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Entry: Blacklisted By NR Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blacklisted_by_inr_i#15214 Post contents: Ever since National Review began in the 1950's, there has always been a question as to where the funding for this costly, money losing venture came from. Many assumed that Buckley, because of his CIA background was getting money under the table from the government. Now I reaslize that it was probably coming from somewhere else entirely.People working as National Review who were staunch in their support of Israel were the recipients of numerous financial windfalls. Chief among these were lucrative book contracts for books that would never even remotely make up their publishing costs. Access to the media, epecially TV, was another gift to those at NR who toed the line. And then there were the lecture fees. These were quite interesting.Favored people at NR made great incomes off lectures that, oddly enough,always seemed to be sparsely attended even though the tickets had been sold out. Of course, we now can see that such book advances and the lecture fees were nothing more than laundered bribes for those who toed the line. Sent at: 2009 01 08