"Classic Takes: How I Murdered The Weekly Standard!"
I believe I saw bits and pieces of this story over a period of months, but it's good to see a synopsis of the whole thing in one place.
There are still many would-be influencers and political medicine men out there, living in their delusional bubbles, and doing yeoman's work for the Left; but, still, it's always good to see the pretensions of quislings and liars exposed, whatever their number.
Fascinating stuff. I am still in awe at how quickly the mask dropped from these people. One minute they were the Last Defenders of True Conservative Conservativism™, the next they'd gone full I'm With Hillary!
ReplyDeleteVery few of them even had the minimal decency to withdraw quietly and re-emerge after a suitable period of contemplation, after which they'd decided their real ideals lay elsewhere - it was as instant as the sheep at the end of Animal Farm bleating "Four legs good, two legs better!"
I mean, there have been plenty of jokes about French people in 1944 reversing their swastika armbands to reveal a Cross of Lorraine, but these clowns did it for real. And were boastful about it.
Bill Kristol, Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, David French, David Frum, Larry Sabato, Mona Charen, Ramesh Ponnuru, Michael Gerson...
ReplyDeleteThat's a long list of people whose opinions I have no interest in, or I have never heard of.
I see Emerald Robinson's tweets pasted here and there, but I didn't realise she had a substack.
ReplyDeleteShe has a nice way with the language, too.
'The end of the Weekly Standard came as a heavy blow to Beltway mediocrities like John Podhoretz, and other neocon fossils stuck in assisted nursing facilities.'
Certain personalities at our ABC came to mind when I read that.
Now that's a good list of scalps.
ReplyDeleteI stopped reading Jonah Goldberg when he wrote an article saying he would stop trying to be funny and start being I'm A Serious Analyst Guy.
I do have to say that I always thought Emerald Robinson was a black guy.
I've only rarely read her stuff, but I've seen the name for years.
That's pretty funny.
Oh yeah, Eugene Robinson.
ReplyDeleteNevermind.