From his perch on ABC The Great Will (George F. Will) sours the airways with his maladroit imitation of Edmund Burke as moral/political arbiter of our great national moment:never letting an opportunity pass to genuflect in the direction of the unenlightened oligarchs and political Know-nothings that now crowd out any voice approaching public reason, in the Republican Party.

Charles Krauthammer has succeeded over a career of a quarter century, as one of the many American Likudniks. A      man who never fought a war, but with an appetite for blood that rivals any vampire. He likes to make war against every manifestation of 'Socialism' that he deems to exist as actual, as real. His rhetoric is always overheated and he is given to a style of argument that successfully mimics shouting. The power of the raised voice is one of his core beliefs.

Emancipated Reporter (Thomas Friedman) is a writer and thinker always on the hunt for a serviceable idea, perhaps because he is bereft of any of his own. The inventor of such memorable phrases as 'suck on this': he channels the spirit of Borscht Belt Comedian, a much missed character in our national life: he was, at least, funny and in his way wise. Walter Lippmann he is not!