Weakly Standard Dead

Started by Solar, December 14, 2018, 08:42:57 AM

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Solar

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And no, that was not a misspelling.

The Weekly Standard went out of business on Friday—killed by representatives of right-wing Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz, who purchased the respected 23-year-old conservative magazine from its original owner, Rupert Murdoch, in 2009 for a reported $1 million. "We are done," Stephen F. Hayes, the Standard's editor-in-chief, told his staff of nearly 40 Friday morning, after a brief meeting with executives of Anschutz's Clarity Media Group in Washington, D.C. The death notice was widely expected, and Hayes and the magazine's founding editors, including Never Trump conservative pundit Bill Kristol, had spent months attempting to organize a consortium of buyers to save the publication. But Clarity chief executive Ryan McKibben wouldn't permit a sale, and had kept his plans in a shroud of secrecy; he didn't inform Hayes that a meeting had actually been scheduled until early Friday morning, according to sources.

–Lloyd Grove

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-weekly-standard-shuts-down-after-23-years?ref=home
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Solar

Just for shits and grins, search "Weekly Standard Closes", and see what you get.
Yeah, the left claims it was a Conservative publication. :rolleyes:
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Walter Josh

A reflection.
Kristol, Goldberg, Podhoretz  and the rest of that gang are the
spawn of thirties Marxists who were ardent fans of Leon Trotsky.
These neo-con men are no more principled conservatives than Marx.

Cryptic Bert

Quote from: Walter Josh on December 14, 2018, 12:00:25 PM
A reflection.
Kristol, Goldberg, Podhoretz  and the rest of that gang are the
spawn of thirties Marxists who were ardent fans of Leon Trotsky.
These neo-con men are no more principled conservatives than Marx.
Don't worry about them. I'm sure MSNBC, CNN, Radio Moscow are hiring.

supsalemgr

Quote from: Solar on December 14, 2018, 08:42:57 AM
:thumbsup:
And no, that was not a misspelling.

The Weekly Standard went out of business on Friday—killed by representatives of right-wing Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz, who purchased the respected 23-year-old conservative magazine from its original owner, Rupert Murdoch, in 2009 for a reported $1 million. "We are done," Stephen F. Hayes, the Standard's editor-in-chief, told his staff of nearly 40 Friday morning, after a brief meeting with executives of Anschutz's Clarity Media Group in Washington, D.C. The death notice was widely expected, and Hayes and the magazine's founding editors, including Never Trump conservative pundit Bill Kristol, had spent months attempting to organize a consortium of buyers to save the publication. But Clarity chief executive Ryan McKibben wouldn't permit a sale, and had kept his plans in a shroud of secrecy; he didn't inform Hayes that a meeting had actually been scheduled until early Friday morning, according to sources.

–Lloyd Grove

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-weekly-standard-shuts-down-after-23-years?ref=home

This reminded me I have not seen Steve Hayes in some time. He was a contributor on the FNC and regular. He had become a real anti-Trumper.
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ConservativeInCT

My father reads The Standard all the time. Admittedly I've read a couple articles from there during the height of the 2016 election. I do believe with Solar that the never-Trump stance is a bad one to take. At a time when the conservative party needs to be rallying around one another as opposed to being divided, Its no surprise the publication went under.

Cryptic Bert

A publication devoted to being a RINO failed?

Inconceivable!

taxed

Quote from: ConservativeInCT on December 16, 2018, 06:24:55 AM
My father reads The Standard all the time. Admittedly I've read a couple articles from there during the height of the 2016 election. I do believe with Solar that the never-Trump stance is a bad one to take. At a time when the conservative party needs to be rallying around one another as opposed to being divided, Its no surprise the publication went under.

Bill Kristol has "those eyes", if you know what I mean...
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Solar

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 16, 2018, 09:56:47 PM
A publication devoted to being a RINO failed?

Inconceivable!
Odd isn't it, that someone thought they could put a happy smile on cancer and everyone would embrace it.
That is literally what the Establishment is, a cancer that needs cut out, and this moron thought he could dress it up in drag and no one would notice a problem.
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