We don’t want to see any publication disappear — not even Salon — because we can at least make fun of the most woke and progressive ones. We were not amused, though, when The Bulwark decided to send über-liberal Molly Jong-Fast to “conserve conservatism” at CPAC this year and ridicule pro-life speakers and mock a man battling cancer by saying he looks “400 years old.” She deleted that one, as well as a funny caption to go along with a photo of the president and first lady at a memorial for tornado victims.
And that’s just Jong-Fast.
In any case, The Bulwark seems to see itself this way:
With the demise of The Weekly Standard and the increasing Trumpification of much of the rest of the conservative media, the Bulwark increasingly stands alone in the breach, shouting “You can’t be serious?”
But we need your support…https://t.co/KUp9XtB3EC pic.twitter.com/6bx0OXBI03— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 17, 2019
Yeah, no. pic.twitter.com/Hol0hX8kMB
— Taxpayer1234 ?????? (@Taxpayers1234) May 18, 2019
GFY.
— Boris_Badenoff (@Boris_Badenoff) May 18, 2019
Nope, you sold out your conservative supporters because of your TDS. We aren’t coming back.
— Tim (@tntDVM) May 18, 2019
America needs your publication to fail.
— Nick Searcy, YOUNG, VIBRANT FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) May 18, 2019
It will.
— Amy ?? (@WaltzingMtilda) May 18, 2019
It already has. #DeathSpiral
— BradyLand (@DrunkenPromises) May 18, 2019
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) May 18, 2019
You can write pieces criticizing Trump and be conservative at the same time; it’s not that difficult.
You mock and have disdain for anyone who dares not to hate Trump 100%. Now you want our money? ???
You should ask your Lib friends for money, Charlie. @MollyJongFast @BulwarkOnline
— Christie (@RepRepublic) May 18, 2019
— The?FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 18, 2019
While you and @BillKristol were on Morning Joe with your Liberal pals to criticise Trump, how many Conservative judges has he placed? Regardless of stupid tweets, Conservatives are winning. Which pro abortion, anti gun, anti free speech Democrat will you support in 2020? pic.twitter.com/vAnVCfAi45
— Order 227 (@Order227blog) May 18, 2019
That’s a toss-up; conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin seems to want Stacey Abrams to run.
Get. A. Real. Job.
— Gary Eaton (@garysteveneaton) May 18, 2019
Maybe he needs to learn a new trade. Maybe programming computer codes??? ??♂️
— Max ???? (@BaltimoreKorean) May 18, 2019
— Will Shakespeare (@Shakespeare64W) May 18, 2019
The Bulwark is going to be the first publication to pay people to read it.
— StanleyForester (@StanleyForeste1) May 18, 2019
Couldn't pay me enough.
— Will Shakespeare (@Shakespeare64W) May 18, 2019
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— (((Elliot))) (@ElliotE33) May 18, 2019
"We're really sorry Molly made fun of you pro-lifers. Bygones, and all that. Please send cash…"
— Hank (@athikerhank) May 18, 2019
You almost have to appreciate the extreme mediocreness of this tweet, almost.
— Paul Dykstra (@Padman4321) May 18, 2019
I read you pretty faithfully, but I'm not sure that I want you to keep existing. For christs sake, you had two articles about Brian Sims.
— Andrew M. (@GreetingsADM) May 17, 2019
To be clear, I don't want you to disappear but I could live without you. Maybe if you had a special "no abortion" version of your feed/site.
— Andrew M. (@GreetingsADM) May 17, 2019
Self-importance is part of your problem. This tweet is the epitome of your delusions of grandeur.
— Steph (@steph93065) May 18, 2019
Or perhaps you need to… I don’t know… lighten up? A tad?
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 18, 2019
Yeah, get noted conservative comedian Jong-Fast in here with some more jokes about “very very very very anti-choice” pro-lifers.
— Mauty480 (@Mauty480) May 18, 2019
Hard Pass.
— samgstone (@samgstone) May 18, 2019
Nah, I’m good.
— Mighty_Wazowski (@WazowskiMighty) May 18, 2019
Bye, Felicia.
— Cory Groshek (@CoryGroshek) May 18, 2019
I mean this from the bottom of my heart: thoughts and prayers, man, thoughts and prayers
— G Policy (@policy_g) May 18, 2019
It seems that the Free Market has spoken.
— S. Marshall Wilson (@smarshallwilson) May 18, 2019
Nope. Never. Not in this lifetime. And I’m not even a Trump fan.
— 2NinerSavoy (@2NinerSavoy) May 18, 2019
What was that old commercial?
Oh, right.Sorry, Charlie.
— YELLOWSTONE (Destroyer of Civilizations) (@rrothfeldt) May 18, 2019
What you haven't figured out (& hopefully will soon) is that a different section of the right (NR, Daily Wire, etc) has (at least mostly) done all the things you think you're doing.
Your own website's mission statement was as much about conservatism as it was stopping Trump ?
— Allahu wokebar (@Entertuitive) May 18, 2019
Ask your leftist investors for more money.
— Richard DeCamp (@richdecamp) May 18, 2019
The problems with that statement are you aren't a conservative site and you hardly stand alone. People can get anti-Trump content anywhere and everywhere.
— SarahAnnRhoades (@SarahAnnRhoades) May 18, 2019
It’s called thinning the herd. pic.twitter.com/qbn5FM1Mc0
— Lowcountry??????Laura (@LauraGina) May 18, 2019
“Back in January, we launched this site as a forum for rational, principled, fact-based conservative commentary.” But we failed miserably. We can’t even convince ourselves of that BS. So now we just pretend & hope some of the NeverTrumpers will still love us.
— RosyRed VA Belle (@kt1varose629) May 18, 2019
You're not National Review.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) May 18, 2019
You can’t be serious, right?
— Charles X Proxy (@Charlemagne0814) May 18, 2019
Trump's got some character flaws for sure, but his policies are top notch. Guess which one I care more about? Go away.
— Nicarican (@TheNicarican) May 18, 2019
That didn’t go as planned, we suspect.
Related:
Bulwark editor still trying to convince us having Molly Jong-Fast cover CPAC was conserving conservatism https://t.co/dzPnGe5eVf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 2, 2019
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