More from Andrew McCarthy:
Truly. In 1966, which is not exactly millennia ago, Trump’s vulgarity would have had him banned from appearing on anyone’s black-and-white TV — even after midnight.
Today, he is the front-runner. Today, in fact, he is coveted not by the blue channels but by the news channels. He is ratings. He sells.
He is Viagra without commercials. Trump is what he is, though. There is some shock, but no surprise. What John Podhoretz nails as the “living civic nightmare” that is the GOP sweepstakes is not about a demented demagogue’s march to the 2016 erection election. It is about what has become of us. Trump is coveted not by the blue channels but by the news channels. He is ratings. He sells. He is Viagra without commercials.
Trump’s appeal is said to be his penchant for giving voice to the angry masses. But he is not a fit vessel for fighting the social suffocation brought on by political correctness. Trump says out loud things that no healthy person would even think, much less say — I mean, Ivanka is so hot that if she wasn’t my daughter, I’d probably be dating her? Whose mind works that way?
Culture Rot is filling our neighborhoods with 3rd worlders..
McCarthy considers his good buddy Patrick Fitzgerald to be an honorable man. Obviously, McCarthy is a poor judge of character. Perfect qualification to write at NR.
Sounds like little Andy needs a fresh tube of diaper rash ointment.
He should speak to Bob Dole.
Trump’s antics are getting old....very old. So are Rubio’s.
These people need desperately to spend some time in the places illegals are rotting tge culture
They’d get a clue
The point went way over the author's "head". Trump, like many of us, realizes the debates are a farce that the media stages to try to prop up establishment candidates and tear down any challengers. The correct approach to a modern debate is to give it all the respect it deserves: none. The most important thing is to control the narrative after the debate. Trump controlled the narrative after the debate.
I believe Trump changed his mind in the debate about the H1B issue. Or maybe it was something else. I don't remember, I didn't watch, and I don't care. But rather than 24x7 coverage of that, the media is fixated on his anatomy. Maybe not a complete victory for Trump but not a media win for sure.
Like when you bragged about WF Buckley calling Gore Vidal a “queer,” Andrew?
Andrew, gather-up your skirts, clutch those pearls, and hit the fainting couch you old(phony)prude.
You never get to live in the country you grew up in.
Yeah, and the jerks in a circle at NR want 3rd world illegals to swamp America with cheap labor and have litters of more feral 3rd worlders. They can sit and please each other while fools around them carry their load.
This may be true, but it’s certainly not the first time this has happened.
Have no fear, Rush will be breathlessly citing his good buddies article on Monday to try and validate his own disgust with Trump.
Sorry Rush and Andy, but we’ve had it with the establishment and decorum! We need somebody to come in a crush some RINO balls in the meat grinder...and that guy is Donald J. Trump!
Get used to it...Trump isn’t going anywhere!
People who never saw Nelson Rockefeller campaign in the 50s think Trump is really “Norm.”
I’m not going to read the article.
Culture rot? No, ruling body rot. There is a Uniparty who has control of our political situation, our laws, our freedom. They give mere lip service to the Constitution. THAT ROT, controlling our elections with bought and paid for candidates, caused the voters, you know, WE, THE PEOPLE, to turn to a strong person of independent means to try and stop them.
Culture is separate.
The NR is part of the cabal. Couldn’t exist without it. Almost all media are.
The major causative factor in what has so many angry at this point in US history is the fact politicians won`t listen to the voters because they`re bought and sold to special interests.
Obfuscate, rationalize, and excuse this behavior all you want, it is none the less, based on his own confessions, the truth.
Careful Andy you’ll lose your job.
Careful Andy you’ll lose your job.