There's no question that National Review in dealing in "special indulgences." The question is: What's their price?
Posted on 01/22/2016 11:17:23 AM PST by jimbo123
Whatever you might think of National Review's Thursday night attack on Donald Trump is beside the point. That's not what I'm here to talk about. Just forget about The Establishment versus... Trump versus... This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with tactics and media savvy. There are many fine people at National Review, smart people, which is why the incredibly lame and heavy-handed execution of this "broadside" against Trump is something worth talking about.
Conservatives cannot win elections, most especially national elections, living in the 19th century. If you are going to go to the trouble of building what you believe is a Nuclear Bomb - and a full issue of National Review devoted to annihilating Trump is obviously crafted with that in mind - you have to also build a 21st century delivery device.
All that time, all that work, all that effort, all that organization, and by noon the next day, because of a terrible launch platform, National Review's nuke has already belly-flopped and disappeared into the sea.
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This is 2016. Opinions are not changed with the drop of a magazine filled with Very Important Thinkers espousing Very Big Thinks about How We Should All Think. This approach only backfires because it looks self-important, stuffy and conceited from good people who are none of those things.
If I may paraphrase the Coen Brothers: Nobody likes the high hat.
Drudge doesn't issue proclamations.
BuzzFeed doesn't issue proclamations.
The Mainstream Media doesn't issue proclamations.
Hearts and Minds are changed through Narratives - narratives built over time and tested with carefully-crafted storytelling, characters, caricatures, tweets, Facebook posts, attention-grabbing headlines, pictures, videos, and yes, even gifs.
The only message coming out of this National Review issue today is that A BUNCH OF FAMOUS CONSERVATIVES PILED ON DONALD
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This article is a load of BS.
It’s like their very lives and jobs depended on this election not going to Trump.....
Even Tom Sowell, who should know better, joined in. Just shows you even the best can lose it at times.
Did you ever notice Ann Coulter was Romney’s biggest supporter in 2012 and now she is Trumps biggest supporter.
Re her new haircut. Just watch any episode of “Sons of Anarchy”. It’s basically the same kind of greased back prison ‘do worn by Jackson Teller, the mass murdering president of the Sons.
Good point.
There's no question that National Review in dealing in "special indulgences." The question is: What's their price?
CORRECTION: in dealing = is dealing
Isn’t it amazing how Trump has exposed the neo-conservatives among us? True colors are showing through the fascade. Fun to watch them “bravely” come out of their closet.
She and Maddow are using the same hairdresser?
“The eyes of those four show absolute terror...”
There’s no joy in any of those eyes. Looks like Meagan got a new haircut that proclaims the “Don’t F with me! I’m a tough feminist!” style.
If these dino/rino's are so clueless that they need a print mag to get out this Grade B horror shriekfest ... none have a platform better than print, or the infrequent CSPAN pre-8am Dem v Rep knob-in. They're not smart enough.
In this election cycle, the dumb are going to get eaten. And those that barely manage to avoid that fate? You're going back to the back of the bus...
Yes I did. I figure s/he is back filling to recover from supporting the gentile killing Bishop Willard.
Have you ever noticed I don’t care what the ‘celebrities’ have to say?
Oh hell no.
This is solely for the benefit of the DCocktail Circuit, which is the area right above where the Beltway encircles the neck, but not so tight as to preclude masticating kobe beef on petite brioche...
This ridiculous faux censure is so they can nod at George Will at Henriette Fartsniffer's parlor in Georgetown, sidle up to Bowtie and say, "We did all. we. could. to keep that terrible man out of the White House, 'tis a pity we did not succeed." and then ask the black bartender in the white jacket for another double Manhattan "heavy on the bitters"...
That is ALL this is about. Period. And it's about to end.
Coulter is supporting Romney II.
He got too big for NR at the same time he wised up to NR being a bourgeois drinking club. Seriously. That's all there was to it.
Coulter is as irrelevant as the dead letter office calling itself the National Review.
There’s no joy in any of those eyes. Looks like Meagan got a new haircut that proclaims the “Don’t F with me! I’m a tough feminist!” style.
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Looks more like a jaded call girl to me. One who has been ripped off a few times.
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