Posted on 10/23/2001 8:57:10 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
I enjoyed the The American Spectator for years and will miss it. I knew they were on their last leg when they closed their personal website some months back now.
It's a sad day and a significant blow to the political voice of conservatism in America.
A lot of bookmarks I had to TAS articles won't work anymore either (including a really dandy one about Gene Lyons).
*Sigh* Don't know why I keep coming back to this thread. It sure is depressing.
Anybody want to form a support group?
Hopefully, another great conservative mag will come along...conservatives refuse to stay down!!!
Bill
What could have been a total nightmare--eight year reign of terror/tyranny--the liberal coup d et flap---turned out to be a lot fun--thrills--sorrows--joys--bump/crashes on the infoage rideway--shoot out. The best was Rush...especially the television show and his newsletter.
Long live the FR!!
I feel your pain. ;^)
Anybody want to form a support group?
You can still visit Emmett Tyrell and friends right here. For as long as it lasts.
I noticed that Byron York is now 'free lancing'(?) for Altantic Monthly. Not exactly a step to the right. But hey Byron, I understand. You gotta pay the bills, man. I mean, if your editor over at AM calls you up and tells you to drive a spike into the head of a former competitor (even if the same used to employ you and praised you to his readership), then you gotta do what you gotta do. Hell, you may even get to unleash a few petty jealousies while you take up the grudge that AM has had against them for years. If that's the case, then congratulaions, Byron, you'll make a fine whore. Forget all that do-goody-good crap about integrity and loyalty---the business of investigative journalism ain't no Sunday School class, pal.
But who knows? Maybe Byron IS undergoing a Brockian transformation. I seem to remeber when David Brick, er, I mean , uh, Brock (sorry for the Freudian slip, but his career has fallen like one) made his reverse metamorphosis from conservative butterfly to sh*t-eating left-wing maggot, he immediately became the darling of the liberal media establishment (as well as of the POTUS himself), suddenly worthy of their attention. Now he's barely a blip on the radar screen; but after they tire of buggering him for their purposes, D.B. will probably slither back into obscurity, or flip-flop back to being a conservative again (*sigh*). I HOPE B.Y. doesn't go that route.
As most here, I tend to flit around the different threads.......I've lingered here for the last 45 minutes.
Yes, this was a Byron York 'kiss-and-tell'.....but the story needed to be told. My subscription ran out 2 months ago.
I've still got all my old copies which will be wrapped and sealed, then lovingly placed in an attic box with a tear in my eye.
(I am no fan of the Atlantic Monthly, but I believe Byron York is a huge asset to his full-time gig at the National Review)
I really feel that any personal animosity existing between RET and BY probably stems from what I observed to be a diminished work output on BY's behalf at TAS in its final 18 months or so. Maybe it was just me, but did anyone else notice that York was being featured less and less in that time period? A far cry from his own 'glory days' at the mag when he was churning out investigative reports with great regularity. Perhaps he and Tyrrell had a parting of ways, so to speak. I could be wrong, but it sure seemed that there was an underlying subtext in BY's article that seemed to say, 'SCREW YOU, BOB!'. Paybacks can be a b*tch, and I think York handed Tyrrell a heaping hepling of it.
David Brock: "Hillary, Health-Care Marxist" (Before Brock gave up whatever self-respect he imagined he had.)
Byron York "White House Druggies" (Yes, Byron was there. . .)
"Hillary, the CIA & the Iraq Cover-up" (Hillary and CIA arms smuggling)
and on Clinton. . .
"FEELING HIS PAIN" (and sickenly, we must still feel his): 'You Won't Believe What He Plans to Do With Your Money Now'
Who will go there?
. . .oh, a small worth noting one-liner - "Tupac's Dead!"
Yes, add my voice to those who say a sad good-by to TAS. . .
"They threw away dozens of bound volumes". . .that really hurts. . .
American Spectator died a hero.
A fond farewell from another longtime subscriber and fan.What a shame and sad article to read.
It is the end of an era.
This is one of the saddest articles I have ever read on FR. I have been reading TAS since the 80's...
Tyrrell won my heart forever when he was interviewed in another magazine and said that Bill Clinton had the sex drive of a monkey in a zoo. I hope he can resurrect the old Spectator in some form...In the meantime I have my old issues, and my memories.
The truth is, everything and everybody, good or bad, that came into contact with Bill and Hillary Clinton were destroyed. But the Clintons didn't win this one, Bob, you did. Don't forget that...wherever you are. Because of you people know the truth about the Scum From Hope and forever the first sentence in all the history books will read:
Clinton, William Jefferson Blythe: Impeached 42nd President of the United States.
You rule!!!
The American Spectator was without a doubt the most entertaining conservative publication of the 90s. It had a great run, and I'm sorry to see the end of an era.
It's a sad day and a significant blow to the political voice of conservatism in America.
I've still got all my old copies which will be wrapped and sealed, then lovingly placed in an attic box with a tear in my eye.
Damned shame, that. Damned shame.........
"They threw away dozens of bound volumes". . .that really hurts. . .
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