Posted on 05/31/2019 2:52:38 PM PDT by Ennis85
So Rich beat me to the punch, right as I was writing this. Yes, this is my last day at National Review. While I’m excited about my new venture, I can’t say this isn’t a profoundly melancholy moment for me. I’ve been at NR longer than I’ve been married. Far longer than I’ve been a father. It’s been the lodestar of my professional and much of my personal life for 21 years. I talk about it in today’s G-File and there’s info there for how to follow what comes next. But since the Corner was such a big part of my life, I felt — feel — like I should say something here. It’s not quite “farewell” — I’m staying friends with everybody (I hope!) and I’m going to stay a fellow at NRI too. Heck, I may even submit something for the Corner from time to time, if Charlie or Rich will allow it. But it is a kind of ending. And I want to mark it not by blubbering — though there’s a little of that on my end, damn allergies — but by just saying thank you. Thank you first to Rich, for hiring me and being my friend. Thank you to Ramesh (my closest Vulcan friend) and Kathryn (who made me look so much more competent when I was running NRO), to Jim Geraghty, Jack Fowler, Charlie Cooke, Kevin Williamson, David French (the subject of my final NR G-File!), Andy McCarthy, Jay Nordlinger, Russ Jenkins, Chris McEvoy, Lindsay Craig, Rick Brookhiser, Dan McLaughlin, Jason Steorts, Nick Frankovich, and so many others including the young’ns such as Nat Brown, Mark Wright, Sarah Schutte, Theodore Kupfer, Alexandra DeSanctis, and Marlo Safi (some of whom I really only know from email and bylines!).
Also, even though they’re not with us anymore, thank you to: William F. Buckley, the godfather of conservatism, a man I was so blessed to know; the glorious Kate O’Beirne, the Den Mother of the American Right, who taught me so much; Dusty Rhodes, one of the most decent people I’ve ever met; and Mike Potemra the sweetest polymath who ever drew breath. I am so grateful to them all.
Now, I could reminisce about airborne-laser volcano-lancing and other glorious memories all day. But I said no blubbering. So thank you to everyone. You, and this place, have meant the world to me.
JG peaked about 2008 with “Liberal Facism”, then he turned into the poster boy for Conservative Inc.
Just stopping by to say I don’t read him.
Good riddance you POS.
Sadly, with the election of Trump Jonah lost his sense of humor.
Good riddance.
He was never more than a Bill Kristol wannabe. The election of Trump ruined his gig.
No thank you Jonah. You provided us a deep look into the psychosis of a swamp rat on the DC payroll.
Guy can’t write worth crap. Vastly overrated.
Jonah, You won’t be missed.
Sad about the National Review. Definitely became part of the Washington establishment and like the others saw Trump as a real threat to the status quo which they no longer opposed. William F. Buckley would have never been satisfied with a little magazine that was granted its own little patch of the swamp. He would have recognized Trump’s potential for what it is and would never had let the NR become a nest of never Trumpers and globalists. People who at their core care little about the American nation and its heritage.
BYE, pos!
Off to an honest living down at the brake and muffler shop?
More WINNING!
BINGO
Don’t let the screen door hit you, where the Good Lord split you!
Everyone is in tears here. It’s like the room was full of smoke.
Oh, H-ll! The bacon is burning up in the frypan!
JG, we’ll miss the writer you once were. When you figure it out, you are welcome back on my computer screen.
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