Posted on 08/31/2021 5:34:54 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc. that would permanently discredit it with Republican voters.
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Yea. I can’t afford anything advertised in Garden & Gun. It definitely appeals to the upper crust. It has a lot of good dog stories and recipes though.
It was Buckley himself who turned the magazine over to the losers who eventually wrecked it. And it’s not like he was fooled, he should have been aware of what they were. There was speculation at the time about why he was making the choices that he did. Maybe he was in a financial bind. Maybe he wanted to curry favor with his NYC dinner pals. Who knows. Whatever the reason it was his decision.
“Like Bill Buckley (who would bitch slap Goldberg & Lowry), King is sorely missed.”
Florence King was definitely the best.
But it was Buckley himself who selected the worthless Lowry to take over National Review in 1997.
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