George Will Laments That Government Is ‘Monitoring Sex On Campuses’

Broadcaster George Will arrives at St. Louis Cardinal broadcaster Mike Shannon's 70th birthday party, Sunday, July 12, 2009 in St. Louis.(Tom Gannam/AP Images for Crown Royal)
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During a discussion about the U.S. government’s response to Ebola on “Fox News Sunday,” Fox contributor and conservative columnist George Will brought up the Obama administration’s efforts to address sexual assault on college campuses.

Will charged that “government is not competent.”

“You asked, can we trust the government to do its job? What isn’t its job nowadays?” he asked, according to ThinkProgress.

“It’s fine-tuning the curriculum of our students K through 12. It’s monitoring sex on campuses,” he continued. “It’s deciding how much ethanol we should put in our gas tanks. It has designed our light bulbs and is worried sick over the name of the Washington football team.”

George Will has a history of criticizing the government and colleges for their efforts to address rape.

In a June column, Will said that initiatives to address sexual assault have made “victimhood a coveted status.”

“Now the Obama administration is riding to the rescue of ‘sexual assault’ victims. It vows to excavate equities from the ambiguities of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of today’s prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults,” he wrote.

Will has made an effort to debunk statistics about sexual assault on college campuses.

“This is my job, is when dubious statistics become the basis of dubious and dangerous abandonment of due process,” he said on C-SPAN in June.

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  1. George Poodlehead, never averse to being a complete fucking moron…

  2. What Krugman said about Gingrich applies to Will

    “Newt Gingrich is what stupid people think smart people sound like.”

  3. today’s prolonged adolescence

    There it is. I knew he would slip into “Get off my lawn!!” somewhere in that diatribe.

  4. While we’re at it, doesn’t it bother you, George, that the government keeps statistics on rape at all? After all, you seem to think it’s all just good, clean fun of the “boys-will-be-boys” variety. Or is it only OK when white, upwardly-mobile college boys do it?

  5. Avatar for wwss wwss says:

    The only thing dubious about the reporting seems to be, by virtually all accounts, the under-reporting. Blather on George …

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