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The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine critical of Trump, to shutter after 23 years
CNN ^ | Dec. 24, 2018 | Olivder Darcy

Posted on 12/14/2018 11:23:49 AM PST by libstripper

New York (CNN Business)The Weekly Standard, the magazine that espouses traditional conservatism and which has remained deeply critical of President Donald Trump, will shutter after 23 years, its owner Clarity Media Group announced Friday morning. The magazine will publish its final issue on December 17.

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Employees were told at an all staff meeting, which CNN obtained an audio recording of, that they would be paid through the end of the year, and that afterward they would receive severance which would range in scale depending on factors like seniority. To receive severance, however, employees would need to sign a strict non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreement.

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The closing of the magazine represents a broader shift in conservative media. Outlets on the right that are critical of Trump have lost influence or changed their tone, while media organizations on the right supportive of the President have flourished.

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To: Alberta's Child
ROTFLOL....that's a good one.

So much rich material was posted that week in response to planting a 94 year old globalist.

I think the Bush league Die-nasty was jealous of Ronnie Reagan's funeral, like they were jealous of his presidency, from the look of all the pompous circumstance.

While watching bits and pieces, I kept thinking that in typical globalist RINO miscalculating fashion, they thought all they had to do was delay the inevitable.....hoping for a better result.

41 posted on 12/14/2018 1:16:20 PM PST by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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To: libstripper

I will give the demise of the Weakly Standard all the thoughtful consideration it deserves.

Okay, all done now.


42 posted on 12/14/2018 1:17:00 PM PST by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Where can I go to dance on their grave?

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They don’t have graves. Demons just dematerialize.


43 posted on 12/14/2018 2:19:15 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Where can I go to dance on their grave?

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They don’t have graves. Demons just dematerialize.


44 posted on 12/14/2018 2:19:15 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: VRWCarea51

You can spend quality time with the like of Fred Barnes, William Krystal and Stephen Hayes. Losers All!

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Boehner is advertising on local radio for a seminar to learn about making money on medical marijuana.

Perhaps they will go there and get stoned.


45 posted on 12/14/2018 2:20:40 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: VRWCarea51

You can spend quality time with the like of Fred Barnes, William Krystal and Stephen Hayes. Losers All!

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Boehner is advertising on local radio for a seminar to learn about making money on medical marijuana.

Perhaps they will go there and get stoned.


46 posted on 12/14/2018 2:20:41 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: libstripper

The Weak-Kneed Scoundrels.


47 posted on 12/14/2018 2:23:51 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

"Where can I go to dance on their grave?"


Perhaps we should set up a grave for just that purpose, (so that people could go there to dance on their grave, or do various other functions to express their feelings, as the mood strikes them).

Since it is so close to Christmas, and this "Weekly Standard" demise is like an early Christmas present for good people everywhere, my suggestion is that that gravesite should be set up at "The Merry Cemetery", and that the following tombstone should be used for that purpose:


       


What do you think?

48 posted on 12/14/2018 2:43:36 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: libstripper
[ The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine critical of Trump, to shutter after 23 years ]

O.K.....


49 posted on 12/14/2018 4:14:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

LOLOL


50 posted on 12/14/2018 4:16:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: libstripper

The WEAKLY Standard is/was certainly not a conservative magazine from what I could tell. The Left loved it from what I could tell.


51 posted on 12/14/2018 4:20:17 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: libstripper

Gee, that is do bad. NOT!


52 posted on 12/14/2018 4:20:24 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Gahanna Bob

Last seen as guest on the Hugh Spewitt show.


53 posted on 12/14/2018 4:32:35 PM PST by Fungi
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To: libstripper

“Outlets on the right that are critical of Trump have lost influence or changed their tone, while media organizations on the right supportive of the President have flourished”

To reiterate what you said, I can’t believe CNN wrote this!


54 posted on 12/14/2018 4:40:53 PM PST by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: Songcraft

Sounds like a winner to me.


55 posted on 12/14/2018 4:46:35 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Good catch!
Goes to show the ‘establishment’ are clueless as to the real world.
Not one of them will admit the ‘Progressive’ ideology is destroying this country. The Left has gone too far in demanding largess of the Treasury. And we all know it is us, the makers, who will have to work harder for less.


56 posted on 12/14/2018 4:56:59 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: VRWCarea51

The blind, unreasoning hatred of the neocons for Trump is one of the strongest reasons to never abandon him.

And you know, Mark Levin really surprised me in the spring and summer of 2016. I never took him for a Bill Kristol-Max Boot ‘fight all wars except our own” guy - but I was obviously wrong.


57 posted on 12/14/2018 5:02:12 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: libstripper

uh, bye.


58 posted on 12/14/2018 5:04:17 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: Jim Noble

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Not all Neos hate Trump. Ari Fleisher seems to think he’s OK.


59 posted on 12/14/2018 5:04:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: libstripper

Correction:

Neoconservative (= Trotskyist).


60 posted on 12/14/2018 5:56:45 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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