Is Krauthammer a para- or quadriplegic?

[LLStarks]

Just curious.

I've heard people claim one way or the other.

[Critters2]

1. He seems to have use of his hands, so that would make him paraplegic. nt

[KamaAina]

7. There is such a thing as an "incomplete quad"

with limited use of the hands. I know several such people and have witnessed them write with pens, eat with utensils, etc., usually attached with Velcro straps.

[Odin2005]

13. That describes a friend very well.

Can't use her legs and only has partial use of her right arm. Oddly enough her sense of touch is OK, it's just that her motor control is impaired, it's some complication of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

[trotsky]

2. This article says paraplegic.

http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/krauthammer-and-goldberg-on-stem-cell-research/

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Aside from his physical condition, he is just plain pathetic.

[bbinacan]

8. Did you know that

"In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale."

that,

"However, on domestic issues, Krauthammer is a supporter of legalized abortion;<25><26><27> an opponent of the death penalty;<28><29><30><31> an intelligent design critic and an advocate for the scientific consensus on evolution, calling the religion-science controversy a "false conflict;"<32><33> a supporter of embryonic stem cell research using embryos discarded by fertility clinics with restrictions in its applications;<34><35><36> and a longtime advocate of radically higher energy taxes to induce conservation.<37><38><39><40> Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor for The Washington Post who edited Krauthammer's columns for 15 years, called his weekly column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no 'trendy' in it. You never know what is going to happen next."<3>"

I have to admire the guy for overcoming the obstacle he was faced with.

Learn something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

[Forkboy]

11. You left out these parts....

He supported the Iraq war on the “realist" grounds of the strategic threat the Saddam regime posed to the region as UN sanctions were eroding and of his weapons of mass destruction; and on the "idealist" grounds that a self-sustaining democracy in Iraq would be a first step towards changing the poisonous political culture of tyranny, intolerance and religious fanaticism in the Arab world that had incubated the anti-American extremism from which 9/11 emerged.

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In late 2006 and 2007, he was one of the few commentators to support the surge in Iraq.

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Krauthammer is generally considered a conservative;<23> he has also been called a neoconservative.

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In a 2005 speech (later published in Commentary Magazine) he called neoconservatism “a governing ideology whose time has come." He noted that the original "fathers of neoconservatism" were “former liberals or leftists”. More recently, they have been joined by "realists, newly mugged by reality," such as Condoleezza Rice, Richard Cheney, and George W. Bush, who "have given weight to neoconservatism, making it more diverse and, given the newcomers’ past experience, more mature."

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According to Hendrik Herzberg, a former colleague of Krauthammer's at The New Republic during the 1980s, his views have changed significantly over time - Herzberg describes his views when the two first met in 1978 as '70 per cent Mondale liberal, 30 per cent “Scoop Jackson Democrat,” i.e., hard-line on Israel and relations with the Soviet Union', whilst characterising his politics in the mid-80s as '50-50: still fairly liberal on economic and social questions but a full-bore foreign-policy neoconservative'. Herzberg currently considers Krauthammer to be 'a pretty solid 90-10 Republican'.

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The liberal media watchdog group, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), criticized Krauthammer, along with political analyst William Kristol, for their profuse praise of George W. Bush's second inaugural address on January 20, 2005. On FOX News, Krauthammer called the speech "revolutionary" in its advocacy of universal freedom and compared Bush to former U.S. President John F. Kennedy whose inaugural address expansively pledged that "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

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In a December 5, 2005 in the Weekly Standard,<61> Krauthammer argues that any ban of torture must entail at least two exceptions. He claims that in both the situation of imminent danger (“ticking time bomb scenario”) or if it is believed that torture can procure life-saving information in the case of a high-level terrorist deeply involved in the planning of future attacks. He has repeated these assertions in The Washington Post and other publications where his work is syndicated.

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Yep, nothing warms like the heart like someone on DU defending a torture apologist neocon! :applause:

[bbinacan]

14. I disagree with much

of what he says but, at least he's not a screaming lunatic like the Becks of the world.

[Forkboy]

15. I agree. He's a very reserved lunatic.

[warren pease]

16. Also a former member of PNAC and signatory to the notorious Sept. 20, 2001 letter...

... endorsing the so-called war on terror, which begins:

We write to endorse your admirable commitment to “lead the world to victory” in the war against terrorism. We fully support your call for “a broad and sustained campaign” against the “terrorist organizations and those who harbor and support them.”

Amazing how well that's working out, eh Chuckie?


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[spanone]

4. brain dead

[bbinacan]

9. Read post #8 n/t

[Forkboy]

12. read post #11

[KamaAina]

5. Damned if I can find out.

Web searching turns up roughly equal numbers of instances of each. I suspect that many normate (my new vocabulary word, from my newest and dearest friend who is a wheelchair user) writers don't know the difference.

For whatever it's worth, New Mobility said quad. Either way, it just goes to show the fallacy of the "supercrip" argument: people with disabilities aren't necessarily saints. Jesse Freakin' Helms used a chair toward the end of his life, fer cryin' out loud!

[Ron Green]

6. Dr. Strangelove in our time.

edit for tpyo.

[MrScorpio]

10. Despite his paralysis he has a crippled soul

Which is the only thing that really counts