Present George Will Agrees with Past George Will, For Once

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Funny that Galupo would believe that all data is generated by real, honest-to-god experts, and can't deduce that "data" may indeed be generated by "experts" - eg - less-than-authoritative information generated by less-than-authoritative "authorities".
Of course, that would mean that he would have to then admit that he himself is a "journalist" and not a journalist.

junior of DC 10:59PM October 31, 2011

George Will is responsible for more flowery right wing nonsense in his op-ed pieces than a gardening club of ex-Tea Party grandmothers.

Phil Esteen of TX 8:46AM October 31, 2011

I think you're misidentifying the source of Will's scare quotes.
Some people mistrust "experts" for class-based reasons or for anti-intellectual reasons. That would be one reason a writer might employ such scare quotes.
But another person might discount the value of "experts" in situations where they have decided as a matter of principle to take no particular action. For example, it would require extraordinary expertise and mastery of policy wonkery for someone to become an "expert" on all competing plans for state control of health insurance and health care delivery. A person who wanted to be such an expert would need to come to grips with a lot of "data". But if I've decided in advance for reasons of principle that I don't want state control of health insurance and health care delivery, all of that data and all of that expertise is utterly valueless to me. The value of that "expert" to me is actually worse than nil, it's negative - having attained such expertise, he's likely to now want to use it, and I don't want him to use it.
Now, which type of scare quotes do you think Will was using?

T Brookside of VT 7:52AM October 31, 2011

SCOTT...
This G.W. vendetta is getting really tiresome.
I suppose you zealously press on because you've enveloped yourself in Obama's b.s. so completely that the vapors have addled your brain.
The final result of this condition is "progressive, anal-cranial inversion".
Sadly, your symptoms indicate that your case is well advanced.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 2:07PM October 30, 2011

George Will Represents European mentality despite leaving in America, his type has never adapted to America. Thank Nature their mostly old and soon will be dead and America will be free from the restraints from this fools who are holding America back.

jack of CA 12:59PM October 29, 2011