George Will is the 2014 Misinformer Of The Year

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"When they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate."

This single phrase has followed George Will for the last six months. The syndicated conservative columnist, considered by many a thoughtful intellectual rather than a bomb-thrower, severely damaged his brand when he wrote a June 2014 column dismissing efforts on college campuses to combat the epidemic of sexual assault and suggesting that women who say they were raped receive "privileges." The column has sparked hundreds to protest his public appearances, challenges from U.S. Senators and women's rights groups, and the dropping of his column from a major newspaper.

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Media Matters isn't the only organization to recognize the damage Will's commentary did to the discourse this year. When PolitiFact awarded its 2014 Lie of Year to "exaggerations about Ebola," they cited Will as a prime example. Will used his Fox News platform to spread lies about the disease, falsely claiming that it could be "spread through the air." As PolitiFact noted:


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Will has a long history of pushing misinformation, but it finally caught up with him in 2014, tarnishing the reputation as a public intellectual he had spent decades cultivating. He started the year one of the most respected members of the conservative media elite, and ended it with hundreds protesting his speeches. For this reason, Media Matters recognizes George Will as the 2014 Misinformer of the Year.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/22/misinformer-of-the-year-george-will/201946



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[House of Roberts]

1. To be fair.

His move from ABC to Fox requires him to vastly exceed his previous record, on a weekly basis. He's just doing the job they pay him for, now.

[Fred Sanders]

4. If it is not a lie it is not going to get any cash from Ailes.

[lpbk2713]

2. He won over Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly?

Their jerseys must have been retired.

[merrily]

3. While still on This Week, Will claimed that the Framers intended the Senate to

block legislation. Those were not his exact words, but he was, in essence, defending the role of the Senate in creating gridlock. The reason the Senate gridlocks legislation is a combination of Senate cloture rules and ever-increasing partisanship, neither of which was the work of the Framers.