Posted on 01/23/2019 10:54:02 PM PST by OddLane
To his credit, National Review editor Rich Lowry has apologized more than once for his and the publication’s initial response to the flap at the Lincoln Memorial involving the kids from Covington Catholic. He has much to apologize for.
In his initial response, without any apparent fact checking, Lowry commended the knee-jerk mea culpa of the Covington diocese, tweeting, “A necessary and appropriate apology.”
In a later tweet, having seen just a little bit of the video, Lowry still felt obliged to condemn the “obnoxious, dumb, and disrespectful behavior of the teens.”
National Review’s deputy managing editor, Nicholas Frankovich, meanwhile weighed in with his own piece, grotesquely titled, “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross.” In it Frankovich describes the boys as “evil.”
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The whole rag should be shut down.
They have become nothing more than pathetic, gutless virtue signalers.
The only reason there has been any apology at all is the blatant social media proof their NR was flat.out wrong.
If there had not been video proof to the contrary, regardless if it was true or not, no author at NR would have apologized.
They just got caught.
Maybe there will be a fat payout from Soros to the staff at NR soon, or not.
WND still with the annoying pop-up ads, but Cashill seems always worth the read.
Buckley rag was CIA controlled opposition from the start and I wonder whether that is what it still is. And just who donates how much to their opaque “foundation”.
Meanwhile, their idiot editor’s apology is of course a non-apology apology. Simply saying his words were too strong—and not that he ran with the liberal media fake story, when the evidence is now clear that the boys indeed were innocent.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/an-apology/
Planted stories are nothing new; political operatives have been doing that for generations.
What's new is gathering an instant audience, through Internet social networks, to spread the story far and wide before honest news people--and there are still a few, I think--have a chance to do cursory fact-checking.
Such was the case with the video clip that set off the inflammatory accusations, criticism and denunciation of the Covington boys who were at the Lincoln Memorial waiting for a bus.
National Review at one time was a respected journal of conservative thought. That time was in the late '50s and into the '80s. It was never a news magazine as such; it couldn't, being a bi-weekly with a rather long editing cycle.
No doubt the magazine and its founder/benefactor, William F. Buckley, Jr., were instrumental in getting Ronald Reagan elected President, and Goldwater the '64 Republican nominee before that. Politics was its primary theme, commentary on society a close second. It had some good writers who didn't shy away from the label of conservative, among them some former Trotskyites who had seen the light. Regardless of their often questionable backgrounds, NR's editors and contributors stimulated many conservatives' brain cells with their columns and articles. It was the best, since there was no conservative-oriented competition for a long time, until some upstart at Indiana started publishing an alternative, The American Spectator.
It's too bad we don't have a dozen or more right-leaning political magazines, but that's unlikely these days. Print magazines are destined to go the way of the buggy-whip.
That would require asses to roll, as well, because, well, need I say more? Thanks OddLane.
Rich Lowry, the epitamey of “Knee-jerk” and “self-jerk”.
I was preachy and rhetorically excessive, and I regret it.
You weren't just "excessive," you were flat wrong to blame the kids.
Let this apology stand in its stead, both here on the Corner and in the memory of readers who justifiably objected to my high-handedness.
That is not an apology to the kids you slandered.
Frankovich really does not get it. I think NR will lose many readers over this.
The problem is that when really mind-blowing theories appear in isolation without any support from other accepted sources in the media (Andy McCarthy excepted), such theories are relegated to the fringe.
I think Cashill is probably right about both flight 800 and Bill Ayers, but he is a voice crying in the wilderness.
I have followed Cashill for years and have even spoken with him through blog I once owned many years ago. He is solid as a rock and so is his research.
But if you need any greater evidence of my claim above about how little power such detective work has when proclaimed from one isolated corner of the universe, look no further than the fact that Cashill is published almost exclusively by WND.
They are race cucks
We have them here too
I was a 30 year NR subscriber. Fowler was a neighbor of mine. Our fallout began when NR turned against the Tea Party. turned bitter with NR endorsement of milk toast Mitt and the final break when NR printed a hit job on the Donald.
Cahill is right. NR is paralyzed by the race card and is useless in both the cultural and political revolution upon us. I hope it closes too.
It seems NR is doing whatever it’s doing between now and Friday to ensure it appears they have acted within the deadline to avoid threatened legal action, as detailed in multiple other articles already posted. The plaintiffs, i.e. those kids who were merely awaiting a bus, may decide this is enough, however mealy-mouthed and left-handed we believe it to be. As for me, mark me down in the column that finds NR to be worthy of only derision and a Billy Madison Award: “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Agreed.
They have been thoroughly exposed for the last three years. McCarthy and Hansen are their only contributors worth anything.
The three writers u mentioned can always write for another publication.
Shut NR down.
Yes. Speaking of fringe theories. I’m still a birther.
It’s ridiculous that Obama could not produce a birth certificate and the left’s furious campaign to smear birthers as crazies is evidence that Obama was vulnerable on the issue.
Even today, Michelle is still talking about pissed she is about the Donald questioning Obama’s birth certificate which prodded Obama to produce a forgery.
It would be great if the Donald revived a birther investigation and exposed Obama and Pelosi’s treason. Sh certified his eligibility to be president.
Don’t forget, we’re all dumber for having read it.
When William F Buckley Senior died, National Review died shortly after. National Review today is part of the Republican Swamp.
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