Variety Magazine Goes To Bat For Hillary Clinton In First-Ever Presidential Endorsement

Huffington Post ^ | November 1, 2016 | Kim Bellware

[Loyalist]

Variety magazine has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, marking the first time in more than 100 years that Hollywood’s oldest entertainment industry trade magazine has made a presidential endorsement.

Variety announced their endorsement of Clinton on Tuesday and joins a growing list of publications like The Atlantic and the conservative Arizona Republic newspaper that have made unprecedented or otherwise rare endorsements of the Democratic nominee this election season.

The magazine acknowledged it was unusual for a trade publication to make such an endorsement, but said this of all years was the one in which the editors-in-chief and Variety’s publisher, Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, felt moved to “buck tradition and take a public stance on this historic election.”

“We didn’t want to sit on the sidelines and come down on the wrong side of history,” the editors said, noting the presidential endorsement is the magazine’s first in its 111-year history.

[Loyalist]

Read it and weep.

Variety has thrown in at the worst possible time. Not that its editorial board or target market cares, but this will be an embarrassment in due time.

[BenLurkin]

Owned by a consortium of Oil Sheikhs?

[faithhopecharity]

for a rag that circulates in Hollywood of all places, to endorse a far leftist socialistic candidate... is only an effort to try to shore up its circulation base

the publishing business has been going down the tuubs (what with the rise of the internet)

[faithhopecharity]

the endorsement is already a big embarrassment to the publisher

who probably had it written a couple days ago, before all the latest came out about just how thoroughly corrupt, dishonest, and compromised HilLIARy really is

[ponygirl]

Annndd..... a swing and a miss!

[capydick]

We didn’t want to sit on the sidelines and come down on the wrong side of history.....

Well, it looks like you missed that opportunity there ladies.....

[SaveFerris]

[didn't want to come up on the wrong side of history]

Ha! TOO LATE SUCKERS!!!

[dforest]

Variety Magazine goes for the old bat.

[Ann Archy]

VARIETY??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[SaveFerris]

Oops “up” or “down” - it’s all relative!

[Fiddlstix]

Wow! A magazine for, by, and about actors......
Endorsing ClinToon......
Imagine that!

[VanDeKoik]

Like who the hell do they think reads that? Conservatives?

[DoughtyOne]

Your person is holding a 2 of hearts, a 5 of clubs, and a 9 of spades face up.

The other person is holding three aces face up.

What do you do?

Why you double your bet. There’s no way your person can lose.

LOL

Variety, someone needs to show you how to play poker.

[Billthedrill]

Variety? That's sort of like an endorsement from My Weekly Reader. At least the old Weekly World News had pictures of the candidates with aliens.

[sarasota]

Too late Hollywood, Trump and the Republicans now speak for the American people.

[xp38]

Sticks Nix Clints

[A_Former_Democrat]

LOL.....the more that comes out, the worse they get

If Variety had any shame . . .

[Flavious_Maximus]

Thanks for that analogy. I enjoyed it. It made me laugh out loud.

[BlessedBeGod]

“We didn’t want to sit on the sidelines and come down on the wrong side of history,” the editors said, noting the presidential endorsement is the magazine’s first in its 111-year history.

LOL, it sounds like satire!

[katykelly]

LOL ! Who cares ?