And that's why THIS guy is totally awesome!!!!!!
Posted on 12/20/2014 1:53:34 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
Utah Sen. Mike Lee defended himself Tuesday against allegations that his point of order vote, which he earned in partnership with Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions, contributed to President Barack Obama being able to confirm more of his nominees through the outgoing Democratic Senate majority.
“Look, I’ve got tremendous respect for Charles Krauthammer, but he does not have a crystal ball,” Utah Sen. Mike Lee said on the Laura Ingraham radio show.
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Michael Savage : "Charles “Sauerkraut” of Fox News– a man I’ve not been impressed with– I think he’s way overrated. Because of his sad demeanor, people think he’s intelligent. They confuse his dour looks for intelligence. They think
And that's why THIS guy is totally awesome!!!!!!
Krauthammer is about as close to having a crystal ball as anyone can get I think.
Crystal balls are fragile and can easily be broken. I think big brass balls are better.
Krauthammer is the GOPe’s favorite “conservative” pundit. Savage is right. His demeanor including his rusty slow speech makes him look smart.
I disagree with a number of Krauthammer’s ideas, but to say he isn’t intelligent is wrong.
His rusty slow speech is due to having to take a breath every few words so often because of his injury from an accident years ago. He’s in a wheelchair and barely has use of his hands. He does drive a van though.
Savage is a hack!
From Wikipedia: Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City[2] and raised in Montreal.[3] “My father was a naturalized French citizen. He lived in France most of his life and moved to the United States after the war and got involved in real estate. A friend of his took him on a business trip to Montreal and he was enchanted by the idea of living in a place where French was spoken” .[4] His parents were Orthodox and he went to a Hebrew day school. “I got a rigorous Jewish education. I know what it is to be a Jew. There’s a difference between being nominally Jewish or sentimentally Jewish and being grounded in Jewish learning”.[4] In 1970, he graduated from McGill University with First Class Honors in political science and economics.[5] The following year, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to the United States and entering Harvard Medical School. During Krauthammer’s first year of medical school, he was paralyzed in a diving-board accident[2][6] and was hospitalized for 14 months. He has been confined to a wheelchair ever since the accident. He continued his medical studies at Harvard, however, and graduated with his class, earning his M.D. in 1975. From 1975 to 1978, Krauthammer was a resident and then a chief resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.[7] During his time as chief resident, he discovered a variant of manic depressive disease which he called “Secondary Mania”.[8] He also co-authored the path-finding study on the epidemiology of mania.[9]
In 1978, Krauthammer moved to Washington, D.C., to direct planning in psychiatric research under the Carter administration.[1] He began contributing articles about politics to The New Republic and in 1980 served as a speech writer to vice president Walter Mondale.[1] In January 1981, Krauthammer joined The New Republic as both a writer and editor.[1] In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine, one of which first brought him national acclaim for his development of the “Reagan Doctrine”.[10] In 1984, his New Republic essays won the “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism”.[1] The weekly column he began writing for The Washington Post in 1985 won him the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987.[11] In 1990, he became a panelist for the weekly PBS political roundtable Inside Washington, remaining with the show until it ceased production in December 2013. For the last decade[vague] he has been a political analyst and commentator for Fox News.
In 2013, Krauthammer published Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics, an immediate bestseller that remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 22 weeks, 10 weeks in a row at number one.[12]
In 2006, the Financial Times named Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America,[10] saying “Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades. He coined and developed ‘The Reagan Doctrine’ in 1985 and he defined the US role as sole superpower in his essay ‘The Unipolar Moment,’ published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Krauthammer’s 2004 speech ‘Democratic Realism’, which was delivered to the American Enterprise Institute when Krauthammer won the Irving Kristol Award, set out a framework for tackling the post-9/11 world, focusing on the promotion of democracy in the Middle East.” In 2009, Politico columnist Ben Smith wrote that Krauthammer had “emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice,” a “kind of leader of the opposition...a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president.” The New York Times columnist David Brooks says that today “he’s the most important conservative columnist.”[13] Former congressman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called Krauthammer “without a doubt the most powerful force in American conservatism. He has [been] for two, three, four years.”[14]
Krauthammer’s other awards include the People for the American Way’s First Amendment Award, the Champion/Tuck Award for Economic Understanding, the first annual Bradley Prize, and the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism,[15] an annual award given by the Eric Breindel Foundation.
Former president Bill Clinton called Krauthammer “a brilliant man” in a December 2010 press conference.[16] Krauthammer responded, tongue-in-cheek, that “my career is done” and “I’m toast”.[17]
Krauthammer is a member of the Chess Journalists of America[18] and the Council on Foreign Relations.[19] He is co-founder of Pro Musica Hebraica, a not-for-profit organization devoted to presenting Jewish classical music – much of it lost or forgotten – in a concert hall setting.[20] On September 26, 2013, Krauthammer received the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.[21]
Krauthammer has been married to Robyn, an artist, since 1974. They have one child, Daniel.[
Correct.
Is the Kraut having flashbacks to his Mondale days?
Lee, Sessions, and Cruz made the wussified Republicans go on record on the constitutionality of Zero’s executive “memo”. The wusses hate being forced into coming out into the sunlight on this kind of stuff. Reid’s confirmation votes on Zero’s nominees were not related to the constitutionality vote. That has been refuted numerous times. But lame as it is, it’s the only smokescreen the pantywaists can come up with to smear Cruz, Lee, and Sessions.
You’re right. He’s a Harvard graduate in psychology, a member of the Council on Foreign relations and a stopped clock on policy.
Let’s see...given a choice between Savage and Krauthammer...I pick Krauthammer.
Krauthammer can run rings around Savage.
I still listen to Savage’s radio show because I think he’s passionate and is one of the good guys, but his stream of consciousness format and constantly comparing himself to others without PhD’s is very telling. He knows he’s not that smart but claims otherwise every single show.
Krauthammer is a deliberate, slow speaker who prepares his thoughts before they leave his mouth. Granted he doesn’t have to fill multiple hours of a talk show, but he gets to the point in much less time.
I disagree with some of the things he says but I think he would kick your a$$ in intelligence.
The take home message is: really smart people sometimes make brainless public comments, thus rendering their underlying intelligence for that given moment totally worthless and by all appearances completely absent.
Thank you but I already knew that. From your post it appeared you didn’t.
I agree with your conclusion, but that is not what the original poster stated in post#1.
I mentioned nothing about his injury, just his voice and presumed intelligence. I don’t need more proof that mindreading doesn’t work, SD. ;-]
I agree with Krauthammer that they should not have done so as they were all going home until this was pulled.
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