• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Donate
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Getting Derbed: or, Shorter Rich Lowry

April 8, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Translated by me, from the original NROspeak:

“John Derbyshire wrote stuff like this for years, and we got to brag about having a genius on staff. But then one day Other People noticed and gave us 24 hours of virtual grief, so we dumped him.”

Old and tired? “Moped.” New hotness? “Getting Derbed.”

Conservatives are supposed to be acutely attuned to the Law of Unintended Consequences, but behold:

There are now over 2000 comments at Derbyshire’s column at Takis.

(Where, also predictably, hardly anyone on the “progressive” side is a) clicking on Derb’s citations/links or b) refuting them with their own)

Looks like that “candid discussion about race” is gonna sort of happen whether Establishment Beltway Careerist Think Tank Conservatives want it to or not.

More from my site

  • My new Taki column: Canada’s most annoying pro-lifer goes to the Supreme CourtMy new Taki column: Canada’s most annoying pro-lifer goes to the Supreme Court
  • Friendships with Fictional Characters: ‘Celebrities are who we have in common’Friendships with Fictional Characters: ‘Celebrities are who we have in common’
  • So then there was the time they named a racehorse after my husband’s blogSo then there was the time they named a racehorse after my husband’s blog
  • 1970s stuntman turned director Hal Needham dies, aged 82

Filed Under: conservative blog

« Celebrate the end of the long gun registry with CanadaAmmo: get a free shotgun or pistol
Happy Easter! (Also? Send money!) (And get a FREE book.) (Maybe.) (Thanks.) »
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in