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.
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.
LOVED NR when it was WFB.
Now diseased.
VDH and Andrew McCarthy get out now!
Nicholas Frankovich would be wise to hire a lawyer experienced in defending against libel suits.
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.
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.
National Review has been further exposed, as many have, as unthinking, uncritical, knee jerk, and unprincipled.
The National Review has been dead for years now having succumbed to an auto-immune disease wherein it was destroying itself. They just haven’t buried its rotting corpse yet which still emits evil, noxious and foul-smelling “fumes”.
Its burial is long overdue.
I had not heard about this “Kevin Williamson” before, and what an issue for that quote to wind up in.
Virtually all of my family and friends are the people he ripped. He doesn’t know them, and he bludgeoned them.
And Rich Lowery gladly added that to the rest of the NR writers l, hoping to impugn Trump by belittling his supporters.
I want these writers to feel terrible pain.
They skulked over to the enemy camp several years ago. A useless, senescent bunch of pretentious bores.
looks like NR can be added to the libel lawsuit list for L. Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry,attorneys for Nick Sandmann ...
I gave up on National Review in 2006. Cancelled my subscription.
William Buckley set the pattern - cited by the Neocons since Trump announced - of ostracising the elite-unapproved: He effectively banished the John Birchers.
I am well aware that many on this forum share his view - and I could not care less. The JBS types have been slandered and libeled for decades by the Neocons, but like Joe McCarthy they were right more than any admitted.
(No, I am not one. I simply despise intellectual elitism and bigotry, including by the vaunted WFB.)
kids who attended the March for Life