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The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine critical of Trump, to shutter after 23 years
CNN ^ | Dec. 24, 2018 | Olivder Darcy

Posted on 12/14/2018 11:23:49 AM PST by libstripper

New York (CNN Business)The Weekly Standard, the magazine that espouses traditional conservatism and which has remained deeply critical of President Donald Trump, will shutter after 23 years, its owner Clarity Media Group announced Friday morning. The magazine will publish its final issue on December 17.

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Employees were told at an all staff meeting, which CNN obtained an audio recording of, that they would be paid through the end of the year, and that afterward they would receive severance which would range in scale depending on factors like seniority. To receive severance, however, employees would need to sign a strict non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreement.

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The closing of the magazine represents a broader shift in conservative media. Outlets on the right that are critical of Trump have lost influence or changed their tone, while media organizations on the right supportive of the President have flourished.

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To: Jim Noble
And you know, Mark Levin really surprised me in the spring and summer of 2016. I never took him for a Bill Kristol-Max Boot ‘fight all wars except our own” guy - but I was obviously wrong.

In 2013 he was (like 85% of both parties) rabidly opposed to war with Syria. Today, he hypocritically blames Obama for NOT going to war in Syria in 2013. He thinks we're idiots. And he's mostly right.

81 posted on 12/15/2018 2:24:44 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Stawp the hammering!)
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To: All

Bye Felicia! :P


82 posted on 12/15/2018 2:50:19 PM PST by ssfromla (I am the Mouth)
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To: libstripper

Weekly Standard. RINO POS fish wrapper. Now what will we line our Parrot cage with?

Bill Kristol…Fred Barnes. Never Trumper Swamp Scum.


83 posted on 12/15/2018 4:09:13 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: libstripper
a "Kun-surve-a tiv" magazine

yeah RIIIIght

more like a psuedo-conservative shill soap box for the RINO losers Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes

84 posted on 12/15/2018 4:36:17 PM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: Vaquero

Bush league shills. No use for them anymore now that Bush dynasty is dead


85 posted on 12/15/2018 4:40:28 PM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
TRUMP CURSE strikes again! Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes ran it off a cliff with their rabid rancid Trump hatred. Good riddance!

Partner, we are winning since these Never Trumpers just do not get it and we are very much in debt to our eyeballs.

We need to ask these guys what part of W. and Obama National debt do you not understand.

86 posted on 12/15/2018 7:14:39 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: broken_arrow1

Maybe now Bill Kristol will get his own show on PMSNBC.


87 posted on 12/15/2018 9:45:11 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: raccoonradio

“>>A beadle, sometimes spelled “bedel”, is an official of a church or synagogue who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties.”

Or a prim schoolmarm who likes cocaine.


88 posted on 12/16/2018 8:19:42 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: libstripper
Below may be the first real news about President Trump by the liars at CNN since Trump was candidate Trump!

The closing of the magazine represents a broader shift in conservative media. Outlets on the right that are critical of Trump have lost influence or changed their tone, while media organizations on the right supportive of the President have flourished.

Beware of the Trump Curse!:


89 posted on 12/16/2018 8:28:30 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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To: libstripper

Rino’s going extinct, that’s good!


90 posted on 12/16/2018 9:21:50 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: CAluvdubya
They forget that people spontaneously lined the streets leading up to the Reagan Library. The crowd size was unexpected not orchestrated!

George Sr. never liked Reagan or respected him. Reagan wanted Jack Kemp on the ticket but was forced to take Georgie because the ESTABLISHMENT Rino moneymen threatened to not support Ronnie. If you were around during the primaries in 1980 you could see on HW's face a bewilderment as to why the people wanted Reagan but not him.

It was the same look many of those so called Republicans gave Trump in 2016.

No one has been able to catch Ronnie's lightning in a bottle until Trump came along.

91 posted on 12/16/2018 9:53:20 AM PST by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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To: libstripper

The Weekly Standard was NOT conservative. It catered to RINO’s and RINO causes and attacked anyone right of center who did not kiss the establishment ring.


92 posted on 12/16/2018 11:38:30 AM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: libstripper

They are not doctrinaire conservatives

They are conservatives bound to always see politic through the prism of racial redress and other issues of bogeyman bigotry

Kristol is a champion of this

And he’s an effete snob


93 posted on 12/17/2018 9:21:29 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: libstripper

Trump Derangement Syndrome is fatal. The trail of carcasses both human and corporate tell the tail. Look at Macron in France. He sleeps under his bed these days instead of on it.


94 posted on 12/18/2018 2:31:53 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I’m late on the reply: yeah, I agree with you. Look at Drudge even, has somebody gotten to him? The only links he’s posting are the “Trump is in dire trouble, the economy is crashing, boo hoo hoo” stories. Maybe it’s just holiday stress/depression but Drudge has really taken a negative turn like everything good has suddenly turned horrible in two weeks.


95 posted on 12/19/2018 8:37:01 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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