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Parting Ways [National Review fires John Derbyshire!]
NRO ^ | 2012-04-07 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 04/07/2012 4:24:15 PM PDT by cartan

Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: derb; derby; derbyshire; girlymen; johnderbyshire; nationalreview; nr; nro; racerealism; realism; richlowry; truth
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What a contemptible little coward! Now Mark Steyn is the last good writer there. Reminds me of when they fired Ann Coulter shortly after 9/11.
1 posted on 04/07/2012 4:24:22 PM PDT by cartan
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To: cartan

Lowry is a pussy. This shows how weak that magazine has become since Buckley died. Screw You NR.


2 posted on 04/07/2012 4:27:20 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: cartan

I read the Derbyshire article. It was honest.

The Kenyan lizard’s pimp pimp Holder would be impressed.

NR is worthless and weak.


3 posted on 04/07/2012 4:30:19 PM PDT by y6162
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To: cartan
Worm!

You can't handle the truth!

4 posted on 04/07/2012 4:30:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: cartan

America is a failed state.

We will never get over the issue of slavery.

Blacks bring it up for cash and power and Whites accept it.

No conservative site, or discussion forums are able to challenge Jessie, Al or Farrakhan.

America must fold and start anew.


5 posted on 04/07/2012 4:30:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Anybody but Obama, because it's not always about me. Thank God McCain/Palin lost! - Right?)
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To: cartan

You must never tell the truth about Eric Holder’s people.


6 posted on 04/07/2012 4:33:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
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To: cartan

National Review descends from the gutter to the sewer.

I no longer visit them, because I don’t want to give them any hits.


7 posted on 04/07/2012 4:35:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: cartan

I don’t agree with Ann Coulter much anymore, but she nails it right on when she refers to these guys as “The Girly Boys at NRO”


8 posted on 04/07/2012 4:36:37 PM PDT by Reddon
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To: cartan
''There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life,'' Jesse Jackson said several years ago, ''than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/the-color-of-suspicion.html?pagewanted=5

9 posted on 04/07/2012 4:37:44 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Anybody but Obama, because it's not always about me. Thank God McCain/Palin lost! - Right?)
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To: cartan

F*** that.

National Review needs to go away and Breitbart needs his own mag.

Someone make it happen because screw all that Romney-pimping and Cain/Newt bombing.


10 posted on 04/07/2012 4:38:36 PM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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Derbyshire’s article sounded like common sense to me. I’m sure an Afro-American could pen an equally reasonable list of cautionary rules to use when dealing with a surfeit of Caucasoids. National Review seems to have lost its rudder. When my subscription is done, so am I.


11 posted on 04/07/2012 4:41:10 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: y6162

I cant find the article ...is there a link to it?


13 posted on 04/07/2012 4:43:29 PM PDT by woofie (It takes three villages and a forest of woodland creatures to raise a child in Obamaville)
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To: cartan

Coward is right.

NRO seems to have disabled comments on Lowry’s two posts about Derb.


14 posted on 04/07/2012 4:44:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: cartan

This is “Breaking News”?


15 posted on 04/07/2012 4:45:41 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: cartan

NRO=Electronic toilet paper


16 posted on 04/07/2012 4:46:09 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

” Lowry is a pussy. This shows how weak that magazine has become since Buckley died. Screw You NR.”

WFB = RIP

Lowry was never born : )


17 posted on 04/07/2012 4:47:13 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: cartan

Now, I have fired the NRO. Over the years, I have been going there less and less. They are more interested in the approval of the msm than writing the truth. I will not miss going there.


18 posted on 04/07/2012 4:51:05 PM PDT by Essie
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To: cartan

What did the writer say in order to get fired? Did he finally discuss race?


19 posted on 04/07/2012 4:54:57 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: woofie

To be exact, this is what I read..a commentary...couldn’t find the original myself...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/04/why-john-derbyshire-hasnt-been-fired-yet/50803/


20 posted on 04/07/2012 4:55:02 PM PDT by y6162
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