Posted on 07/29/2019 4:10:04 PM PDT by detective
The most effective way to spot The Indecent is to watch for those who incessantly peacock their own decency … which perfectly describes the increasingly reprehensible Never Trump publication National Review.
Granted, there are still a couple of interesting contributors over there, chiefly Victory Davis Hanson and Andrew McCarthy, but this in no way mitigates National Review’s indecency anymore than a couple of innocent men wrongfully convicted turn a state prison into a Boy Scout camp.
National Review’s fall has been breathtaking. What was once the premiere source of conservative thought has become one of the most hypocritical, anti-intellectual, feelings-first, and unethical troll sites around.
In just a few short years, many, including myself, went from respecting this indispensable outlet to hardly thinking about it at all… National Review is now like a housefly you only take notice of when it insists on buzzing in your face — an obnoxious insect.
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He must be turning over in his grave to see the magazine he created being turned into a weak, hypocritical, dishonest rag.
The National Review strongly opposed Trump when he was the nominee. They called the Covington High School kids racist and said they “Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross.”
In July of 2013, the National Review published a massive 1500 word article praising Jeffrey Epstein.
They have destroyed the great intellectual magazine that Buckley created.
I subscribed to NR for a while, back when Buckley was still around. I liked it. Lots of good stuff in it.
If I were to blame one person for its demise, it would be Jonah Goldberg. How the hell he got in such a position, only God knows.
His mother.
Once revered by FReepers. WTH happened to her?
They became a mouthpiece for the Cheap Labor Express supporting the Bush Plan for North Mexico(aka USA).
President Trump threatens to undo the life’s work of a generation of Republican office holders and hangers on.
Fundamentally transforming this country has been the largest project of both parties and Fedzilla for the last 30 years.
It’s now or never to save America.
We MUST replace the Bush League Republicans BEFORE they give away our country.
Andrew McCarthy is still a NeverTrumper...and the brightest IQ bulb in the pack.
“Goldberg was a prominent presence on the conservative website, Free Republic in the late 1990s, posting under the name “Trixie”. She and other conservatives, including Matt Drudge, left the site when the webmaster, in Goldberg’s words, “let all the Y2K, gun-nut, Jew-baiting crazies take over [the forum] and flame the plain-old conservatives.[32] She then founded her own website, “Lucianne.com...”
This is not your great grandfathers National Review.
Along with that other numbskull. Jeff Lowery? Rich? Something.
Brilliant smackdown by Nolte.
Rich Lowry, I think. Yeah, I agree. The place has become overrun by turkeys.
No question, it is far worse than it ever was. But Buckley was CIA from his Yale years and the NR was always something of controlled opposition. We just fell for it.
Only applies to twelve year olds and Ben Shapiro
A lot of revisionist history there.
I do remember her starting a total FR ripoff site.
I am sure their are unsavory dollars put into their foundation.
E.g., Jay Nordlinger is a big-time Bill Browder sycophant:
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/01/22/bill-browder-family-line-great-minds/
I hope you were not surprised.
I hope you were not surprised.
Where’s Joseph Sobran when you need him?
They probably didn't know he was the sex scandal guy when they published the article.
The author, "science writer" Christina Galbraith, was apparently working as Epstein's publicist.
She was also the daughter of Evan Galbraith, a good friend of Bill Buckley.
Yes, it's damning that they'd just put the thing in the magazine, but it's also the sort of thing that happens in publishing.
Sooner or later it will happen at Breitbart, if it hasn't already.
About the time I had had enough of National Review was when I discovered Free Republic.
I use to enjoy John Derbyshire on The Corner. I predicted they would fire him, and it happened. Too conservative and thoughtful for the prissy boys at National Review.
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