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How I Murdered The Weekly Standard |
2021-08-21 |
By Emerald Robinson [EmeraldDB3Substack] Three years ago, I wrote an essay on “The Collapse of the Never Trumpers" that caused quite a stir. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show, while Nigel Farage congratulated me in the halls of Parliament. Hundreds of people wrote me "thank you" notes. The haughty Never Trumpers, not so much. My modest proposal was that the 3% of Republicans who never approved of President Trump should stop pretending that they were spokesmen for the 97% of Republicans who did. In the corporate media, where 97% of that 3% were keeping a high profile on cable news, the distortions became preposterous. This seemed to me elementary logic. But for the tiny group of delusional Never Trumpers, my modest proposal fell on them like a ton of bricks. In the end, my essay ignited a kind of public war among conservative intellectuals that helped to bring down the neocons and the Never Trumpers in the media. Not only did the Weekly Standard shut down, but the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg, and the neocon's peewee prince Bill Kristol went to work for Democrats - all in six months. How did that happen? They had no base of support outside of the Beltway, and they were in willful denial about their own unpopularity. This dynamic was obvious at all levels of media, but let's take a high visibility example: the old panel at Fox New's Special Report with Bret Baier. Now, Bret Baier is obviously a very quiet Never Trumper but if you stacked your daily panel with Stephen Hayes, A. B. Stoddard, and Jonah Goldberg and these were the “conservative” pundits you picked to defend President Trump's policies then it's obvious what Bret was doing. A week or so after my essay appeared, I got a very short and shrill phone call from one of Bret's staffers - who was a rabid Hillary Clinton supporter, no less. When I picked up the call, she was angry and breathless and did not want to do small talk. She said: "You don't know what you've done, you don't understand the damage you've caused to this show." I asked her to calm down, and be specific. She hung up instead. Read the rest at the link Related: Never Trumper: 2021-08-17 Our Military Is A Woke Joke Never Trumper: 2021-08-16 NBC News complains the GOP has 'seized' on 'optical comparison' of the fall of Kabul and Saigon Never Trumper: 2021-08-12 Wyoming GOP County Parties Start Bailing on Liz Cheney With Trumpian Send Off: 'You're Fired!' Related: Weekly Standard: 2020-07-16 From Lincoln Project filing. You have to keep a close eye on donors - Pierre Omidyar‘s project - registered Russian agent Weekly Standard: 2020-04-08 Based on Tax Filings, Bill Kristol's Been a Democrat for Years Weekly Standard: 2020-02-27 Embarrassing Festival Of Never Trump Losers Occurs For Some Reason Related: Jonah Goldberg: 2021-02-04 Netanyahu hires ex-Breitbart journalist as campaign chief Jonah Goldberg: 2021-02-03 New Defense secretary reportedly boots Pres. Trump picks from Pentagon boards Jonah Goldberg: 2020-12-26 Jonah Goldberg, a useful idiot for the left Related: Bill Kristol: 2021-05-01 'Disgusting' robocall accuses Texas candidate Wright of causing husband's death Bill Kristol: 2021-02-11 Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party Bill Kristol: 2020-07-16 From Lincoln Project filing. You have to keep a close eye on donors - Pierre Omidyar‘s project - registered Russian agent |
Posted by:badanov |
#5 A quibble. Jonah Goldberg still writes for NR upon occasion, and is hardly "out" of the conservative movement. In fact, his podcasts are quite enjoyable. |
Posted by: Secret Master 2021-08-21 18:03 |
#4 Congrats. No, seriously. Much more of this and you're gonna be in one of Larry Correa's MonsterHunter stories. (Zombies and all...) |
Posted by: ed in texas 2021-08-21 17:18 |
#3 nice catch, Bad |
Posted by: Frank G 2021-08-21 13:21 |
#2 "Indeed, a wipe out is exactly what conservatives who betrayed the conservative movement during the Trump Era deserved and they all bit the dust: Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, French, Frum, Sykes, Sabato, Charen, Ponnuru, Gerson, Noonan, Meachum, Boot, Brooks, Lowry, Scarborough, Stephens, Erickson and Rubin. It sounds like a list of demented reindeer. Their stockings will always be stuffed now with coal." |
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-21 08:04 |
#1 The leftist mind focuses on harm reduction as its only value. No wonder she was angry, he wrecked the show with his truth bombs. That she might be in the wrong doesn't occur to her, and neither does that other people might have different values. |
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-08-21 04:34 |