George Will
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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4.4 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2012
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alec talks with Pulitzer-prize winner George Will, whose passion for politics began early: he remembers Truman’s election when he was seven years old.
George Will is a political conservative, but he’s not afraid to direct criticism to the right. Will analyzes the current election for Alec – this isn’t a “slam-dunk for either side,” he says, and offers some historical perspective on the current animosity in political life. “We've been through really violent times,” says Will, “and we're in one of those periods now. And it will burn over.” With over 40 years in political journalism, George Will is a voice worth listening to.
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| 1:37.0 | I'm Alec Baldwin and here's the thing with political discourse on television |
| 1:42.6 | dominated by bombast fact twisting and outrageous personal attacks |
| 1:47.4 | It's easy to dismiss every bit of it as a worthless side show |
| 1:51.5 | But one of the rare voices worth listening to is George Will |
| 1:55.6 | He won a Pulitzer in 1977 for his political commentary much of which was critical of President Nixon |
| 2:02.6 | He has a column in both the Washington Post and Newsweek and he's been a regular panelist on ABCs this week on Sunday mornings since 1981 |
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