How Much Does George Will Suck?

Oh lord, does George Will suck. (raises his hands to the heavens and becons into the sky) It's that pedantic tone, that weak chin, those geeky spectacles, the endless hours of television and inky moralizing, that haircut just asking for a mussing -- where does one begin?

And where does it end? The icahbod crane-like torso, the boorish references to Hegel and Plato in 750 word columns. (averted gaze)

The greatest mistake anyone could make in this age is to set themselves up in this society as the public scold, the moralizer in chief. Ask Bill Bennett. It never works. Sure you make a lot of money at the outset ... but the shadenfreude factor is impossibly high. Our historical lust for a Puritainical archetype is almost as strong as the natural desire in democracy to level such an ass.

So when George Will went out of his way to defend Lord Conrad Black, without even simply disclosing his financial relationship to his benefactor, all sorts of red lights went off. And George Will got bitchslapped. And rightly so.

"My business is my business. Got it?" said Georgie to The New York Times when asked why he didn't talk about the thousands of Black dollars padding his bank account. $25,000 for a day of conversation the board of advisers for Hollinger International is high by anyone's accounts.