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Heads Should Roll At National Review
world net daily ^ | 1/23/19 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 01/23/2019 10:54:02 PM PST by OddLane

To his credit, National Review editor Rich Lowry has apologized more than once for his and the publication’s initial response to the flap at the Lincoln Memorial involving the kids from Covington Catholic. He has much to apologize for.

In his initial response, without any apparent fact checking, Lowry commended the knee-jerk mea culpa of the Covington diocese, tweeting, “A necessary and appropriate apology.”

In a later tweet, having seen just a little bit of the video, Lowry still felt obliged to condemn the “obnoxious, dumb, and disrespectful behavior of the teens.”

National Review’s deputy managing editor, Nicholas Frankovich, meanwhile weighed in with his own piece, grotesquely titled, “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross.” In it Frankovich describes the boys as “evil.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; covington; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; homosexualagenda; kentucky; mediawingofthednc; nathanphillips; nationalreview; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nicholasfrankovich; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; richlowry; smearmachine; stolenvalor; thecovington
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To: OddLane

“He continued, “It’s another reminder – even for an old hand like me – that it’s best not to make snap judgments and to wait for all sides of a controversy to have a chance to be heard.””

I’ll venture to guess...little Richie has not REALLY learned his lesson.

Just wait for the next episode... He’ll (and his minions) will be lobbing anti-Right stink bombs once again, whether warranted or not.


41 posted on 01/24/2019 7:25:45 AM PST by moovova (US Govt survey shows three out of four people make up 75% of the total population.)
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To: OddLane

this is two strikes, they better shape up because they are in a severe decline.


42 posted on 01/24/2019 7:29:39 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: OddLane

“Despite having seen the video, Nation Review refuses to immediately comment, saying that they are awaiting more information.”

Why the hell is OUR SIDE so scared of a headline like that. OUR SIDE seems to equate the above with saying something like the following (and this is hypothetical only):

“And despite their history of lynchings, National Review says that the KKK helped limit crime in the American South”
(again, hypothetical)

Note the difference between the two quotes, yet National Review and most of OUR LEADERS look at them as virtually the same any time the Leftist Media is spun into a tizzy by something.


43 posted on 01/24/2019 8:13:46 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: OddLane
Contemptible behavior from start to end. Let me help them...

---We were wrong on the facts.

---Our self regard drove us to immediate pontification when questioning the limits of our knowledge would have been better.

---We've appointed ourselves guardians and gatekeepers of the 'conservative' brand. This is presumptuous and inappropriate. That's why we're harshly critical of those who ought to be allies, especially when compared to our treatment of commies.

---We resolve to do better.

44 posted on 01/24/2019 8:20:12 AM PST by gogeo (The Repubs may not always deserve to win, but the RATs always deserve to lose.)
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To: miss marmelstein

MIchael Malice is supposedly going to rip face on wfb Jr. in his next book, which is about the New Right.


45 posted on 01/24/2019 1:12:34 PM PST by OddLane
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To: aquila48

“The whole rag should be shut down.

“They have become nothing more than pathetic, gutless virtue signalers.”

Worth repeating.


46 posted on 01/24/2019 4:27:18 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: irishjuggler

” Kevin Williamson is not everyone’s cup of tea but he’s very smart and an entertaining writer. “

Probably those unemployed, low-life rural blue collar types that Williamson says need to just go die.

It they can’t learn to code software, eff them- the new motto of the Lowry-Goldberg Review.


47 posted on 01/24/2019 4:30:55 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham

It they can’t learn to code software, eff them- the new motto of the Lowry-Goldberg Review.

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To get a job coding software in the US, first they have to get Indian citizenship, learn to speak whatever it is they speak there, spend time in the trenches behind a help desk as “Jeff from Boise”, and then apply for an H1B visa.


48 posted on 01/24/2019 4:33:36 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: TChad

These Never Trump dirtbags thought they could get away with cheap shots because the kids had MAGA hats on. These NR “editors” make obscene salaries, btw. Lowry is well into six figures. Too little, too late. NR needs to die a graceful death.


49 posted on 01/24/2019 4:43:14 PM PST by lodi90
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To: logician2u

“National Review at one time was a respected journal of conservative thought. That time was in the late ‘50s and into the ‘80s. It was never a news magazine as such; it couldn’t, being a bi-weekly with a rather long editing cycle.”

I used to read it cover to cover from maybe 1977 until the early 1990s; by then it was becoming more of a GOP establishment rag than a journal of conservative thought.

Like you, I found the Indiana era The American Spectator to be great. But I also discovered Chronicles, aka Chronicles of Culture, where they were way ahead of the curve in understanding the importance of the culture war.


50 posted on 01/24/2019 4:43:21 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: RoosterRedux
There's actually another book dealing with the Ayres-Obama connection:

Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, Stanley Kurtz

51 posted on 01/24/2019 5:12:31 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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