement. Right now we're not really enforcing our laws uniformly. The president as John Boehner just realized apparently is not trustworthy.”

George Will: Obama Knows He Has Media Covering for Him on IRS
By Brent Baker | February 4, 2014 | 5:26 AM EST

George Will zinged the media’s duplicity in how they have approached the IRS scandal versus past major scandals when a Republican was President, a lack of interest President Obama recognizes and, “hence, his sense of weariness and boredom as he discussed this with Bill O’Reilly.”
 
Will, on Bret Baier’s FNC panel Monday night, recalled “three big” scandals “regarding the distortion and abuse of institutions: Watergate, Iran-Contra and the IRS,” noting “the first two were ravenously covered by the media; they were Republican Presidents’ problems.”

Chris Matthews Edits George Will to Make it Appear He Compared Bridgegate to Watergate
By Noel Sheppard | January 13, 2014 | 9:34 PM EST

As NewsBusters has been reporting, the Hillary Clinton-loving media are doing almost back-breaking contortions to make the recent Bridgegate scandal completely destroy Governor Chris Christie’s (R-N.J.) presidential ambitions.

Obviously doing his part Monday was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who selectively edited comments George Will made on Fox News Sunday to make it appear that the syndicated columnist was actually comparing Bridgegate to Watergate (multipart video follows with transcripts and commentary):

Will: 'There's Nothing Better for Conservatism Than Periodic Examples of Untrammeled Liberalism'
By Noel Sheppard | January 5, 2014 | 2:13 PM EST

It really is wonderful having George Will at Fox News where we can see him more frequently than a few minutes a week.

On Fox News Sunday, in a segment about incoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), Will said, "[T]here's nothing better for American conservatism than periodic examples of untrammeled liberalism...I give him three years and people will be begging for a return to something else" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

George Will: ‘ObamaCare a Tapestry of Coercions Mitigated by Random Acts of Presidential Mercy’
By Noel Sheppard | December 23, 2013 | 7:24 PM EST

It really is wonderful having George Will on Fox News where we can see him more regularly than for a few minutes once a week.

On Monday’s Special Report, Will said of the revelation earlier in the day that people now had until Tuesday to sign up at Healthcare.gov, “ObamaCare now is a tapestry of coercions mitigated by random acts of presidential mercy announced in the most bizarre ways” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for commentary):

George Will: 'New Biggest American Entitlement Is To Go Through Life Without Being Offended'
By Noel Sheppard | December 22, 2013 | 2:40 PM EST

My nomination for the best comment of the week regarding the controversy surrounding Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson goes to syndicated columnist George Will.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Will marvelously said, "[T]he new biggest American entitlement is the entitlement to go through life without being offended" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

George Will: ‘The Education of This President Is a Protracted and Often Amusing Process’
By Noel Sheppard | December 8, 2013 | 12:35 PM EST

Syndicated columnist George Will had some harsh words for Barack Obama Sunday.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, he said, “The education of this president is a protracted and often amusing process” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

You Read It Here First: George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causing Asteroids
By Brent Baker | December 2, 2013 | 7:57 AM EST

George Will marveled in his column late last week over how “a CNN anchor wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb. 15 was ‘an effect of, perhaps, global warming.’” That quote, however, isn’t new to you if you’ve been reading NewsBusters or attended the MRC’s 2013 “DisHonors Awards” where that was a runner-up in the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis.”

On Fox News Sunday, AP's Julie Pace Makes Excuses For HealthCare.gov and Obama Admin's 2015 Enrollment Delay
By Tom Blumer | November 25, 2013 | 8:54 PM EST

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday (full video here), the Associated Press's Julie Pace twice demonstrated why hanging the "Administration's Press" moniker on the self-described "essential global news network" is more than justified.

One of the two sequences involved the Obama administration's announcement that it will delay Obamacare enrollment for 2015 by 30 days until November 15, 2014 and its optimism that the dysfunctional, insecure HealthCare.gov web site will be operational by the end of the month. In this sequence, Pace indicated blind acceptance of unsupported assertions combined with willingness to parrot long-discredited talking points about why the website initially crashed. Fortunately, as we'll see, Wallace did not let her website history rewrite slide (bolds and numbered tags are mine):

George Will: Filibuster Change Could Lead to Repeal of ObamaCare
By Noel Sheppard | November 21, 2013 | 7:05 PM EST

Democrats in the Senate Thursday invoked the nuclear option changing how the filibuster applies to presidential appointments.

On Fox News’s Special Report hours after the vote, George Will said this could lead to the repeal of ObamaCare in 2017 (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Will on ObamaCare: ‘Only Have This Created By President Who’d Never Run Anything Larger Than a Senate Office'
By Noel Sheppard | November 12, 2013 | 7:00 PM EST

Syndicated columnist George Will made the definitive statement Tuesday about the disaster that is ObamaCare.

Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Will said, “[Y]ou could probably only have this created by a President who’d never run anything larger than a Senate office.”

George Will: Other Than Nixon ‘Has There Ever Been a Worse First Year of a Second Term?’
By Noel Sheppard | November 10, 2013 | 11:22 AM EST

Syndicated columnist George Will asked a marvelous question Sunday that few in the liberal media will.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Will said, “Has there ever – with the exception of Richard Nixon in 1973 - been a worse first year of a second term?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):