Posted on 01/27/2019 5:57:37 PM PST by Coleus
I was on to them years ago, but for all but the deliberately obtuse, it was clear in 2016 that they were not on the side of the citizens.
Yet, there still is Victor Davis Hanson, who often writes for them.
I am always amazed how Trump has “exposed” people like this. Many, we thought, were on “our” side. So many were against us, and they just keep dying off. Love him to death, but even Krauthammer got caught up in this. Trump has put a bright light in very dark places. (Thank you Mr. President!)
It is very very very sad that this should be the legacy of WFB and kith and kin may they RIP.
He is the only one there worth reading.
VDH is good, but he was as much a Trump basher as anyone at NR. Until he acknowledges and apologizes for his poor judgement, unless he’s just a band-wagoner, I give him little credence.
LOVED NR when it was WFB.
Now diseased.
VDH and Andrew McCarthy get out now!
Add it to the list, Weekly Standard, Drudge Report, Red State, now NRO. We deplorables just aren’t smart enough to run with these azzholes.
He’s probably the only NR writer I do read. When I see something by him, I read it... but usually I see it as a link. I don’t read the National Review as a source, say the way I read FR, or the Wall Street Journal.
Nicholas Frankovich would be wise to hire a lawyer experienced in defending against libel suits.
Andrew McCarthy is often worth reading, but he too can be slow on the uptake.
He writes lots of places - doesn’t need that rag.
I wonder if Rich Lowery is handing his jacket to Bill Kristol and saying “ Here Billy old boy and watch this”. Both seem to suck huuughly!
The biggest problem with the Covington thing is that nothing happened that should have been national news in the first place. These kids did nothing to deserve any coverage at all, good or bad. Go to any school basketball game and you will see much worse behavior. If the indian guy hadn’t turned out to be such a lying slimeball, this would have been a career killer for these kids.
Need to start putting information together on all known “liberal activists” - bet virtually every one of them is an evil slimeball in real life. Immediately tar them with the truth whenever they get uppity.
Next American Spectator ...I hope.
VDH has been very supportive of President Trump this past year. I really really like him/ one of the best.
I’ve been thinking about all the lessons flowing out of the Covington Catholic story, and there are lots of them to follow.
The NR part would be important if NR were still important, but it hasn’t been for years.
There is one important point to be made, though.
To react as they did, to a “story” which amounted to an unsupported smear, so fast and so viciously - you have to have already classified the (unknown to you) subjects of the smear as “enemy”.
THAT is the only part of the NR story that’s in any sense important. White Christian children who go to Catholic school and who oppose abortion are, to Rich Lowry, David French, Jonah Goldberg, and the rest, “enemy”. Born guilty, they are.
And you are, too.
The Covington thing was hyped by the media to take the Buzzfeed story off the public’s mind.
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