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Post by artraveler on Feb 13, 2020 11:39:16 GMT -8
I think it was William F. Buckley, who said "any organization given enough time will turn leftist". We must face the fact that this is not Buckley's NR. It has become a tool of the progressives to disorient, distract and confuse conservatives. The occasional article by true conservatives is merely a sop to keep subscriptions. At best you could say NR is a left of center publication, at worst a sell out.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 13, 2020 13:01:08 GMT -8
I was being kind, Mr. Kung, and was assuming they were simply being stupid, not greedy. But you could be right.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 13, 2020 13:08:26 GMT -8
Thank you, John Nolte, for stating what some of us already knew. But doing so at a much more visible site is very good indeed.
One gets the impression that there is no hand on the tiller at National Review. There are maybe three or four authors there worth reading. But the rest is a compendium of junk that makes American Thinker look thoughtful.
This is more than just disagreeing about an issue. I think there is something fundamentally wrong with Williamson. But there for the grace of God go all of, I suppose. Thus when I caution to keep an even keel and not go off half-cocked, just think of a new term for it: Don’t become Williamized. Or Goldbergized, for that matter.
It’s almost never a difference of opinion that bothers me. It’s the dishonesty that I can’t take.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 24, 2020 12:05:39 GMT -8
Here’s a good article by Nathanael Blake which mostly has my seal of approval. I love this bit: The whole thing is worth a read. How he frames the situation is probably pretty close to the truth:
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Post by timothylane on Feb 24, 2020 12:17:13 GMT -8
An impressive article that would be better if he also pointed out those victimized by leftist ideology -- such as the girls in various sports being trounced (in some fields, quite literally) by boys claiming to identify as girls. But no one has unlimited space.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 24, 2020 12:17:37 GMT -8
In other words, fight back. What a novel idea. Clearly, it is something the literary conservative cabal which included Goldberg, Frum, French and numerous others, have forgotten or not thought necessary.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 24, 2020 9:48:21 GMT -8
Here is further proof that Goldberg is dishonest, stupid or both. He is certainly no conservative.
Those in the "press" have always had an inflated view of their importance, but lately it makes the Goodyear Blimp look small.
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Post by timothylane on May 24, 2020 10:38:16 GMT -8
I just read an article on that interview on Town Hall. We bloggers had a lot of fun responding. TDS Goldberg thinks that the newsliars who smear Trump and disinform the public every day are sacrosanct, so Trump and McEnany are evil for talking back to their self-proclaimed betters. Goldberg prefers the tame GOP types who just take the abuse, never fight back, and end up losing.
I suspect this means that Goldberg's TDS is progressive (apt term), getting steadily worse as Trump and his team continue to embarrass polite (i.e., hoity-toity) society.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 26, 2020 9:07:15 GMT -8
Goldberg has certainly gone off the deep end.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 17, 2020 13:11:02 GMT -8
I am glad someone at The Federalist is calling out David French. Although the writer will not say it, I will. David French is at best a flaming hypocrite, but it is more likely that he is a wolf in sheep's clothing, i.e. only pretending to be a Christian. In this, he is like many "conservative" writers/pundits who are more interested in a book deal or getting on TV than actually doing anything to promote and further conservatism. Brad and I have been discussing this phenomenon since 2013. It started when the subject of Daniel Goldberg came up. David Phony French
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Post by timothylane on Jun 17, 2020 13:22:14 GMT -8
Oh, my. David French can look at the recent SCOTUS decision (unless he wrote before it), Demagogue persecution of Christian businesses that refuse to celebrate homosexual marriage, and states forced to back down on laws protecting women from sexually dysphoric men in sports, rape shelters, and bathrooms, and see Christians winning . . . He obviously lives in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 30, 2020 14:30:25 GMT -8
It looks like David French is at it again. I can't believe his Trump-Derangement-Syndrome is simply a result of principles. I wonder how much he is being paid for his betrayal of his "principles?" As they say, "Judas got 30 pieces of silver." What's that in inflation-rated dollars? Give me 100,000 abortions over Trump
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Post by timothylane on Aug 30, 2020 15:14:13 GMT -8
This is known as sophistry, and is common among leftists. It's clever but cynical argument designed to push a cause that can't be supported more honestly. These Never Trumpers have a choice between their principles and Orange Man Bad, and in the end the latter matters more to them. So they have to choose between the sophistry of David French or the total political invertion of Jenny Rubin and Max Boot (and earlier David "I'm a liar, trust me" Brock).
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 20, 2020 12:34:36 GMT -8
A nice piece by Roger Kimball which lays out how Trump is taking back the cultural battlefield. Kimball elegantly slips the knife into Jonah Goldberg and his ilk with the following.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 20, 2020 15:36:40 GMT -8
I couldn't agree more with this article. The writer shows what a bunch of bums reside at NRO. They all hated Trump's character so they backed someone with an even worse character. As I said before, NRO was taken over by globalist Wall Street interests when Buckley retired and sold it. NRO has got what it wished forI like some of the comments below the piece. Someone notes that the only person at NRO who is not a sell out is Victor David Hanson. Again, I couldn't agree more.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 20, 2020 17:26:13 GMT -8
The Hanson fan also noted the departures of Derbyshire and Steyn. In honor of the latter, I'll repeat the updated version of a Sinatra joke that made up his last words at NRO. Q: How do you make a fruit cordial? A: Be nice to him -- or else.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 8, 2021 14:55:59 GMT -8
The scoundrel French is at his lying-lick-spittle best in his most recent article telling us not to push back against CRT in schools. While I found the above quote very good, I am not sure French is only seeking a "Good boy" from the left. The man is not stupid. I figure he his more of an enemy working behind the lines of conservatives. He is like the mRNA "vaccines" that aren't vaccines, rather they are medical experiments. French is like the artificially produced spike protein which the elites tell us is good for us, but is proving to be very bad for many. French is doing his best to inject a deadly pathogen into the conservative body. Curse him and his fellow travelers. Here is the article from which I took the quote. The David French Disease
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 8, 2021 15:10:12 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 31, 2021 19:22:46 GMT -8
That is the closing paragraph of a wonderful piece, which confirms everything we have been saying about those whores Goldberg, French, the National Review, the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute and the rest of the "conservative" think tanks that have been the so-called "leading thinkers" of the conservative movement. I believe we now have a definition for "David Frenchism".... street walking or good old fashioned harlotry, in an intellectual sense at the very least. Then again, I guess Goldberg and French, as well as libertarians would make the case that being a whore is a conservative occupation. After all, one is exchanging a service for money. We all knew Goldberg and French were phonies
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Post by artraveler on Sept 1, 2021 6:16:05 GMT -8
Then again, I guess Goldberg and French, as well as libertarians would make the case that being a whore is a conservative occupation. I submit that there are more prostitutes who give fair value for their service than can be found among the ranks of political commentary, lawyers, politicians, and teacher unions. And when you walk away you have at least know why you were there.
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