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2015-05-24 Home Front: Politix

National Review was the prototype for conservative commentary when it was founded by the great William F. Buckley back in 1955, and 60 years later it has managed to stay near the top of an ever-expanding digital pack of bloggers and pundits.

Obviously such a run could only happen if the first principles of such an institution were zealously guarded, and winsomely communicated by writers and thinkers uniquely unafraid to follow in Buckley's giant footsteps and tell it like it is.

Unfortunately, it appears those first principles aren't going to be as zealously guarded, let alone defended, as they once were. In a column written by managing editor Jason Lee Steorts, National Review apparently decided they didn't want social conservatives -- the third and largest leg of Reagan's famed three-legged stool -- to read their stuff anymore when they full-throated embraced the Rainbow Jihad.

And just like that a legacy marked by staring down Marxists both foreign and domestic is no more. National Review has been surrendered to America's Cultural Marxists. So much for the legacy founded by the man who gave us God and Man at Yale.

That takes some serious selling out.

This isn’t totally out of left field, though. Steorts began showing his true colors back in 2013 when he ran Mark Steyn – arguably one of the most courageous and entertaining conservatives of the last decade – out of National Review for daring to call the agenda of the Rainbow Jihad into question.

That agenda was still in its ‘How is my gay marriage going to affect your life?’ stage, but Steyn saw through the scam and said as much in his typically biting yet congenial way. Less than two years later we know Steyn to be a prophet, as businesses great and small are now forced to genuflect at the altar of homosexual hubris and pagan courts gone wild.

Posted by badanov 2015-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 It's just the most recent brick in the wall.

Watch PBS (Red-Green Show is OK) for awhile and observe the names of their "Sponsored By."

I'd love to see Henry Ford watching where his Ford Foundation $ are going.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-05-24 00:29|| 2015-05-24 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I've stopped reading national review when they've fired Derbyshire.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-24 05:41|| 2015-05-24 05:41|| Front Page Top

#3 ....Well, I'd listen to Steyn read and comment on the Yellow Pages. NR...haven't read them in years.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-05-24 08:41|| 2015-05-24 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the lefty intention and also a natural progression, it seems, for media to be captured by progressives. NR is going, Fox is going, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Breitbart under seige soon. It takes a strong editor to hold it off. Buckley RIP.

Posted by KBK 2015-05-24 09:09|| 2015-05-24 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 "Print is dead" - Eagon

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-05-24 09:58|| 2015-05-24 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 The real reason for Marriage is promotion of the Family.
Gay Marriage is a futile exercise.

Posted by newc 2015-05-24 12:18|| 2015-05-24 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Gramsci is laughing his ass off in Hell.

Posted by charger 2015-05-24 15:14|| 2015-05-24 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Rainbow jihad. Name seems to fit the group. But who would have known that these left jihadists would lie? My or my.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-24 19:59|| 2015-05-24 19:59|| Front Page Top

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