George Will Likens Outrage Over Obama AG Comments To Drunks Venting At Bars

 

Washington Post columnist George Will held nothing back during a brief segment on President Obama’s controversial comments about the looks of California Attorney General Kamala Harris on ABC’s This Week.

Will dismissed the faux outraged over the president’s comments and said they were accurate and the outrage was part of the ‘synthetic indigation’ machine that responds to everything. He did go further and likened the outrage to that of a drunk at a bar.

“We’ve always from time immemorial had that guy at the end of the bar nursing his third beer and venting his opinions. Now they do it, thanks to progress, on the internet,” he said.

Watch clip below via ABC

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Garrett Quinn is the author of the Less is More blog on Boston.com and a frequent contributor to TV and radio in the Boston market. He covered the 2012 presidential campaign for Reason Magazine, particularly the campaign of Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson.