Posted on 12/09/2014 10:12:39 PM PST by dennisw
Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats. And now the media finally noticed.
How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution, while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York’s 19th Congressional District. Last week, the 31-year-old Hughes forced the resignations of both the editor and literary editor of The New Republic, whose 100th anniversary he presided over last month at a star-studded gala in Washington, D.C.
In protest of the magazine’s newly ensconced CEO’s plan to transform TNR into a “vertically integrated digital media company,” the majority of the magazine’s senior and contributing editors resigned.
Weeks before the implosion at TNR, 28-year-old Eldridge lost his congressional bid by a stunning 30 points, despite having outspent his opponent nearly 3-to-1 in a district President Obama won by 6 percentage points. The couple had purchased a $2 million home in the district expressly so that Eldridge could run there, their purchase of a $5 million mansion in the adjoining 18th having come to naught after that seat was won by another gay Democrat in 2012.
Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.” In 2012, Hughes bought The New Republic, rescuing the flagship liberal magazine from financial peril and establishing himself as a player in Washington. At the same time, Eldridge was quietly preparing to run for Congress in upstate New York.
Young, handsome, Ivy League-pedigreed, rich (“the wealthiest openly gay men under 30” according to The Advocate), and espousing predictably liberal political views, the Hughes-Eldridge partnership was destined to work wonders for America.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
The luxurious lifestyle of these two gay goofballs is amusing..... Is in the rest of the article
I was never aware of them, either one till now. But then, I don’t make a habit of reading that magazine one of them just took over, plus, I am not on Facebook.
Reads like a reboot of Citizen Kane.
Let me pause for a nanosecond of mourning over the demise of The New Republic, and sob bitter tears over the fact that it couldn't have happened to a better set of folks. There, I'm over it.
Loving the snark already. Great to see this in the Daily Beast. I’ll have to read it all later!
Depends on what your definition of "wonders" is.
Which one of the perverts pitches and which one catches?
The guy who won the Harvard roommate assignment lottery.
Several observations here.
First, all of this talk is basically over a magazine that now sells only 50,000 copies a month. In 2000, they were supposedly selling 100,000 copies a month...so they’ve lost half their audience. Maybe it’s read by the intellectually elite...but you can figure that a great majority of Americans have never picked up or read the magazine.
Second, they’ve raised the price to $4.95 which makes it a pretty hefty price for a monthly.
Third, the supposed price for the sale of the magazine this last time around was around $20 million. No one can explain how you’d come to such a value...if you only 50,000 copies a month and have a fairly costly staff.
Finally, what Hughes bought in 2012...was the title “The New Republic”. It was like going after Time or Newsweak...paying a marginal amount of money for simply the title. Every single employee for the magazine should have realized that when a five-star geeky guy wanted to have ownership. By having the bulk of the staff leave as they did in the last ten days....TNR can now move, remake itself, and be something entirely different. Copies per month? They will dump the paper copy within a year and go entirely digital. They know the future.
If you ask me...a whole lot of hype over mostly nothing. I read the magazine in the 1980s....maybe three or four times over a one-year period. You might have found one single interesting article out of twenty. It was designed for a certain type of reader, which nine out of ten of us are not.
Another bump in the road for the Democrat bus. At the rate they’re appearing, the bus is soon going to need new shocks.
The pic of the loving (geek) couple is worth going to the article, and the story is hilarious. Besides the story of their destruction of The New Republic, several leftie knuckle heads get skewered, including Dana Milbank and Fareed Zakaria. Tee,hee,hee.
How about the rise and fall of a heterosexual couple? Really, getting tired of reading about homosexuals and their relationships (Seem to be the new trend). How about the other relationships? Or better yet, can we just forget about sex and private lives all together? Works for me.
You know, sex is a private thing (in the bedroom).
Proverbs 16:18 applies.
We all would do well to remember that truth.
...."For behind the seemingly accomplished, smart, and creative prodigy that supposedly is Chris Hughes lies a deeply insecure man with few accomplishments to his name..."
Ah, the nouveau riche. How F. Scott Fitzgerald despised them. Apparently with good reason.
One of them looks like the spawn of Lindsey Graham and Clay Aiken.
I heard that as hard as they tried, they couldn’t get pregnant. ;-)
Quite a little takedown. Too bad; The New Republic has had some good years - especially the 80s.
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