Thursday, July 13, 2023

The Tone Police Never Sleep

When you're America's most venerable* journal of White Supremacy (h/t Brother Charlie Pierce) and you're once again caught flat-footed on the wrong side of history, there's only one thing to do.  

Call the Tone Police!

From Jonah Goldberg, David French and Ann Coulter to Dinesh D'Souza,  Noah Rothman and Kathryn Jean Lopez, the National Review has been the whelping box for more poisonous ideas and noxious media creatures that were then portaged over into the mainstream media than any other single Patient Zero of the Conservative mind virus.  

By all rights, they should have been put out of business long ago, forced to pay off their creditors like some weirdo pillow guy: by auctioning off their fax machines, Rich Lowry's Palin-era, jizz-stained bow tie collection and  Kathryn Jean Lopez's reliquary of dubious Catholic artifacts.

But of course, as elite, front-of-the-line Wingnut Welfare Queen, the National Review doesn't have to worry about such grubby, proletarian concerns.  From Wikipedia:

As with most political opinion magazines in the United States, National Review carries little corporate advertising. The magazine stays afloat from subscription fees, donations, and black-tie fundraisers around the country. The magazine also sponsors cruises featuring National Review editors and contributors as lecturers.

[William] Buckley said in 2005 that the magazine had lost about $25,000,000 over 50 years.

Let me state for the record that, as an extremely cost-effective Liberal blogger and podcaster, I'd be willing to lose half that amount, twice as fast...for America!


I Am The Liberal Media



And FYI, this is how you use venerable* in a sentence, Marj.

3 comments:

SteveSteve said...

The National Review lineup is really sad. Third level fascists at best. Dinesh D'Souza, what a loser! Whoever is paying for the National Review needs to pony up for some bigger names.

Robt said...

Your Marge video posted here is a fantastic memory supplement.

Watching the video of her reading her written words about some sort of propose; (I think) she is attempting to put forth.

The memory of 6th grade on Thursdays. Weekly assignment of current event and our take on that event with any suggestion to improve the issues outcome as we were to explain.

As here is an event in the news, this is what I would do.

In my class there was the prototype of the present day "Karen" named Brenda.
How marge sounds so clearly the spitting' image/ clone of Brenda.

You see, 5th grade Brenda every Thursday when she took her turn used up most of the classroom time and no one else had their shot and some were thankful she did . So all they had to do for the assignment was turn their news event in and did not have to stand Infront of the class and explain it.
It enhanced my memory so well I can recall During Brenda's (todays Karen), presentations the competition of raising our hands for permission from the teacher, to go to the bathroom was fierce.

Denny said...

I am reminded of the "venerable" HL Mencken's quote, that is equally applicable to this situation. To wit: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken