April
11th 2012
Freedom of speech …
HarrisonBergeron2

Posted under National Review & Political Correctness

… must be a wonderful thing. We wouldn’t know about that here in the DC Empire, since questioning egalitarian orthodoxy gets you fired. The latest victim is Robert Weissberg of National Review. Here’s uber-weenie Rich Lowry announcing Weissberg’s firing, and here’s Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs clucking with glee.

What can we do? If you subscribe to National Review, cancel your subscription.

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4 Responses to “Freedom of speech …”

  1. Matt Weber on 11 Apr 2012 at 2:38 pm #

    According to Conor Friedorsdorf, the bulk of NR’s subscriptions are over-the-hill cold warriors. Only about 20% are under 50. Just give it about 30 years.

  2. James on 11 Apr 2012 at 3:21 pm #

    National Review is irrelevant and has been for quite some time now. Only in the beltway is it still seen as some kind of vanguard of Conservative opinion. Nonetheless, I think what the latest round of purges signify is that the neocon establishment are circling the wagons a bit more, hoping to cement a cohesive identity that will make it, in their view at least, easier to be viewed as the “respectable” right by their ruling class leftist friends. After all, its those people who control academia, the media and government bureaucracies and if Rick Lowry and the gang want to be invited back on TV or get their latest book published they know they have to go along to get along. This is nothing new, of course, but its perhaps best seen as further proof that the “Conservative Movement” has fractured, that it has really simply collapse and that it is not accurate to speak of a movement anymore. In the long analysis, the neocons have accomplished their goal. They destroyed movement conservatism.

  3. Mike Tuggle on 11 Apr 2012 at 4:57 pm #

    Matt Weber,

    Sorry, but I can’t wait that long. Ecrasez l’enfame!

  4. Mike Tuggle on 11 Apr 2012 at 5:00 pm #

    James,

    You’re right, and we should have seen it coming.

    Back in the mid-seventies, when EVERYONE knew communism was ascendent, Buckley’s argument that we had to trust the central government to protect us from the Red Menace struck a nerve. True, we should have seen the glaring contradiction, but, hey, better dead than red, right?

    I was president of my chapter of the Young Republicans, and thought WFB hung the moon in those days. So I had a lot of company.

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