Posted on 07/29/2019 4:10:04 PM PDT by detective
“Where’s Joseph Sobran when you need him?”
Yes, and John Derbyshire.
Funny, I used to look forward to getting it in the mail every couple of weeks.
They've just become insufferable.
Nordlinger, Williamson, Goldberg - they're the worst of a stable of never-Trumpers at NR. Pathetic.
People focused on border security always saw through them because they have always been uncompromising advocates of not doing even so much as filtering out known rapists and murderers.
And those of us intent on that issue have called them out on it here on this forum for decades.
1. John Nolte is a secular libertine, not a moral conservative. Any assertion by him on such matters must be viewed with that in mind. This is a man who reveres, nay worships, Woody Allen and Quentin Tarentino, and who thinks that Jim Rockford is the most American character in teevee history (not someone more noble and moral, or more Christian, or more like one of the Founding Fathers).
2. William Buckley was an elitist snob. I read National Review as a boy, and watched Firing Line. He was intelligent and articulate, although verbose, but I always found his intellectual snobbery off-putting. He effectively banned the John Birch Society from the Republican Party; that act by him was cited by NeverTrumpers as the example and validation for banning Trump voters as well.
3. The JBS and Joseph McCarthy have been far more validated by subsequent actual history than any of the Rockefeller or Buckley type of beltway snobs. I seriously doubt Buckley would have jumped on the Trump Train on Day One.
John O’Sullivan was a legendary National Review editor (1988-1997) and a former speech writer for Margaret Thatcher.
According to O’Sullivan:
“All organizations that are not consciously Conservative will become left-wing over time.”
I had no idea if it were true or not....but it’s “her” version.
NR is funded by the likes of Google through its “foundation.” Their paid chattering class buffoons are little more reliable than Fake News CNN at this point.
While in his 20’s, Buckley founded the National Review with a handful of ex-communists and his brother in law.
NR was unique. It literally was the only Conservative publication for years. NR’s editors defined modern conservatism and Brent Bozell wrote Conscience of a Conservative. NR was a major influence on Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. NR was a leader in conservative thought for decades.
Today NR is dishonest, hypocritical and useless.
They parrot the MSM in their attacks on President Trump and their attacks on the Covington kids.
It is a shame that such a great magazine has been destroyed.
With the exception of a handful of fine people at NR, that mag is an absolute joke. Its a shame that what some people there have stooped so low.
He was kicked to the curb.
So was Buchanan.
So was John Derbyshire.
Three great, original, conservative voices deplatformed before deplatforming was a thing.
“In July of 2013, the National Review published a massive 1500 word article praising Jeffrey Epstein.
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.”
It is impossible that someone researching a long article on Epstein in 2013 could not have known about his sexual abuse of underage girls. It is impossible that someone reviewing the article for publication could not have known.
Here are Epstein’s well publicized activities prior to 2013.
In March 2005, a woman contacted Florida’s Palm Beach Police Department and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Epstein’s mansion by an older girl. She was paid $300 to strip and massage Epstein.
Police began an investigation of Epstein. The police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Five victims and 17 witnesses testified, some of the girls involved were under age. The police search of Epstein’s home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed.
Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his property to record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes, such as blackmail. Epstein pimped out the girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information.
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed an affidavit saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one rape count.
After reports that Epstein would be charged with only one count of aggravated assault with no intent to commit a felony, Palm Beach Police accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry Krischer, of being too lenient and possibly complicit. Epstein was charged with a single charge of solicitation of prostitution, to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.
Alexander Acosta, then the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Epstein’s attorneys agreed to a plea deal. It was signed on September 24, 2007.
Acosta said he had been told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence”, was “above his pay grade” and to “leave it alone”.
Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state prostitution charges, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 36 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution that could have seen him jailed for the rest of his life.”
On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Epstein served almost 13 months before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.
In January 2011, after a hearing and appeal, Epstein remained registered in New York State as a “level three” (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.
The woman who wrote the article was working for Epstein and trying to give him a positive reputation.
But as for the magazine, they didn't necessarily make the connection. Somebody who donated money to the magazine could have said, Christina Galbraith and her family have been friends and supporters of the magazine for years and given the article to the editor to publish. He passes it on to an underling without really reading it and says that it's important to find a place for it in the magazine, and the ignorant and scared underling - or some under-underling or under-under-underling finds room for it.
I wasn't there, of course, but it's a plausible scenario and the sort of thing that happens a lot in publishing. I've been seeing these articles about Bill Clinton's pedophile friend for years, but until this recent story broke in the last view weeks, I couldn't have told you his name. I suspect an intern at the magazine might know even less.
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