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Northrop ....George Will is a damn great journalist....but will never be a "o'reilly" because her is in the mainsteam.



O'Reilly is brilliant himself. He knows what's going on. But, his stupid show. He completely orchestrates that to get ratings. Back when I used to watch it, the tipping point for me was when he'd do his stories expressing his "outrage" over pranks pulled by the porn industry. Shane's World went into some public university college dorm and shot a porn. O'Reilly had video clips of of sexy 20-somethings bouncing around in short shorts.

Come on, you're not "outraged". You just trying to get ratings. And, outrage is the only way to slip it buy the corporate censors.

But, what do you expect out of a show that's on every night during prime time on the most popular cable news network?

I do think O'Reilly is brilliant. Sean Hannity on the other hand, not so much. Hannity was the high school jock the school was so proud of. Because, not only was he a good athlete, but also got good grades. Thing was, he wasn't taking any of the harder honors courses, just general curriculum stuff that didn't take reams of intelligence to do well with. And since Hannity worked hard at, he always came down with A's and B's.

George Will is probably bearable to a Liberal on those Sunday morning round tables because he's willing to sit there with Liberals and have a discussion with them. But, he's pretty damn conservative. I wouldn't expect a Liberal to be able to follow him that closely. Probably get on their nerves too much.

David Brooks is a much more moderate Conservative. If I were a Liberal, he's who I'd read. And, David Brooks is also a very colorful writer. Even if he weren't writing about ideas I appreciate, but were just writing fiction, I'd still really like that guy.

Here's a piece Brooks wrote on Justice Roberts confirmation hearing, good stuff: Click

David Brooks is easily my favorite journalist working today.