George Will’s humiliating temper tantrum: Why he is a sensitive “stinkburger”

[DonViejo]

Offended by Obama's "adolescent" words, the rightwing dinosaur is not only a puritan but deeply ignorant of history

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Oh dear me. Fox News superstar George Will is very offended. He’s calling for the smelling salts over that rude young man Barack Obama’s “adolescent” rhetoric. (Obama used the word “stinkburger,” a word so vile that poor George practically collapsed onto his fainting couch.)

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a “meanwich” and a “stinkburger.”

Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.

Heavens to betsy! What will that childish miscreant do next? Tell a U.S. senator to go f**k himself? Oh no, sorry, that was Vice President Dick Cheney, whose return to the halls of power was widely celebrated among the denizens of the Beltway as a sign that the “grown-ups were back in town.” (And said “grown-up” was still snorting and high-fiving to his buddies about it years later.)

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[Rex]

1. People like GW are the reason modern media sucks so bad.

It amazes me that GW and CKraut have jobs. I never thought people would pay for stupid.

[sendero]

2. Dear George..

... being an over the hill old fart you need to understand that you are not in the demographic Obama is talking to. Can you try to get that?

If you think these words were chosen at random on the fly you really have not been paying attention have you.

Now try to understand: nobody and I mean nobody but right wing fucktards like yourself give two shits about your opinion on this.

[DirkGently]

3. Good use of colorful language, actually.

Hadn't heard "meanwich." That's pretty good too. Succinct. Accurate. Memorable.

Obama's one of the best orators we have seen in a long while. If he really once bragged that he has a "gift" in that regard, he wasn't wrong.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Obama went to a deli before the rally.

George Will doesn't tell us that, to make it seem like the remark came out of nowhere.

[factsarenotfair]

5. President Obama should have called it a weapon of mass destruction. n/t

[Orsino]

6. There's no defense for the Ryan budget...

...so Will had to find something to attack.

[bullwinkle428]

7. George Will is afraid of denim - that's all you need to know about the guy.