Posted on 01/20/2019 5:30:04 PM PST by Impala64ssa
According to a source inside of #NeverTrump stalwart National Review, who spoke to Big League Politics on the condition of anonymity, the magazine is in turmoil after publishing a now-deleted piece bashing the Covington Catholic High School students.
Deputy managing editor Nicholas Frankovich penned a piece called “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” which was published at 3 a.m. on Sunday.
“The guy who posted that did it at 3am without running it by anyone,” an employee familiar wit the situation told Big League Politics.
The source said that editor Rich Lowry is “deeply chagrined” by incident.
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“Rich feels bad about this,” the source added.
“It appears that most of the teenagers in this video are from a Catholic high school near Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. They mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. ‘Bullying’ is a worn-out word and doesn’t convey the full extent of the evil on display here,” the piece, archived here, said.
High-profile members of the magazine immediately took to Twitter to bash the teenaged boys from Covington Catholic after the mainstream press accused them of racist hatred towards Nathan Phillips, a Native American man. After several hours of running with that narrative, Big League Politics, among other independent news outlets, published stories showing the full context of the incident. As it turned out, the Native man approached the boys, beating his drum in the face of the boy at the center of the incident. It is clear that the Native man was the cause of the confrontation.
Since the real story came to light, the magazine has reversed course. It published a Sunday piece telling the actual story, but did not apologize for, or mention its deleted hit piece on the boys.
The heavy hitters at National Review took to Twitter to clarify that, after actually researching the incident, that they were wrong and the Covington Catholic boys were wrongly accused. None of them, though, mentioned the hastily deleted story at issue.
“Deleted my initial tweet on Lincoln Memorial incident. Even the video I watched last night that suggested some ambiguity didn’t fully capture what really happened. This was not what it was portrayed as *at all*” said Lowry.
Who needs either of these pos Faus news mags?
Even their statements are pompous.
Burn the mess to the ground.
It should have died the moment they fired John O’Sullivan and exiled immigration patriots like Peter Brimelow.
National Review....shameful operation. Bad Act.
They have a handful of people left to still do good work most notably Victor Davis Hanson and Andy McCarthy. But the rest of them especially that arrogant jackass Kevin Williamson and “TDS to the point of mouth foaming” David French have destroyed the magazine
For shame. They should grovel in their apology.
Who wrote the initial article????????
National Review is a steaming pile of .... Is Bill Kristol still involved with that crap?
Isn’t this the ‘conservative’ publication that has recently decided to (drastically) downsize it’s staff?
I think our ‘pal’ Bill Kristol worked for them too.
Eh, always a controlled opposition CIA front.
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“Deputy managing editor Nicholas Frankovich penned a piece called “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” which was published at 3 a.m. on Sunday.”
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The kids and school may sue. Hope they go the way of Rolling Stone.
Also hoping all the trolls are named who jump on those bandwagon and lose bigly.
Lawsuit!!
LOL. It was right there. Sorry, sometimes I skim too quickly. I’ve never heard of Nicholas Frankovich.
Several times today, I appealed to NR writer Nick Frankovich to delete that ridiculous piece comparing the kids to Roman soldiers crucifying Christ. He wouldn’t budge. Apparently he did now. Sad.
LOL. It was right there. Sorry, sometimes I skim too quickly. I’ve never heard of Nicholas Frankovich.
National Review has always been first to throw people into the woodchipper. Joseph Sobran, Peter Brimelow, Theodore Dalrymple, yet they elevate morons and hacks like Kevin Williamson, Jonah Goldberg, and David French.
The magazine should go under like the Weekly Standard.
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