Posted on 02/21/2014 9:08:20 PM PST by Sideshow Bob
Correct, it is a Disqus option that NRO recently implemented.
Thanks very much for your information. I was young and didn’t read NR back then.
“But I do agree with you about the overall drift of the publication, which has now become quite alarming.”
Me three!
When you find yourself attacking Thomas Sowell as a RINO and demanding (insinuating ) that he not be published for us to read, that is when you know you have gone wrong, real wrong.
No, I merely suggested that Dr. Sowell has lost his mind with his last 3 hit piece columns attacking Cruz. I stated factually (no insinuation) that he is among NRO's stable of Republican Establishment writers. RINO does not necessarily equal Establishment. But as an academic, Dr. Sowell might fit as an elitist.
I NEVER suggested that Dr. Sowell shouldn't be published or read. I don't want to stifle Sowell. My vanity rant was about NRO's attempt to stifle conservative blowback against the Establishment GOP.
I have not gone wrong, Sowell (and Charen and Coulter and York and NRO and the Weekly Standard) has.
Lowry and his attitude toward conservatives back in the 2008 election is why I dropped a 25 year subscription to NR and never looked back.
A little off topic, but related to comments.
Does anyone here read “Commentary”?
For a long time they never had comments and then they did for a while and the comments were pretty good (hey, esp. including mine!) but now they’ve gotten rid of them.
I googled a bit and even emailed them asking when and why they had done this, but they never answered and I never could find anything.
Anybody know anything about this?
Thanks if you do!
“National Review has NEVER been trustworthy, not even under WFB. I used to subscribe to it but noticed that during the 1968 Presidential contest NR was devoting all of its energies to criticizing George Wallace but not Humphrey.”
You’re quite right. Last night I happened to watch an old Firing Line featuring George Wallace as the guest. Buckley could not have come across as more of Northeastern Elitist if he had worked at it. Buckley even admitted that Wallace was making him sound like a liberal- which is certainly how Buckley came across.
I used to watch Firing Line but I didn’t recall this one and I was startled to see how much of a snobbish Establishment character Buckley displayed in his contemptuous dismissal of Wallace. Firing Line often featured Leftists as the guest and I’d never seen Buckley as rude to a guest as he was here. In retrospect you can see how much the GOP feared Wallace would run a populist campaign and siphon votes from Nixon; Buckley was being a good little waterboy to try to prevent it.
No, that article you linked is 18 months old. NRO has always had different customization than what is described in that article.
NRO made the change on a Friday mid-morning. Why not at the end of a day or over a weekend or at the start of a month? In fact, NRO went back and edited the negative ratings of all previous posts for all stories from all previous dates.
But the page you link to isn’t NRO, it’s Disqus help page explaining the change in how voting works. That appears to be a Disqus change, not a NRO change in options choices.
And when I looked at the moderation board options, it didn’t seem to offer a show/hide votes option.
So I’m not sure that NRO is the source of the change. While the Redstate post is older, it does indicate some of the troll problems that have cropped up from using Disqus.
Crucifying Thomas Sowell for writing his opinion on how we should proceed against socialism is a marked sign you have gone wrong.
Disagreeing is not attacking.
‘Attacking’ in this case is a word used to do nothing more than stir emotions.
Sowell posted that we should take a different path.
Post the exact words of the so called attacks that Sowell made if you can.
We need a leader. Do we expect John Boehner to weep us back into power?
That said, betting that Sowell is wrong about anything is risky.
Sorry, do your own damn homework.
Here's a better idea. Why don't you post the exact words that exculpate Sowell?
But I will say that the WWII analogy Sowell used in his latest column was rather poor:
1) I don't believe Cruz is fighting a war he can't win.
2) The state of the GOPe is not like Dunkirk.
3) The GOPe has never really fought the Dems.
4) I don't believe the GOPe is waiting for a war that it can win because there has been no evidence for nearly the last 20 years that the GOPe leadership will EVER stand up and fight the Dems.
I think a more apt WWII analogy is that if conservatives do as Sowell suggests and leave the GOPe leadership alone and wait for the GOPe to lead the fight to repeal Obamacare and fight the Dem agenda, it would be like the Allies waiting for Vichy France to take the lead in defeating Hitler.
No, you do your homework.
You keep posting that Sowell is attacking Cruz and when I asked for an example of that , not only couldn't you come up with a single one but you demand that I prove he wasn't,that I prove a negative.
It is YOU HATERS who do the attacking
You are attacking Sowell and accusing him of doing what you are doing to him .
Its deceitful.
Sorry, you might be able to sell that tripe if Sowell wrote just one column in a vacuum. Sowell wrote 3 consecutive pieces "disagreeing" with Cruz. And Sowell did so amidst a flurry of Establishment GOP columnists that all had roughly the same "Gravitas" messaging.
To me, that constitutes malice, intent and coordination.
bump
Is that a crime now in your imaginary New World Order??
to disagree?
Must we round up those like Sowell into camps for the *crime* of disagreement of the new world order?
....and like you did, to lie and call disagreement *attacks* on him ?
I posted several hundred words on this thread and you still want more. If you don't like what I wrote, go to another thread.
If you stay, keep it civil. Call me a HATER or deceitful again and you will be answering to JimRob.
“That said, betting that Sowell is wrong about anything is risky. “
Sowell made a number of errors in his book on the housing bubble. He isn’t infallible. I suspect he relied on some researchers who didn’t serve him well.
More than that Sowell is 83 years old now. Not everyone remains as sharp as they once were when the years start piling up.
Project much? Please remember that this vanity post was about NRO's censorship of conservative pushback to their Establishment messaging. I don't want to restrict Sowell's freedom to express himself. I object to the GOPe using leftist media tactics to smother Tea Party dissent.
I will? Really? Lets test that.
You hater..
You deceitful...
AHHHHH ...I was just joking, I didnt mean it ,....oh nose... whats happening ?.....STOP IT.... I agree with you that Sowell is the enemy....what? its too late ??? .....AHHHHHHH
SOL RIP LOL
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