The whole rag should be shut down.
They have become nothing more than pathetic, gutless virtue signalers.
The only reason there has been any apology at all is the blatant social media proof their NR was flat.out wrong.
If there had not been video proof to the contrary, regardless if it was true or not, no author at NR would have apologized.
They just got caught.
Maybe there will be a fat payout from Soros to the staff at NR soon, or not.
WND still with the annoying pop-up ads, but Cashill seems always worth the read.
Buckley rag was CIA controlled opposition from the start and I wonder whether that is what it still is. And just who donates how much to their opaque “foundation”.
Meanwhile, their idiot editor’s apology is of course a non-apology apology. Simply saying his words were too strong—and not that he ran with the liberal media fake story, when the evidence is now clear that the boys indeed were innocent.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/an-apology/
Planted stories are nothing new; political operatives have been doing that for generations.
What's new is gathering an instant audience, through Internet social networks, to spread the story far and wide before honest news people--and there are still a few, I think--have a chance to do cursory fact-checking.
Such was the case with the video clip that set off the inflammatory accusations, criticism and denunciation of the Covington boys who were at the Lincoln Memorial waiting for a bus.
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.
No doubt the magazine and its founder/benefactor, William F. Buckley, Jr., were instrumental in getting Ronald Reagan elected President, and Goldwater the '64 Republican nominee before that. Politics was its primary theme, commentary on society a close second. It had some good writers who didn't shy away from the label of conservative, among them some former Trotskyites who had seen the light. Regardless of their often questionable backgrounds, NR's editors and contributors stimulated many conservatives' brain cells with their columns and articles. It was the best, since there was no conservative-oriented competition for a long time, until some upstart at Indiana started publishing an alternative, The American Spectator.
It's too bad we don't have a dozen or more right-leaning political magazines, but that's unlikely these days. Print magazines are destined to go the way of the buggy-whip.
Rich Lowry, the epitamey of “Knee-jerk” and “self-jerk”.
I was a 30 year NR subscriber. Fowler was a neighbor of mine. Our fallout began when NR turned against the Tea Party. turned bitter with NR endorsement of milk toast Mitt and the final break when NR printed a hit job on the Donald.
Cahill is right. NR is paralyzed by the race card and is useless in both the cultural and political revolution upon us. I hope it closes too.
When William F Buckley Senior died, National Review died shortly after. National Review today is part of the Republican Swamp.
These Covington students are minors, just kids.
This slime rag perpetrated child abuse.
Propaganda will soon be able to result in death as our nation continues to morph into a draconian banana republic.
I hope Covington sues them out of business.
Millions in punitive damages.
They should do more than just apologize. They should be leading the attack so the leftist propagandist who initiated the event, the celebrities who made those brutal comments, and the press who inflamed the incident.
National Review is a snowflake rag.
I was a subscriber until last year. I should have quit it in ‘16 when that dude named French put himself up as an alternative to Trump in the election.
The never-Trumper editors are making their points to dwindling readers. The Donald himself was accurate when he said “nobody reads National Review.”
Maybe the editors would prefer President Kamala Harris?
I’d gladly punch Rich Lowry in the face, BJ offer or not.
Whatever. There are a couple good writers at National Review. The rest are the same out-of-date, ineffective squishes who think their job is to police the Right and write even-handed stories about even the most egregious attacks by the Left. The good ones should leave and NR should be put out of its misery.
It’s always been unreadable.
NR saw those evil MAGA hats and had to pile on. Other than NeverTrumpers who reads that dumpster fire anyway?
It just reaffirms how out of touch the average GOP hack really is with main street.
Lowry has to go. He has a history of virtue signaling and jumping the gun without checking the facts. I recall his doing this to George Zimmerman, who, in self defense, shot Treyvon Martin while he was pounding Zimmerman’s head into the pavement. Zimmerman was later acquitted in a trial that never should have been held.
“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.
this is two strikes, they better shape up because they are in a severe decline.