Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, Frum, Stephens and Sykes, now have no influence, have lost most of their former platform and are widely reviled.
David French makes his money by pretending to be a conservative while writing articles that support whatever position the Left wants supported. Typically, these articles are entitled the conservative case for Leftist cause.
Mona Charen never had any influence and continues to have no influence at her job with National Review. I think her life is the same as it has always been and she should be very thankful to Rich Lowry for keeping her around at National Review.
Ramesh Ponnuru writes generally conservative articles for Bloomberg and mean-spirited tweets designed to provoke other conservatives into disliking him. He is now the editor at National Review and will probably continue the path forged by Rich Lowry at NR.
Larry Sabato is a professor at U.Va. and has always leaned Left. He just seems more conservative than he really is because he comes from an academic environment and is forced to ground some of his work in reality or risk being wrong every time. Again, I think his life is the same as it ever was.
Michael Gerson works for the Washington Post and his job is to pretend to be a conservative while telling liberal readers of the Washington Post what they want to hear. Again, I think his life is the same as it ever was because he never had influence with other conservatives.
Peggy Noonan still has her gig with the Wall Street Journal. I think she has a lot less influence among conservatives than she did 5 years ago, but her life is pretty much the same. She is probably too stupid to realize how lucky she is to still be writing for the WSJ.
I don't know who Meachum is.
Max Boot and Jennifer Ruben are yet another two neocons who want the U.S. involved in wars in the Middle East that will be fought by someone else's sons. It turns out that both of them were just big shysters who always were on the Left. They both work for the Washington Post. Boot is yet another protege of Rich Lowry who went bad.
David Brooks wrote an entertaining book 25 years ago called Bourgeois Bohemians in Paradise. He hasn't written anything worth reading since then. Again, he is employed by the New York Times to pretend to be a conservative while telling the liberal readership of the NYT what they want to hear. I think his life is the same as it ever was.
Joe Scarborough is a former Republican congressman who is now a morning show host on MSNBC. I don't think anyone ever took Scarborough seriously. He is a poor man's Matt Lauer only his reporting isn't quite up to Lauer's standards.
Rich Lowry is the person who is really in control of National Review and he is the man responsible for NR losing roughly 60% of its readership. I understand that he is paid roughly $450K per year by NR. He has laughed all the way to the bank as he has presided over the great diminution of NR. He is probably the biggest disappointment of everyone on this list because he is responsible for so many conservative writers going bad.
I count myself amongst the many that were suckered for a long time by the Goldberg's, Nordlingers and Kevin Williamsons of the world. I had a 'scrip to NR and was an avid reader.
Along came Trump - and their never ending vitriol towards him. I could never understand the logic; even if you thought he was the worlds biggest "meanie", an uncouth Eddie Murphy to the Dukes of the beltway (and I for one loved Trump and thought he was exactly what we needed)...the logic is, when faced with two evils... you have to make a choice.
Hillary vs Trump?? There wasn't even a shadow of a doubt for anyone intellectually honest.
Obviously they were not. It became clear, they were far more concerned with their ability to procure dinner reservations as "Chez Georgetown" and their paychecks as lefty shills pretending to be conservatives on TV. I cancelled my 'scrip.
It became even more clear when Trump actually started putting his stamp on policy and direction - he was and is the most conservative governing President we have had - including Ronald the Great.
Move the embassy to Jerusalem? Other presidents babbled about it, Trump did it. March for Life? He went. Did GWB or Bush the elder??? Tax cuts and deregulation? If only Paul Ryan and Cocaine Mitch had done their jobs, he would have gotten even more put thru.
End ISIS? Supreme court? What other lackey that Goldberg would have wanted, woulda stood by Kavanaugh as the left tried to ruin him??? What other lackey woulda told the left to get bent and went forward with Amy Barrett? Energy Independence. Told the mullahs to get bent while sending their chief terrorist to his celestial virgins.
None of that mattered to the NR writers or Kristol. They pressed on. And although they may be drowning their sorrows in a less than toney DC establishment right now, ultimately they succeeded. So I disagree with the overall premise of Robinson -
The left used the narrative they set forth and destroyed any chance Trump had at winning a second term..to elect a likely senile incompetent. But Orange Man Bad!!!
Chris: Thank you (I'm playing Who's Who Catch-Up). It boggles my mind that even one person in the universe could consider Sabato a "conservative." If he's a conservative, I'm Al Sharpton.
I watched Bret's panel pretty much all through the Dark Period (Obama years). I quit watching several months into the Renaissance (PDT's term). Like all phony cruise boat conservatives, once they actually had the power to enact change, they balked. I'm looking at you Paul Ryan. They are nothing more than members of the uni-party. Hucksters out for themselves. Snake oil salesman worse than democrats. They have no honor, no integrity, no imagination and no spine. Emerald - you did the world a great boon. Thank you.
Indeed. Establishment types wanna blame DT for "losing" congress when, in fact, it was lost because the Ryan led party didn't do jack squat when they had the power to do so...who needs them? We want people that will take it to the left, not kiss their backsides...
Here's what I can foresee happening. The RINOs currently in office think they're in fat city for the 2022 midterms due to the abysmal Pedo Chinese Bagman Surrender Monkey's performance. Or lack thereof. Just not being associated with the dims will get them into office. At that point, I can see Kevin McCarthy morphing into the 2022 version of Paul Ryan. Republican leadership is all hat and no cattle. I can see them getting in, booting everything for two years thinking they have it made in the shade, and then getting their asses handed to them in 2024. Of course, all that is predicated on having an honest election. Which I don't think is going to happen. Again, Republican leadership has been MIA on elections since Nov 4, 2020. Putzes.
With the benefit of hindsight, Paul Ryan's gang WANTED to lose their Congressional majority. What better way to be paid and not have to be responsible for anything (and in the going, get rid of some annoying Representatives, cohorts)?
And, of course, Paul was handsomely rewarded by Fox with his sinecure after he left office. A coincidence? HA! His eventual reward was lined up like a laser-guided NASA space shot. [08/29/22]
THIS! The Lord is with you girl! Conservatives and true Republicans just instinctively “knew” when those dopey pundits were jerking our chain… what they were selling, we didn’t buy! 🎉 🎉🎉 Congrats on a job well done!
Thank you. You mentioned every single one of the ones I detested, especially The Davids, and for reasons even I don't know, I always thought Jonah should have been named David too. I'm glad they are gone. My only regret is that Kevin Williamson continues on. He should have literally been tarred and feathered.
This piece just made my day. I am sharing this with EV-ERRR-REEEE-ONE! (Typed in the spirit of Gary Oldman's character in Leon: The Professional). Well done E.R. ... such a wonderful conglomeration of beauty, brains and bitchiness. I ❤ it .... this .... you. Keep murdering them Lady! There is more work to-do.
"Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, French, Frum, Sykes, Sabato, Charen, Ponnuru, Gerson, Noonan, Meachum, Boot, Brooks, Lowry, Scarborough, Stephens, Erickson and Rubin."
Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, Frum, Stephens and Sykes, now have no influence, have lost most of their former platform and are widely reviled.
David French makes his money by pretending to be a conservative while writing articles that support whatever position the Left wants supported. Typically, these articles are entitled the conservative case for Leftist cause.
Mona Charen never had any influence and continues to have no influence at her job with National Review. I think her life is the same as it has always been and she should be very thankful to Rich Lowry for keeping her around at National Review.
Ramesh Ponnuru writes generally conservative articles for Bloomberg and mean-spirited tweets designed to provoke other conservatives into disliking him. He is now the editor at National Review and will probably continue the path forged by Rich Lowry at NR.
Larry Sabato is a professor at U.Va. and has always leaned Left. He just seems more conservative than he really is because he comes from an academic environment and is forced to ground some of his work in reality or risk being wrong every time. Again, I think his life is the same as it ever was.
Michael Gerson works for the Washington Post and his job is to pretend to be a conservative while telling liberal readers of the Washington Post what they want to hear. Again, I think his life is the same as it ever was because he never had influence with other conservatives.
Peggy Noonan still has her gig with the Wall Street Journal. I think she has a lot less influence among conservatives than she did 5 years ago, but her life is pretty much the same. She is probably too stupid to realize how lucky she is to still be writing for the WSJ.
I don't know who Meachum is.
Max Boot and Jennifer Ruben are yet another two neocons who want the U.S. involved in wars in the Middle East that will be fought by someone else's sons. It turns out that both of them were just big shysters who always were on the Left. They both work for the Washington Post. Boot is yet another protege of Rich Lowry who went bad.
David Brooks wrote an entertaining book 25 years ago called Bourgeois Bohemians in Paradise. He hasn't written anything worth reading since then. Again, he is employed by the New York Times to pretend to be a conservative while telling the liberal readership of the NYT what they want to hear. I think his life is the same as it ever was.
Joe Scarborough is a former Republican congressman who is now a morning show host on MSNBC. I don't think anyone ever took Scarborough seriously. He is a poor man's Matt Lauer only his reporting isn't quite up to Lauer's standards.
Rich Lowry is the person who is really in control of National Review and he is the man responsible for NR losing roughly 60% of its readership. I understand that he is paid roughly $450K per year by NR. He has laughed all the way to the bank as he has presided over the great diminution of NR. He is probably the biggest disappointment of everyone on this list because he is responsible for so many conservative writers going bad.
I count myself amongst the many that were suckered for a long time by the Goldberg's, Nordlingers and Kevin Williamsons of the world. I had a 'scrip to NR and was an avid reader.
Along came Trump - and their never ending vitriol towards him. I could never understand the logic; even if you thought he was the worlds biggest "meanie", an uncouth Eddie Murphy to the Dukes of the beltway (and I for one loved Trump and thought he was exactly what we needed)...the logic is, when faced with two evils... you have to make a choice.
Hillary vs Trump?? There wasn't even a shadow of a doubt for anyone intellectually honest.
Obviously they were not. It became clear, they were far more concerned with their ability to procure dinner reservations as "Chez Georgetown" and their paychecks as lefty shills pretending to be conservatives on TV. I cancelled my 'scrip.
It became even more clear when Trump actually started putting his stamp on policy and direction - he was and is the most conservative governing President we have had - including Ronald the Great.
Move the embassy to Jerusalem? Other presidents babbled about it, Trump did it. March for Life? He went. Did GWB or Bush the elder??? Tax cuts and deregulation? If only Paul Ryan and Cocaine Mitch had done their jobs, he would have gotten even more put thru.
End ISIS? Supreme court? What other lackey that Goldberg would have wanted, woulda stood by Kavanaugh as the left tried to ruin him??? What other lackey woulda told the left to get bent and went forward with Amy Barrett? Energy Independence. Told the mullahs to get bent while sending their chief terrorist to his celestial virgins.
None of that mattered to the NR writers or Kristol. They pressed on. And although they may be drowning their sorrows in a less than toney DC establishment right now, ultimately they succeeded. So I disagree with the overall premise of Robinson -
The left used the narrative they set forth and destroyed any chance Trump had at winning a second term..to elect a likely senile incompetent. But Orange Man Bad!!!
And look at the havoc they have wrought...
Chris: Thank you (I'm playing Who's Who Catch-Up). It boggles my mind that even one person in the universe could consider Sabato a "conservative." If he's a conservative, I'm Al Sharpton.
I watched Bret's panel pretty much all through the Dark Period (Obama years). I quit watching several months into the Renaissance (PDT's term). Like all phony cruise boat conservatives, once they actually had the power to enact change, they balked. I'm looking at you Paul Ryan. They are nothing more than members of the uni-party. Hucksters out for themselves. Snake oil salesman worse than democrats. They have no honor, no integrity, no imagination and no spine. Emerald - you did the world a great boon. Thank you.
Indeed. Establishment types wanna blame DT for "losing" congress when, in fact, it was lost because the Ryan led party didn't do jack squat when they had the power to do so...who needs them? We want people that will take it to the left, not kiss their backsides...
Here's what I can foresee happening. The RINOs currently in office think they're in fat city for the 2022 midterms due to the abysmal Pedo Chinese Bagman Surrender Monkey's performance. Or lack thereof. Just not being associated with the dims will get them into office. At that point, I can see Kevin McCarthy morphing into the 2022 version of Paul Ryan. Republican leadership is all hat and no cattle. I can see them getting in, booting everything for two years thinking they have it made in the shade, and then getting their asses handed to them in 2024. Of course, all that is predicated on having an honest election. Which I don't think is going to happen. Again, Republican leadership has been MIA on elections since Nov 4, 2020. Putzes.
With the benefit of hindsight, Paul Ryan's gang WANTED to lose their Congressional majority. What better way to be paid and not have to be responsible for anything (and in the going, get rid of some annoying Representatives, cohorts)?
And, of course, Paul was handsomely rewarded by Fox with his sinecure after he left office. A coincidence? HA! His eventual reward was lined up like a laser-guided NASA space shot. [08/29/22]
"members of the uni-party". I'm stealing that.
Please, be my guest.
Media Gods: Can we please give this woman Rush Limbaugh's place in the media world.
08/29/22: She's getting there, slowly but surely.
THIS! The Lord is with you girl! Conservatives and true Republicans just instinctively “knew” when those dopey pundits were jerking our chain… what they were selling, we didn’t buy! 🎉 🎉🎉 Congrats on a job well done!
The Lord is with the meek and the merciful, not vindictive and hateful liars like Robinson.
Taking a stand and telling the truth in a fun sort of way is not vindictive nor hateful.
Thank you. You mentioned every single one of the ones I detested, especially The Davids, and for reasons even I don't know, I always thought Jonah should have been named David too. I'm glad they are gone. My only regret is that Kevin Williamson continues on. He should have literally been tarred and feathered.
Perhaps i missed it, but I think you failed to mention the biggest fraud of the bunch, David French...
Actually, French is honest to a fault, hardly a fraud.
Says who? Prove it.
French was mentioned (recommended: "Find" search for a name after reading an article. Prevents awkward moments). 08/29/22.
"Straight to the guillotine... Thank you for taking no prisoners" <THAT is how you take BACK OUR COUNTRY
Dear Emerald Robinson,
You are a shining beautiful GEM of an American and I LOVE you and what you’re doing!!!
GO BACK WITH A HAMMER AND PUT STAKES IN THEIR COLLAPSED CHESTS. JUST TO BE SURE
Or we could nuke 'em from orbit. Just to make sure.
This piece just made my day. I am sharing this with EV-ERRR-REEEE-ONE! (Typed in the spirit of Gary Oldman's character in Leon: The Professional). Well done E.R. ... such a wonderful conglomeration of beauty, brains and bitchiness. I ❤ it .... this .... you. Keep murdering them Lady! There is more work to-do.
Would it be too much to ask you to turn your destructive powers on National Review next?
What a splendid piece!
This was excellent. I have a whole new respect for your work.
You rock!!
yep
Straight to the guillotine... Thank you for taking no prisoners
Sorry but a bunch of the old crew is back on Bret's panel. Hayes, Jonah and others. Maybe it's time to give Bret a booster shot of reality