Jeffrey Blehar, writing on National Review’s The Corner, wrote: “Everyone knows by now that Donald Trump slept with Stormy Daniels and then paid her hush money when she threatened to go public, using his attorney Michael Cohen as a cut-out.” Jeffrey Blehar, ‘Of Course It’s Political,’ National Review: The Corner (April 1, 2023, 6:30 AM), <https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/of-course-its-political>.
Actually,
we do not know that Trump slept with Daniels. Only Trump and Daniels would
know. There are no photographs or videos—something Daniels might know about. Nor
has Daniels produced any physical evidence supporting her allegations. We just
have her word for it. What we do know is, and it has been long reported, that Trump
is a notorious germaphobe—a fact which cuts strongly against Daniels’ claims. Would
a notorious germaphobe sleep with Daniels?
The
fact that some at National Review dislike Trump is not surprising. The
fact that some at National Review take Daniels’ claims at face value
absent concrete physical evidence is also not surprising. But the fact that the
editors at The Corner published Blehar’s assertions as an undoubted
truth which “everyone knows” only shows that—all too many at National Review
are willing to destroy their publication’s institutional good will.
And why would they do that? It is virtue signaling. By demonstrating that they are oblivious to the actual evidence at hand (and the lack thereof), by putting reason and fair-play aside, they illustrate the same primal unreasoned hatreds about which the American right would usually castigate the left. And here they do it to prove their worth to the beautiful people. The sad truth is…the National-Review-types could never convince the beautiful people—no matter how hard they try to do so.
Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Jeffrey Blehar and the Problem at National Review,’ New Reform Club (Apr. 3, 2023, 6:54 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2023/04/jeffrey-blehar-and-problem-at-national.html>;
NR was a great publication when WFB was at the helm. "WAS" is the operative term. Haven't read that squishy, rino rag in a decade.
ReplyDeleteI was just getting good at understanding the literary conservative world when the "Against Trump" issue hit the newsstands. I was a Ted Cruz guy but recognized the FIGHTER that Donald Trump is and stuck with him. Glad I did. I watched ruling class conservatives get wrecked by their own actions and don't feel bad for them at all. They're still getting a paycheck but, the political reality hits the right much harder than it ever hits the left.
ReplyDeleteWhat we do know is, and it has been long reported, that Trump is a notorious germaphobe—a fact which cuts strongly against Daniels’ claims. Would a notorious germaphobe sleep with Daniels?
ReplyDelete"In an unearthed interview from 1997, Donald Trump claimed he was a 'brave soldier' for avoiding STDs during his single years in the late '90s.
'It's amazing, I can't even believe it. I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It's like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,' Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn't contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.
The business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview, calling women's vaginas 'potential landmines' and saying 'there's some real danger there.'
Also appearing on Stern's show in 1993, Trump bragged about his promiscuous lifestyle while single and stated that men who didn't go to Vietnam didn't need to feel guilty because dating during the AIDS epidemic in the '80s was also dangerous.
'You know, if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam — it's called the dating game,' Trump said to Stern in a 1993 interview. 'Dating is like being in Vietnam. You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.'"
https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/
It doesn't matter. No one is unaware of Trumps foibles but they don't matter. They're superficial to people's lives. What does influence our lives is the deep, deep corruption of media, gov and big tech. The triumvirate exposed itself in effort to destroy Trump. Censorship, political persecution by law enforcement agencies, degrading military, and the rest of the radical and destructive agenda being implemented at break neck speed. Oh but Trumps dalliance's is the real concern. This is why I cancelled a 40 year subscription to NR. They, like much of Conservative Inc continue to strain at gnats but swallow camels.
ReplyDeleteThe National Review still has some institutional good will left?
ReplyDelete-->"What does influence our lives is the deep, deep corruption of media, gov and big tech. The triumvirate exposed itself in effort to destroy Trump. Censorship, political persecution by law enforcement agencies, degrading military, and the rest of the radical and destructive agenda being implemented at break neck speed."
ReplyDeleteBingo.