I am now reading, for the secondtime, a history of the Romanov Dynasty which was reviewed and recommended by National Review.

Bill Rusher was the original publisher of National Review for over half a century.

NR is the best example of political targeting I have ever seen.

Its job is to take an incredibly wobbly target and stay with it. NR must never promote anyone who really offends the left, in a period when the correct words for a group has gone from Negro to Blacks to African-Americans in such a bewildering amount of changes, never actually defined, that leaves those who qualify as “political commentators” in a permanent condition fo uncertain fear.

But NR consistently takes exactly the position allowed by the establishment some people still think is a secret.

Oh, you gotta believe that, too.

NR is so good at this that it can get just the right position out of writers on sport, history, something they refer to as “science,” you name it, they have already scouted out the personnel.

So I am now reading a NR-recommended history of the Romanovs.

To sum up my point, when they come to the freeing of the Russians Serfs in the 1860s, there is a footnote. I rushed to that footnote with great expectations and was not disappointed.

It was single paragraph with a set of statements about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that was a quick summation.

Every single statement it made was wrong. It got the wrong number of slaves, wrong YEAR, and so forth.

I am the only professional writer who will mention it.

Ever.

Book – History of the Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Montefiore