George Will is...what's the word?

A dick?

My favorite response to his column on washingtonpost.com (of the thousands of responses it appears):

...and the pot is claiming the kettle has become a pompous poseur.

Will's column, "a study in truculence," if I may use his words, is truly stunning. It achieves new levels of hypocracy, mendacity, and sheer numbskull-ity. Take, for example, his description of the scene:

Wednesday's Post reported that at a White House reception for newly elected members of Congress, Webb "tried to avoid President Bush," refusing to pass through the reception line or have his picture taken with the president. When Bush asked Webb, whose son is a Marine in Iraq, "How's your boy?" Webb replied, "I'd like to get them [sic] out of Iraq." When the president again asked "How's your boy?" Webb replied, "That's between me and my boy."

Oddly enough, Will decided to edit a bit of the exchange, namely, our pissy president responding to Webb's first answer, "That's not what I asked you. How's your boy?"

Then there is this passage, that can now be found in the dictionary under the heading, "pro-jec-tion:"

Webb certainly has conveyed what he is: a boor. Never mind the patent disrespect for the presidency. Webb's more gross offense was calculated rudeness toward another human being -- one who, disregarding many hard things Webb had said about him during the campaign, asked a civil and caring question, as one parent to another. When -- if ever -- Webb grows weary of admiring his new grandeur as a "leader" who carefully calibrates the "symbolic things" he does to convey messages, he might consider this: In a republic, people decline to be led by leaders who are insufferably full of themselves.

However, that last bit is true, that's for sure.

UPDATE: I failed to note that Will, in his attempt to limn Webb's boorishness, failed to also mention that Webb included "Mr. President" in both of his responses to the Snapper in Chief.