Thank you Philip Anschutz for killing this POS rag. If the neocons had even some small measures of success to interrupt their string of failures over the last three decades, maybe there’d be an argument to be had. But they don’t. From H.W. getting tossed to the Iraq War disaster to McCain and Romney, it’s just been one giant fail after the next for everything they’ve been allowed to get their hands on.
What a great read! Love me some shadenfreude!
I think rather than being murdered, the Weekly Standard made it’s own bed and had to lie in it.
John Podhoretz may have pedigree but he’s an idiot.
B-O.O....H-O.O.
The cessation of something that really wasn’t all that intellectual can hardly be called an intellectual crime. The only political crime may be that this so-called political rag lasted this long. I do hope Podhoretz doesn’t take too long getting over himself, lest there be more of his whining on various forums.
The WS died of self-inflicted suicide.
Its Never Trumper stance was too much for conservatives to put up with.
And under Bill Kristol’s leadership, it became a fringe publication.
Good riddance and it won’t be missed.
He is not going to blame him, because he is just like him. When his goal was finally realized with the election of Donald Trump, and Republican control of both houses of congress, he nitpicked the leader Americans chose, and still does. He is equally as despicable.
No, not murder...suicide, since it was a NeverTrumper magazine...next on the suicide watch National Review...WFB would shut it down if he was alive today...
It’s hard to figure which is the best news Lil Paulie being gone or the weakly stranded being gone.
Quote “When Bill Kristol and I conceived the magazine at the end of 1994, our purpose was to create a publication that would help guide and keep honest the hard-charging Republican party that had scored its stunning lopsided victory over Bill Clinton’s Democrats. This putative magazine would not cheerlead for Newt Gingrich’s Republicans, but instead represent the best thinking about how to lead the country through a new conservative era. ”
In other words intellectual circle jerkers who could navel gaze spat on every decision the conservative movement made. Relentlessly until they were out of power. The surprisingly they went out of business but not before they were seen as nothing but useless tool for progressives.
Good riddance. Maybe I’m harsh. Maybe not. I’m tired of conservatives eating their own over the 5 percent that there is disagreement about. Got that 5% I say adios Mother F’kers.
So, the sugar daddy had enough fun, and threw in the towel.
What kind of conservative wants to work for an enterprise that is a life time money loser, and is totally dependent upon the largess of some fat, old, white men {snigger, snark}?