NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

The state of affairs.

Certainly standing athwart something or other

Standing athwart a urinal

what an insightful anecdote that definitely really happened:


Forgive me for repeating this story, but it’s a useful one: I have a relative who thinks of himself as a conservative. When I told him eleven years ago that I was coming to work for National Review, which I had been reading since I was a teenager, his response came in the form of this question: “Is that the one with that ol’ boy from New York who talks like a queer?” That’s what a pretty-well-representative septuagenarian Republican voter knew about William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008.

It stands to reason that Buckley should have socked himself in the face

my gramps told everyone in 1961 'no, that lad is just a femme-positive-cis-het-male, like most of that magazine's staff, probly due to early, but luckily limited, soy-exposure.' alt right has such deep roots

lol

Jonah Goldberg is not just looking for a fight. He’s hoping for a “big, internal, honking fight” to revive the Republican Party, and to fuel the high-profile new media outlet he announced last month with Steve Hayes, a former editor-in-chief of the Review’s long-time rival, The Weekly Standard, to form a new conservative media company.

Goldberg’s venture is notable in part because he’s in it, one of the few sought-out, reasonable voices in media today. But it’s also worth watching because of Goldberg’s vow to break through the siloes much of journalism now finds itself in. The new outlet, he says, will steer away from fan service when it launches this summer. “So much news we see, the audience already agrees with what they’re reading, and they want to be right,” he says. Goldberg plans to challenge the groupthink that he sees accompany “across the ideological spectrum” with “breaking political and cultural firestorms,” like the Covington kids or the Kavanaugh hearings. “If a tulip bulb mania were to break out, we want to be the place that explains both why it’s happening and why you shouldn’t sell your house to buy more tulips.”

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/jonah-goldberg-national-review-steve-hayes.php

can't wait!!!!

'pssst... hey buddy, wanna cut through the groupthink?'

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never, ever gets old

Every time I see that picture I think about how humid and sticky that plasticy car seat fabric must be and how many fast food bags he had to clear out of the way to make a seat for you.

and when he finally starts the car the empty water bottle and Dr. Pepper cans roll from under the seat against your feet.

i am being attacked on this board and if i had mod powers i would ban everyone

There are those who believe that Trump is fit for office, in mind and character, and those who do not. That has always been the case. It has never changed. And I guess never will. To a degree, the Mueller report is like a Rorschach test.

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) April 18, 2019

In conclusion, Trump is a land of contrasts.

AGAINST
RORSCHACH TESTS

he is vaguely rorschach blot-shaped

*hurm*

Lord help me, I'm looking at what National Review had to say about the Voting Rights Act this morning. pic.twitter.com/HRzhEDNmG9

— David Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) April 23, 2019

Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company with Steve Hayes, who was editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard when its owner shut it down in December.

Details: Goldberg and Hayes tell me they plan a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company that will begin with newsletters as soon as this summer, then add a website in September, and perhaps ultimately a print magazine.

Hayes, the likely CEO, and Goldberg, likely the editor-in-chief, are the founders.

Hayes tells me about the startup, which doesn’t have a name now: "We believe there’s a great appetite on the center-right for an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis."

Hayes and Goldberg are seeking investors.

i too am seeking investors

word on the street is that the center-right is where it's at right now, tons of people in that category, looking for some honest news

the cool thing about seeking investors is if you find the right ones you don't have to seek any readers

^^bingo

aka The Buckley Dictum

here's an exclusive peek at jonah's new hq

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We're going to start with a personalized license late, then add a billboard in September, then maybe some skywriting in the future.

"Whaddup, homies. I'm coolin' it behind the Walmart in Alexandria. Hit me up if u want an assignment."

Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company

I coulda sworn this happened already. How many of these no-constituency outlets do they really fuckin need

this pro-biden anti-busing article in the national review is extremely racist. who would have guessed pic.twitter.com/0Jmwo7i3ip

— Sparky Abraham (@sparkyabraham) May 15, 2019

We have too many NRO threads.

We need your support to continue the unending battle against Socialists. https://t.co/GhbXvQVWJv via @MichaelBD pic.twitter.com/5vcVjLNndo

— National Review (@NRO) May 30, 2019

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Just like the right wing dove

beautiful

Jonah's out!

https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/last-g-file-national-review/

in celebration of Jonah Goldberg leaving national review, I present to you the paragraph for he deserves to be remembered—written as Katrina breached the levees pic.twitter.com/NkPzg2fcoj

— Elon Green (@elongreen) June 1, 2019

the Socialism issue the Nathan Robinson treatment

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/06/the-best-theyve-got

*gets the

a very satisfying read!

hmmm it’s almost like the right’s best minds are intellectually dishonest charlatans

fair play to the guy who’s just like ‘yeah they’ve got a point’ tho

that guy go on chapo

good ol' Kevin Williamson

speaking of kevin: lmao

last year we had a fake ad for a Kevin Williamson book about how twitter mobs are oppressing conservatives. Now, Kevin Williamson has announced his new book, and it is about... about how twitter mobs are oppressing conservatives. pic.twitter.com/WfX6eSHylE

— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) June 11, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-eoY4hUYAU_xVl.jpg

these people are deranged

I'm not gonna kink-shame, but they don't HAVE to publish it on the website either.

fabulous heel imo

the most recent Maureen Dowd column alluded to Kamela Harris digging her heel into Biden or something

the last 40 years of politics really can just be boiled down to men feeling emasculated and whites feeling dislodged from the top, like literally every single issue can funnel that way

After what happened to @MrAndyNgo today, and the violence he's been documenting, it seems that Antifa rules Portland with the same impunity that the KKK ruled Birmingham in the 1960s. Shame on you, Mayor @tedwheeler. Restore law and order to your city. https://t.co/lQ2HnnPpGI

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 29, 2019