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.
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Who?Never heard if them...( Am I a homophobe for not knowing them?)
I used to read the New Republic in 1990s. It was a good center-right magazine and pro-Israel of course, the owner being a Zionist Jew, Marty Peretz, with deep pockets. My cousin went to Brandeis U with him, was in his class.
Krauthammer got his big start there and got to be editor for while
Who cares? They're both filthy diseased queers.
Well, that’s there problem. Campaigning as a wealthy snob is well annoying to a lot of people, kind of like Obama saying how pathetic stay at home Moms are, when a stay at home parent in a couple (mother or father) actually makes economic sense when you have a family income that is middle class. For multi-millionaires like the POTUS, he just doesn’t get it.
Gotta love The Great Gatsby, oh how it describes the 2010s so well.
You know, I'm not one for saying, "...we're doomed..." BUT
We're doomed...!
(...destined to work wonders for America... YIKES!)
Yes, I couldn’t think of the name of the editor or owner - Martin Peretz - that was it. It was a very good read at the time. Pro-Israel and amazingly anti-Ted Kennedy, lol! It went bad when Andrew Sullivan came aboard. He brought Camille Paglia which was the only smart thing he ever did.
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