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

Also note how in that first sentence they could've just kept it at "universally acknowledged" but no, they had to specify "in America" because in other countries the death of an innocent person is nbd really.

“common sense” was notably lacking from the streets

lmao

The Teenage Demagogues https://t.co/PCibgIPBPJ

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) March 27, 2018

^ This is so goddamn fucking stupid. It's as if he believes these kids wanted to be involved in a school massacre a month ago, just so they could opportunistically make a grab for power.

that's just our Rich!

In my day when there was a mass shooting at my school the children would bow their heads and say, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"

[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-atlantics-bad-reasons-for-hiring-kevin-williamson.html

The Atlantic editor in chief issued a memo to the magazine’s staff this week, explaining his decision to hire conservative writer Kevin Williamson as a columnist for the magazine’s new ideas section. In addition to making the thought leader’s now-familiar case for ideological diversity, Goldberg wrote that he likes to “give people second chances and the opportunity to change.” This is an odd justification for a terrible and high-profile hire at one of the country’s most venerable political magazines.

A longtime correspondent for the National Review, Williamson is, at his best, a right-wing provocateur who writes enjoyable, if slightly retro, prose. At his worst, he’s a verbose and hateful troll. Describing a 2014 visit to the impoverished city of East St. Louis, Illinois, Williamson compared a black child to a “primate” and a “three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg” before likening his own trip through Illinois to Marlow’s journey up the Congo River in Heart of Darkness, all within the space of a single paragraph. (He later denied, unconvincingly, that the three-fifths reference was a slavery joke.) In a column that same year about Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox, Williamson compared trans people to voodoo doll worshippers. “Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman,” he wrote. He accused Bernie Sanders, a secular Jew, of leading a “nationalist-socialist movement” in a too-cute-by-half bid for rage clicks. And perhaps most notoriously, he once opined on Twitter that women who had abortions should be hanged. “I believe abortion should be treated like any other premeditated homicide,” he later clarified, in case anybody doubted his sincerity. “I’m torn on capital punishment generally; but treating abortion as homicide means what it means.”

Fun thread:

Orson Unwelles pic.twitter.com/2U6diGK4Yu

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) March 28, 2018

k-will knows there's no play for mr. gray

https://i.imgur.com/VRfhEa4.jpg

oh shit williamson is younger than i am

Yeah, scary, ain’t it

lololol:

Dear Kevin,

You had the right to remain silent. Now every word you’ve ever uttered, and every one you ever will, can and will be held against you.

I’m sorry to have to write you, for two reasons. Sorry, first, that you have to endure having your character assailed and assassinated by people who rarely if ever read you and likely never met you. Sorry also that your hiring as a writer for The Atlantic has set off another censorious furor in media circles when surely there are more important subjects on this earth.

Then again, as my colleague Michelle Goldberg noted Friday, the question of what counts in mainstream media as “acceptable argument,” and what doesn’t, is not a small one. Every society is civilized, or blinkered, by its choice of moral and political taboos. Too many taboos blunt and bury thought. Too few coarsen and cheapen it. Part of the art of culture — and of editing — lies in finding the path between.

The case against you, as best as I can tell, rests on three charges. You think abortion is murder and tweeted — appallingly in my view — that doctors and women should perhaps be hanged for it. You believe “sex is a biological reality” and that gender should not be a choice. And you once boorishly described an African-American boy in East St. Louis, Ill., “raising his palms to his clavicles, elbows akimbo, in the universal gesture of primate territorial challenge.”

Oh, another thing: As a NeverTrumper, you’re guilty of being insufficiently representative of contemporary conservatism. Had you been a Trumper, doubtless you would have been dismissed as a moron unworthy of the pages of The Atlantic.

Weighed against these charges are hundreds of thousands of words of smart, stylish and often hilarious commentary, criticism and reportage. How many of the people now demanding your firing read your unforgettable description of Steve Mnuchin’s “Scrooge McDuck-style sphincter-clenching,” or of Anthony Scaramucci’s “batty and profane interview in which he reimagined Steve Bannon as a kind of autoerotic yogi”?

Shouldn’t great prose and independent judgment count for something? Not according to your critics. We live in the age of guilt by pull-quote, abetted by a combination of lazy journalism, gullible readership, missing context, and technologies that make our every ill-considered utterance instantly accessible and utterly indelible. I jumped at your abortion comment, but for heaven’s sake, it was a tweet. When you write a whole book on the need to execute the tens of millions of American women who’ve had abortions, then I’ll worry.

How many of the people now demanding your firing read your unforgettable description of Steve Mnuchin’s “Scrooge McDuck-style sphincter-clenching,” or of Anthony Scaramucci’s “batty and profane interview in which he reimagined Steve Bannon as a kind of autoerotic yogi”?

That those are the two best lines of his his defenders can come up with is a condemnation more damning than any liberal screed

yeah but his wonderful prose

But it was only after Williamson completed his book on the need to execute the tens of millions of American women who’ve had abortions that some of the NRO staff began to worry

From my most recent NRO article, about what looks a successful Trump strategy on Korea, and a big win in the midterms: “My prediction is that the president will conduct an unprecedentedly strenuous midterm campaign, and the Republicans will gain six or seven senators and retain control of the House of Representatives.”

if there's one thing trump loves it's unprecedentedly strenuous activity

A not bad article by David French

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/stephon-clark-shooting-police-should-show-more-discipline-restraint/

xp STA-MI-NA

lololol

Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic.

From Jeffrey Goldberg's letter to staff: "The language he used in this podcast—and in my conversations with him in recent days—made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views."

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) April 5, 2018

great work jeff u fuckin rube

Yeah, a completely comprehensive self-own.

You mean people turn out to be who they claim to be?!

should be forced to carry the hiring to term

xpost Funny how it works.

https://twitter.com/NRO/lists/nr-tweets good value right now

looking forward to bret stephens' broadside against pc culture at the atlantic

Now the quest for right wing opinion writers who have not said anything vile in public continues

god I want one of these ridiculous 6 figure sinecures. even the people responsible for hiring them are too fucking lazy to do any real fact checking.

Maybe Williamson should just move to where the jobs are https://t.co/dTPPcO4mv5

— J. Arthur Bloom (@j_arthur_bloom) April 5, 2018

tbf he did last about seven Quinn Nortons

he wasn't even a good writer, holy crap.

Kevin Williamson: hired for his talent, fired for his views. This is chilling.

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 5, 2018

if it's so chilling, maybe try chilling the fuck out.

these liberals should take notice that this is affirmative action failing right before their eyes

So, when does The Atlantic fire the man who wrote this? Or is the magazine's official position one of approval? @JeffreyGoldberghttps://t.co/oifcZMz97o pic.twitter.com/COwmWNDduA

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 5, 2018

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Oh boy

Always good to have one's next column topic determined well in advance.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) April 5, 2018

Victor Davis Hanson has advice for the Resistance.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Daqgm5ZUwAA8CXC.jpg

OH GOOD

Ah, The West

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"Waddup, Barnes & Noble. I got a couple boxes of my new book in my trunk. Hit me up if you want some on consignment!"

lmao:

I’ve watched in horrified amazement as the controversy over my friend Kevin Williamson has unfolded. It is a disgrace. Kevin is as gifted a writer as there is in this country. His description of a grocery list could provoke you to think.

That last sentence.

his description of a grocery list could provoke you to think 'why the fuck am i reading this'

You know you want to read Kevin Williamson's self-pity party in the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-twitter-mob-came-for-me-1524234850

And then you know you want to see Noah Rothman from Commentary get dragged for this:

Kevin Williamson holds a terrible mirror up to the liberal intelligentsia: "If you want to know who actually has the power in our society and who is actually marginalized, ask which ideas get you sponsorships from Google and Pepsi and which get you fired." https://t.co/xRrn8EiYtW

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 20, 2018

oh great

first they came for Kevin Williamson and nobody gave a shit and went about their business as usual

These magazine people all have like ridiculous ideas about who is a Serious, Challenging Intellectual

Matt Walsh

These magazine people all have like ridiculous ideas about who is a Serious, Challenging Intellectual

It's very much a self-regarding thing.

everyone who ever said kevin williamson is a good writer even if you disagree with him is an idiot. look at this garbage https://t.co/Pav2g6FV8L pic.twitter.com/menvSO9ukT

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) April 24, 2018

In case anybody wanted to know what the award winning spam sandwich &/or Lisa Dziadulewicz looked likehttps://t.co/v4p3JC3crE pic.twitter.com/gfkZPr6fA7

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 24, 2018