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National Review—a Titanic Failure
Canada Free Press ^ | 01/23/16 | Dr. Brad Lyles

Posted on 01/23/2016 7:50:05 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

In particular, Trump has accomplished what no politician, ever, has accomplished. He owns the media

It is discouraging to find the National Review, home to a profundity of prominent pundits, attacking the frontrunner, Donald Trump, on the very eve of the first primary contest. “Conservatives against Trump?” Really?

Even granting the authors good intentions, they accomplish nothing more than ‘rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.’

“Conservatives against Trump” misses the point entirely. None of us regular guy and gal Conservatives out here in flyover-land, many well read (well, at least having read The Liberty Amendments) are encumbered by the ridiculous ages-old insistence upon purity in Conservative candidates.


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1 posted on 01/23/2016 7:50:05 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/22/selective-outrage-national-review-trashes-trump-rallies-behind-ryan/

This is a good companion piece.


2 posted on 01/23/2016 7:52:20 AM PST by Nicojones
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To: Sean_Anthony
Obama didn't own the media?

Bill Clinton didn't own the media?

The author shouldn't insult the intelligence of the reader from the very first sentence.

Valueless "analysis."

3 posted on 01/23/2016 7:53:06 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Sean_Anthony

true words


4 posted on 01/23/2016 7:53:50 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: wideawake

Use comprehension. The media were lap dogs for Clinton and Obama and all things dim.

Trump owns the media because he uses them for his own purposes, excoriates them at will, and does not give a rat’s behind what they say about him.

Your analysis lacks


5 posted on 01/23/2016 7:55:25 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: wideawake

Obama doesn’t own the media. He is their slave.


6 posted on 01/23/2016 7:57:00 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Nifster
The media were lap dogs for Clinton and Obama and all things dim.

Trump owns the media because he uses them for his own purposes, excoriates them at will, and does not give a rat's behind what they say about him.

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Well said.

7 posted on 01/23/2016 7:58:28 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Helicondelta
Obama doesn't own the media. He is their slave

Very good.

+1

8 posted on 01/23/2016 7:59:01 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at all.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Most of the prominent pundits actually work for The Cheap Labor Express.

They are paid to convince us that we have no choice but to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.


9 posted on 01/23/2016 8:02:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes, what is “conservative” about mass Third World immigration?


10 posted on 01/23/2016 8:04:50 AM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: Sean_Anthony

How many who do not support Trump will subscribe? Maybe me.
I am the one who sees DT manipulation of the press Nixonian and scary?
Perhaps some of the 70% or so not planning on voting for him do.


11 posted on 01/23/2016 8:06:28 AM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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Conservatives against Trump

Would these so-called "conservatives" include the likes of Linda Graham, Juan McLame, Mitchie (0bama's Bitch) McConnell, Paul Ryno, Cryin' Johnny Boehner, senor (Mama's boy) el Jebbo?

12 posted on 01/23/2016 8:08:22 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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Nancy, you’re the best!


13 posted on 01/23/2016 8:11:32 AM PST by teg_76
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To: libbylu

If Trump wins the nomination, will you vote for him???

Or just not vote????


14 posted on 01/23/2016 8:19:21 AM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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"We can thank Trump for single-handedly taking out JEB, the media, the GOPe & their big donors and even setting the dems back a notch or two. And he has barely spent any money doing it while the corrupt GOPe and related PACs have wasted tens if not hundreds of millions trying to hold on to their power base. And I don't feel humiliated a bit. Grateful that PC is being destroyed and the rules rewritten."

Jim Robinson

15 posted on 01/23/2016 8:26:39 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Thomas Sowell. Ore his he just a flyby night lib in conservative clothing too?


16 posted on 01/23/2016 8:26:47 AM PST by Bidimus1
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Sowell and Katie Pavalitch are the only two that I didn’t think were working for The Cheap Labor Express.
I haven’t read their pieces yet. They probably have good reasons for not liking Trump. Heck, I don’t like Trump as a person, but I have concluded he is the right wrench to throw into the wheels of The Cheap Labor Express.


17 posted on 01/23/2016 8:41:05 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“We can thank Trump for single-handedly taking out JEB, the media, the GOPe & their big donors and even setting the dems back a notch or two. And he has barely spent any money doing it while the corrupt GOPe and related PACs have wasted tens if not hundreds of millions trying to hold on to their power base. And I don’t feel humiliated a bit. Grateful that PC is being destroyed and the rules rewritten.”

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Here, here or is it Hear, hear

Extremely well said


18 posted on 01/23/2016 8:45:27 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Anyone can say they are against illegals, but Sowell backs people whose policies are Pro-illgal, So I know his deeds.


19 posted on 01/23/2016 8:48:51 AM PST by heights
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That is ... Exactly ... The case many of us have been making ... And we make it without impugning others’ character. I understand the purist view, I don’t think anyone is stupid for having it .... But it IS interesting to hear them make their case with the traditional Liberal tactics of name calling and insult masquerading as rational disagreement.


20 posted on 01/23/2016 8:54:18 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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