# Charles Krauthammer has died (title update) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923 "2018-06-11T22:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/21 "2018-06-22T01:58:39Z")
Always wrote in a well reasoned way. A joy to read. The Washington Nationals had a moment of silence in his honor tonight. Fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/22 "2018-06-22T03:21:52Z")
I legitimately had no idea he was paralyzed. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/23 "2018-06-22T03:24:25Z")
> [@Tigers2B1](#): > > Always wrote in a well reasoned way. A joy to read. The Washington Nationals had a moment of silence in his honor tonight. Fitting. The Nationala were joined in the moment of silence by several hundred thousand Iraqis. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/24 "2018-06-22T03:54:35Z")
This thread has taken a Trumpian turn in class and compassion. It isn’t Trump that has lowered us as a people; we mirror him on both the left and the right. Perhaps the internet has been the culprit. Its easy to say anything about anyone at anytime when we are anonymous. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/25 "2018-06-22T04:03:50Z")
I’m not sure if he changed or I did (probably me), but I know that I found his writing less and less compelling over the years. Even in the late 90s and early 2000s I didn’t read him that often, but by the end I was generally actively ignoring his columns. That said, he could make a cogent point and I’d still take him on the op-ed page over Marc Theissen or some of the other right-wing writers the Washington Post keeps around for reason I don’t understand. Condolences to his wife, his son, and any other family. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/26 "2018-06-22T12:10:42Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I legitimately had no idea he was paralyzed. Same here, and I saw him on panel shows. ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/27 "2018-06-22T12:45:50Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > The Nationala were joined in the moment of silence by several hundred thousand Iraqis. Always amazed how some can take a complex issue and understand it in such a cherry picked simple way. Guess it does save time. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/28 "2018-06-22T13:27:08Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > This thread has taken a Trumpian turn in class and compassion. If I were to discuss Krauthammer in a Trumpian tone, it would be more like this: [https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LeafyBitesizedCopperhead-size\_restricted.gif](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LeafyBitesizedCopperhead-size_restricted.gif). Krauthammer used his position of influence to advocate for some of the worst things the US did in the early 2000s. He doesn’t get a pass just because he was polite to his coworkers or he dressed up his immoral ideology with precise diction and grammar. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923/29 "2018-06-22T20:35:21Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > If I were to discuss Krauthammer in a Trumpian tone, it would be more like this: [https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LeafyBitesizedCopperhead-size\_restricted.gif](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LeafyBitesizedCopperhead-size_restricted.gif). > > Krauthammer used his position of influence to advocate for some of the worst things the US did in the early 2000s. He doesn’t get a pass just because he was polite to his coworkers or he dressed up his immoral ideology with precise diction and grammar. But he was a white man and therefore it is tacky to point out he was a monster, [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-krauthammer-has-died-title-update/815923.md?page=1)