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Bill Kristol’s Never Trump Mag Reportedly Shutting Down in December (Weekly Standard)
independent sentinel ^ | December 4, 2018 | S.Noble

Posted on 12/05/2018 8:19:29 AM PST by Eddie01

Bill Kristol’s Never Trump magazine — The Weekly Standard — is facing its imminent demise. Perhaps hate didn’t sell too well with Conservatives and Republicans. The owners of the publication, Media DC, say they are going to concentrate on their other outlet instead, The Washington Examiner, Vox reports.

A source told Vox reporter Joan Coaston, “This is not about dwindling subscribers. This is about strip-mining TWS for its assets” — namely, the magazine’s subscriber lists.

That’s not likely 100 percent truthful.

Founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard is best known as a publication aimed at “neoconservatives” aka neocons. Neocons are a dying breed. They followed a hawkish foreign policy which is less popular these days.

Also, maybe bashing Trump daily isn’t as much of a money maker and vehicle of conservative thought as Kristol assumed. Shocker!

The Chief White House Correspondent for One America News, Emerald Robinson reported Tuesday that the magazine will close down in a few weeks.

Robinson says they’ve been losing subscribers since 2016: BREAKING: Multiple sources tell me that neocon magazine @weeklystandard is expected to close its operations in a few weeks. It had lost many subscribers since the 2016 election as its #NeverTrumper editors @BillKristol @stephenfhayes @SykesCharlie publicly aligned with the Left.

— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) December 4, 2018

In addition to Kristol, Stephen Hayes and Charlie Sykes lined up against Trump. That was a bad idea. They should have remained neutral if they couldn’t say anything nice.

The truth is the magazine is often unbearable reading for those of us who want the President to succeed.

According to Vox, staffers say the magazine’s owners “have worked to sabotage TWS every step of the way” and now want to harvest the magazine’s subscriber base to help support the Washington Examiner, which is now expanding into a nationally distributed magazine.

Truthfully, The Washington Examiner isn’t tainted and is three times as popular.

The magazine honchos literally aligned with the far-left. Maybe conservatives had enough negativity from the left without suffering through it from the right. It’s self-torture.

Whatever the reason, if the report is true, Hasta La Vista baby!


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kristol; weeklystandard
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To: Eddie01

Karma is a bitch


21 posted on 12/05/2018 8:34:00 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Eddie01

Ha! Good!


22 posted on 12/05/2018 8:34:19 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Eddie01

The only bad news about this news is that it came 20+ years too late. If The Weekly Standard ever printed anything worth reading, it was purely by accident.


23 posted on 12/05/2018 8:36:20 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Eddie01
Back in the late 90's and early 2000's I considered TWS to be required reading. I subscribed for years...always appreciated the cover art.

Now I'm glad to see them fold up. I hope Billy boy Kristol is proud of himself.

24 posted on 12/05/2018 8:36:56 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: Eddie01

Kristol, “The white working class should BE REPLACED”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJSKhEwjy8

1 min.


25 posted on 12/05/2018 8:37:13 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Eddie01

Lots of failing Never Trumpers in the news, Cheeto-face and Levin partner to save themselves, Weekly Standard failing.


26 posted on 12/05/2018 8:38:01 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Eddie01

Shut it down and pour cement on top. Don’t want Kristol/NeoCon’ism returning in this form again.


27 posted on 12/05/2018 8:38:38 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SaxxonWoods

Bill Kristol has said that he may run in the 2020 GOP primaries against Trump. I really hope that he does, it will be another chance to watch that pompous idiot fall flat on his repulsive, grinning face yet again. I’m guessing he’ll get a few hundred votes nation-wide, about equal to the readership of the Weekly Standard.


28 posted on 12/05/2018 8:38:38 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Eddie01

I dumped it a year ago. Got fed up with Bill Kristol’s whining.


29 posted on 12/05/2018 8:39:01 AM PST by laweeks (h)
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To: Eddie01

More appropriate name for the ‘weekly standard’ would have been the RINO Standard.


30 posted on 12/05/2018 8:42:18 AM PST by adorno
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To: Eddie01

Didn’t Newsweek sell for $1.00?

I’ll bid 85¢.


31 posted on 12/05/2018 8:42:22 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: ek_hornbeck

The Weekly Standard, like the Wall Street Journal, has always been a propaganda organ for the Cheap Labor Express, trying to convince US to give up our country without a fight.


32 posted on 12/05/2018 8:42:36 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Eddie01

33 posted on 12/05/2018 8:46:31 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Eddie01
Has this rag gone under yet? I can't imagine it has any more subscribers than Kristol's sh*t publication....




34 posted on 12/05/2018 8:47:05 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Eddie01

Oh noes, no more “Conservative Cruises” where they fleece you.


35 posted on 12/05/2018 8:50:20 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!


36 posted on 12/05/2018 8:54:46 AM PST by jyo19
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To: Eddie01

The Weekly Standard gets flushed down the American Standard.


37 posted on 12/05/2018 8:55:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

The dead tree magazine is a dying business model, even if your stock in trade is photos of naked and semi-naked babes.

A dead tree rag whose mission is to constantly bash a guy who is supported by 80% of Republicans has no prayer.


38 posted on 12/05/2018 8:56:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dfwgator
The Weekly Standard gets flushed down the American Standard.

Remove the tank cover of my American Standard and you'll see it's stamped "Made in Mexico" on the inside.

That right there is the whole problem in a nutshell.


39 posted on 12/05/2018 8:57:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Eddie01

If true, more good news and more winning for President Trump.

If they do close, President Trump will still be their president and our president.


40 posted on 12/05/2018 8:58:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Why are the libs suddenly in love with our fired AG/ and want to protect him?)
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