Always wrote in a well reasoned way. A joy to read. The Washington Nationals had a moment of silence in his honor tonight. Fitting.
I legitimately had no idea he was paralyzed.
The Nationala were joined in the moment of silence by several hundred thousand Iraqis.
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.
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.
Same here, and I saw him on panel shows.
Always amazed how some can take a complex issue and understand it in such a cherry picked simple way. Guess it does save time.
If I were to discuss Krauthammer in a Trumpian tone, it would be more like this: 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,