For decades the National Review has been the de facto standard for conservatism in America. Many “great intellects” there have been the most outspoken Never Trumpers.
In this new podcast, four prominent National Review editors spend the first half hour chastise President Trump for his recent tweets, describing his actions as a major mistake. Coincidentally, this is the same view shared by everyone on the Left.
After watching this video and this one from two prominent YouTubers, you will immediately understand how naive and non-street savvy the National Review braintrust is.
They’ve been dead for years, ever since they gave Derb the boot for “The Talk”.
Don’t forget the young cockwomble with the twerpy moniker of Jason Lee Steorts who, as “editor in chief” of NR, drove Mark Steyn away with his public denunciation of a typically brilliant column Steyn had written.
Derp’s a weirdo racist. They had tolerated him for far too long.
It is the escalating snobbery of most self-styled Conservative journalists and pundits that continues to push them into irrelevance. Brooks, Frum, Coyne et al are far more comfortable with the champagne and canapes set than enduring beer and burgers with the likes of angry us.
They will never understand what some long-dead Greek said: far better to be man discontented than a hog contented.
The dietary preferences of the intellectuals has nothing to do with anything. Your bringing it up vindicates their contempt.
Noam chomsky must be grinning ear to ear.
Is Noam Chomsky still defending the Khmer Rouge? Just wondering.
Maybe Jane Fonda, or John Kerry has something to add too?
OT but from time to time even unrepentant commie stooges find a clue. Here’s Chumpsky on Russian collusion during the presidential election:
“I think it is so farcical that I barely even read the reports. It’s a joke.”
Yeah, but they always remain unrepentant, though. Don’t they. They don’t ever actually start working at undoing any of the damage they left in their wake.
If Chomsky is farming some cred by pointing out the obvious, it is only to make his next Walter Duranty project more successful.
Yes … he’s shaped a generational Death Squad unleashing Chomsky’s ANARCHIST playbook straight into the House of Rep.
Yep. I posted a link in the reader comments a day or two ago that covered this. I won’t repeat myself. You can pay attention the first time, or you miss it.
Man, I must be getting old but I simply cannot watch a youtube ranter for more than a minute or so. As an information medium youtube is good for visuals that add to the story, but the idea that watching some dufus talk in to his laptop for 13 minutes conveys anything more than I could get from a concise thousand word article, well, it’s ridiculous. My time is valuable and these ranters, even Sargon of Akkad, need to dial back their verbal diarrhea and get their points across in under 5 minutes.
That’s the same reason I seldom watch podcasts. With some exceptions, it’s a lazy and inefficient form of communication.
I can speed-read their written words in a small fraction of time …
Sorry Kate … I cannot stand listening to that Tim-dude drone on and on in his smarmy self-important style of speaking. Just give me a transcript to read, and I’ll decipher the one or two “points” he has to make in no time at all. His podcasts are exhausting!!
“Man, I must be getting old but I simply cannot watch a youtube ranter for more than a minute or so. ”
That makes two of us, bud….
Three.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
4
Make that 5. As much as I like what Bill Whittle has to say, he has a tendency to go on and on in his Bill Whittle Now sessions. When he originally started them, they were, maybe, 10 minutes long. Now they’re often more than 20.
Make that Four. I occasionally read Williamson, VDH and a few others. Too many Trumpsters have taken the position that “the critic of my idol is the enemy”. The so-called “right” is a wide field and tends to go into circular firing squad mode occasionally. “Conservatives” like Brooks, Frum, and Coyne are pretty much poseurs if not outright progressives, none of whom write for the NR. I cancelled my subscription when Steyn left them.
Never read National Review.
Read every column by Buckley, must say that the columns were provocative and smooth.
Used to read Goldberg, eventually it became the same thing over and over.
When Lowry took over it swung away from what it was to something else when he fired Derbyshire.
From that day on it became irrelevant to conservative ideas.
One thing to remember the NR writers and editors live, as all those that think they have the only licence on truth, in those circles. When they get out of town they again congregate in their cottages, summer houses or what have you, with the upper crust who are the media cartel.
They are friends with their supposed opponents, they would not want to insult them by speaking their mind.
They would be out of the circuit.
And that is the way it is.
It is a degeneration factor, an atrophy if you prefer of all things.
It as natural as climate change.
I don’t mind the National Review. There often print excellent articles.
People these days seem to insist on political orthodoxy, or they hate the forum forever. They resent a view that is not in strict accordance with their own. I say loosen up and broaden your reading. You might learn something.
Heh ..
Read The Communist Manifesto.
As you said broaden your reading.
Sure, read the Communist Manifesto. What intelligent person would critique something without first trying to understand it?
But the National Review is a far cry for communism. I think you would disagree with NR writers and editors on only a few points.
You are right of course.
Sarcasm doesn’t apply.
It’s not 4D chess, it’s just chess.
It’s Trump actually fighting back and going on offense and thinking strategically.
95% of the gutless wonder ‘conservative’ politicians think that fighting back consists of curling up in the fetal position and sucking their thumbs while begging forgiveness from idiots that hate them.
“It’s Trump actually fighting back and going on offense and thinking strategically.”
By alienating America even more.
2018 Midterms
The National Review GOPe’s are like an abused wife. They get beaten … over and over and over and over … but just can’t leave. They are so true to their Vows of ineffective checked-pant, country-club conservative decorum that they just stand there and … take it. Sorry, I have no interest in the opinions of self-abusers. They can all just sit in a corner and whack-off for all I care.
Ohhhh ! my! I expressed “crude” thoughts … oh my! the GOPe’s gotta cower and retreat from such “coarse” talk. Piss off … LOSERS!
The National Review is one of the reasons I quit answering “give me money!” letters from the republicans. I can take stupid from my own kind, but for how long? Eventually I moved to be a small “c” conservative, but even that moniker doesn’t rest comfortably on my head. I want my republic back.
For years the right listened to National Review. For years the right went nowhere and watched on the sidelines as the left torched western culture.
The along came Trump…….
Every organization eventually gets enmoled and destroyed by leftist parasites. Government organizations die the fastest, academic ones next, business ones after that, but eventually even avowedly and determined right wing organizations get enmoled and destroyed.
That’s why we must periodically disband every organization and start it over .
Gotta love these C-grade dips who seriously think that they know anything about strategy or tactics. They don’t so they live vicariously…through Trump. The 2018 midterms called: they want the ‘brilliant strategy’ of Trump back.