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!
Good Riddance!
To Kristol, Hayes, Barnes and the
rest of the anti Trumpers.
How sweet it is! Eat dirt, traitors, wallow in your misery and failure.
I don’t know who these traitors thought was going to be their audience. Nobody likes a traitor, not the side you betrayed, and not the side that always was against you. It’s like a bunch of dairy farmers who think they’ll survive by only selling milk to each other. The fools, they dug their own grave, and good riddance to them.
Cuckhold Confidential shuts down?!?
Cigar time!
...”The problem with neocon political and military actions is we never get the omelets.”
Oh, well said yesthatjallen.
It was a good magazine in the early 2000s, but I haven’t read it in 10 years. Oh well Kristol’s next cruise should be on the Titanic...
I grew up reading NR, but after WFB died...I stopped subscribing to it.
Pound sand, Bill Kristol.
Neoconservatives = Trotskyists. Ask William’s daddy, Irving.
I’m sure that Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes have embezzled enough cash to keep these two con artists happy for the rest of their Trotskyite lives.
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