I don’t normally read Bill McClellan because I think he’s obnoxious, and find his columns common, predictable, and rather simplistic. It’s obvious he’s trying to champion the common man, but I don’t care to read about most of the people whom he champions.
To make it clear, I have created this handy chart of columnists you can easily use in the sentence, “Bill McClellan is no….”
| John Kass | Bob Greene | Mary Schmich | Clarence Page |
| Steve Chapman | Eric Zorn | Richard Roeper | Neil Steinberg |
| John O’ Sullivan | George Will | Anna Quindlen | Mike Royko |
| Studs Terkel | Robert Novak | James Lileks | Mark Steyn |
| Jim Stingl | Whitney Gould | Mike Nichols | Andrea Peyser |
| Steve Dunleavy | Charles Krauthammer | Michelle Malkin | Anne Applebaum |
| Robert J. Samuelson | Bob Rybarcyzk | The Night Cabbie | David Nicklaus |
| 80% of college op-ed columnists. | Catherine Galasso-Vigorito | Most Suburban Journal Opinion Shapers | |
That’s a start.
This is the only time I am going to mention it. If I let my animosity towards other commentators eat at me, I’ll start writing like Neil Steinberg.
