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2018-04-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

What the Firing of Kevin Williamson Says About American Media

[PJ] Kevin D. Williamson left the relatively safe space of National Review for the combative liberal environs of The Atlantic. I'm not sure why he made that move, but he did. He stepped out from the right-of-center media sphere and into the lockstep mainstream sector.

It did not go well for him.

Almost immediately after his hiring was announced, the baying hounds of Leftism wanted blood. So they found a statement from Williamson suggesting that women who get abortions should be hung, as he believes the law should charge abortion as capital murder.

He said it years ago, well before his hiring by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Since his hiring, Williamson went fairly dark on social media. He wasn't saying anything, much less anything controversial. None of that mattered, though.

Yesterday, Williamson was fired.

Goldberg explained his decision in a memo:

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-07 03:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 1) No deviationism from Party Line will be tolerated.
2) Nobody knows what the Party Line is at any given time.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-07 04:33|| 2018-04-07 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 There is no compromise with the Left, they only accept surrender. The lines are drawn, the bridges are burned. Their minds, like those of the terrorists, are close.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-07 09:15|| 2018-04-07 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Uhhh..., you just noticed that leftists are hypocrites?
Like the part about, somebody else has to change what they're doing because everything isn't perfect?

Posted by ed in texas 2018-04-07 10:42|| 2018-04-07 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Notice all the hand wringing by the "conservative" commentariat when it's one of the their own that gets gored?

Yet now the deplorables are all supposed to come to the aid of people who were pissing all over us.

As all Good Little Troo Conservativezomg! should know, rewarding (or failing to punish) bad behavior just leads to more of the same.

Leaping to the defense of the likes of Williamson simply guarantees more cuckservative betrayal.

Posted by charger 2018-04-07 11:03|| 2018-04-07 11:03|| Front Page Top

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-07 11:36|| 2018-04-07 11:36|| Front Page Top

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