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Yavin4

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Mon Feb 22, 2021, 04:30 PM Feb 2021

TNR: The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells (A really good read)

In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century’s evolution in England’s national character, the actress Deborah Kerr plays a series of roles that represent changing incarnations of the ideal British woman. Were a similar technicolor romance to portray America’s national character over the past seven decades, the right would be represented by a series of characters all named L. Brent Bozell.

In our film’s dramatic climax, L. Brent Bozell IV (“Zeeker” to his friends) is shown in a red baseball cap and blue sweatshirt lettered “Hershey Christian Academy” (with which, that institution assures us, Zeeker is not affiliated) amid an angry crowd chanting “treason!” inside an abandoned Senate chamber. The National Review brand of movement conservatism, launched 66 years earlier under the joint stewardship of Zeeker’s namesake grandad and his great-uncle William F. Buckley, Jr. with the admonition to stand “athwart history, yelling Stop,” now dissolves into violent insurrection as an FBI agent charges Zeeker with disorderly conduct. Fade to black, roll credits.*

But perhaps we should start at the beginning.


https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot
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TNR: The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells (A really good read) (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2021 OP
The entire Bozell clan needs to blow it out their asses. Paladin Feb 2021 #1
Aligned with Korean cult leader RevMoon in the 80s blm Feb 2021 #2
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