These incidents are becoming so commonplace that it would be more striking to find a moral crusader in the national debate whose personal life did not appear to directly contradict their public persona.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Eric Herman brings some light to the fact that conservative columnist George Will, “sides with thieving pal,” by writing a letter to Judge Amy St. Eve asking for leniency in the conviction of Conrad Black, who was sentenced last week to 6.5 years in prison on charges of stealing $2.9 million from Hollinger International and for obstruction of justice.
Herman excerpts two Will columns accusing liberals of being soft on crime, including one from last year bashing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. According to Herman, Will and Black met during a 1989 trip to Warsaw, but says the connection goes further:
Their connection deepened, by the way. Will served on a Hollinger board of advisers during the Black years, drawing an annual payment of $25,000. On March 6, 2003, Will wrote a column extolling Black without disclosing the payments. The column ran in the Sun-Times.
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