Trump Blasts National Review
National Review,
by
Jack Crowe
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/18/2022 7:28:19 PM
Former president Donald Trump ripped into National Review on Friday, arguing that it is a magazine without any remaining influence in an official statement issued along with an image of his 2024 campaign logo.
“Why does anyone read the National Review. They are so negative to Conservatives and me, and are seen as being led by lightweights that couldn’t shine the shoes of Bill Buckley. They have absolutely nothing going, it is failing fast, and my only question is, who is paying for the losses — when it loses plenty of money and serves no purpose at all. People are tired of haters —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 11/18/2022 7:28:43 PM (No. 1337172)
Well for a failing, ineffective magazine they certainly got under his skin. He's refighting 2016. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars of free advertising for the magazine!
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I knew there was a reason I liked National Review.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/18/2022 7:31:59 PM (No. 1337178)
And we’re off to the races. Not arguing with what he said, but why? What’s the point? To rile the cultists, I suppose.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/18/2022 7:39:49 PM (No. 1337186)
I subscribed for decades. I didn't drop it because of Trump, and dropped it well before it described Mitt Romney as a "man of honor and integrity." Tank, meet NR.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DougTN 11/18/2022 7:40:47 PM (No. 1337188)
To be fair National Review hasn’t been worth much since WFB passed away.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/18/2022 8:33:26 PM (No. 1337216)
Former Speaker John Boehner described leading his caucus as "herding cats." Far better, and more American, to be a party of cats than a party of robots who get elected to Congress in order to vote as a bloc in support of bills of more than a thousand pages that need to be "passed first so that you can know what's in it." At least our party thinks and debates freely, and does not unanimously repeat verbatim each day's talking points. You do not have to agree with NR in order to appreciate its independence.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 11/18/2022 9:15:01 PM (No. 1337231)
I learned conservatism from National Review.
I learned how much contempt the Establishment had for working-class conservatives from Trump.
I vote for Trump more often than I visit NR's website.
Jonah Goldberg was forced to leave NR when it was revealed he took money from Big Tech in return for NR not reporting on Big Tech was de-platforming Trump supporters. And Jonah "Benedict Arnold" Goldberg...took the money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 11/18/2022 9:18:59 PM (No. 1337234)
I learned conservatism from WFB!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 11/18/2022 9:23:46 PM (No. 1337237)
I dunno. I spent a whole lotta time that should have spent better understanding organic chem reading back issues of national review in the library of a once great Jesuit institution. I would strongly encourage every self impressed contributor to that once great magazine to do the same just to understand how principled and and influential it was and how much they have squandered.
Buckley, Whittaker Chambers et al understood the role of that publication and the influence it had. It shaped us. Like Paul Harvey. Rush.
And now the primary function is a clubby little group of under achieving Ivy League snobs who lack the courage, the intellect, the humor, and the appreciation of what came before them but love the prestige of anti Trump celebrity status. A cult all to itself.
My guess is the next episode is themed as another collection of I hate Trump articles and DJT isn’t going to stand still and let these pukes get a free swing that they have planning for years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/18/2022 10:17:56 PM (No. 1337254)
WFB was NR. And vice versa. Everyone on this site knows it. Their anti-Trump edition was the last nail.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 11/18/2022 11:07:54 PM (No. 1337274)
Bill Buckley would have been ashamed of the present National Review.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 11/18/2022 11:32:12 PM (No. 1337287)
Heh, heh . . . and millions in free advertising for Trump, right #1 ??!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy 11/18/2022 11:50:37 PM (No. 1337298)
NR has been gone for a long time. Trump …don’t waste your time on them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/19/2022 12:11:49 AM (No. 1337305)
enough has been said already on this, I pass
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Here is a fun factoid from the Way Back Machine. Back when the National Review Magazine had a conservative spine, I remember the end of an episode of Magnum P.I. At the very end the main character was perched on a beach chair and was holding up, making sure everyone could see, the latest edition of National Review. By then Tom Selleck was such a significant star the powers that be could not protest or organize an effective boycott. It's a shame what National Review has become..
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
andyboy 11/19/2022 8:01:51 AM (No. 1337456)
The has-beens at NR are giddy that Trump even noticed them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
philsner 11/19/2022 8:02:06 AM (No. 1337457)
So #3, anyone who supports Trump is a "cultist"? You mean the "cult" of full employment, a good economy, and seeing China for the Communists that they are? That cult?
I'm a member of that "cult". You can have Pierre Delicto.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rosefenn 11/19/2022 9:53:41 AM (No. 1337559)
Yes, #10, I remember that anti-Trump issue. I had subscribed for years. When I took that issue out of the mailbox, I was stunned! I carefully tore off the cover, circled my address in black Sharpie marker, and wrote. "Please cancel my subscription" on it. Then I mailed it to the editorial offices. I had been reading the magazine for 30 years at that point, & I loved NR. I never looked back.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2022 10:05:33 AM (No. 1337586)
I blast NR, too. NR is a rotten, worthless mess, and nothing that they put out can be taken at face value.
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