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Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump
CNN ^ | January 4, 2019 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 01/07/2019 12:41:43 PM PST by detective

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Full title: Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump

A handful of writers and editors who worked at The Weekly Standard, the now-defunct conservative magazine that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump until its sudden demise in December, have a new home.

Starting Monday, Bill Kristol, a co-founder of The Weekly Standard, and Charlie Sykes, the former talk radio host and conservative commentator, will beef up The Bulwark, a conservative website that has until now served as an aggregator for Kristol's non-profit group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: kristol; thebullsquat
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"Joining Sykes and Kristol at The Bulwark will be several alumni from The Weekly Standard, including Jonathan Last, the former digital editor of The Weekly Standard who will serve as executive editor, and Rachel Larimore, the former online managing editor of The Weekly Standard who will be managing editor. Other editorial members will include Jim Swift, Ben Parker, Hannah Yoest, and Andrew Egger."

The new site will be devoted to attacking president Trump. It will be funded by Iranian terrorist supporters who hate America.

1 posted on 01/07/2019 12:41:43 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Ever hear of any of them except Kristol? Not me.


2 posted on 01/07/2019 12:44:23 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: detective

Uh, they must have changed the daffynition of conservative when I was sleeping. They did that one other time with infringed.


3 posted on 01/07/2019 12:44:32 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Wow, lets take a failed idea and transfer it to a new site!

Kristol has been exposed as a total idiot


4 posted on 01/07/2019 12:45:19 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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Kristol's non-profit group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute

So, having failed in the free market, Kristol will now pay himself a salary from his own non-profit organization. I wonder who the donors are? I'd imagine there'd be a lot of crossover with the Clinton Foundation donor list.

5 posted on 01/07/2019 12:45:44 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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A “conservative” site not afraid to take on Trump?! Covering every angle possible. Next they’ll claim that Melania has a blog that’s not afraid to take on Trump.


6 posted on 01/07/2019 12:46:14 PM PST by albie
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No mention by CNN on who is funding this. Wonder why?


7 posted on 01/07/2019 12:46:49 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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Then they’re a leftist site, working on behalf of the Democrat Party. Screw them and their advertisers


8 posted on 01/07/2019 12:49:20 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Wow, lets take a failed idea and transfer it to a new site!

LOL! That was my exact thought. Talk about bad business decisions. Let's examine something that failed and reproduce that with the exact same format and see if it fails again.

Wait, what?

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. CNN, NSNBC, NYT, etc. keep playing the Russian roulette with the same formula and can't figure out why they are dying in the ratings over and over again. They think "fake news" is a conspiracy. They can't imagine it's a real thing and that they are the source.

9 posted on 01/07/2019 12:50:20 PM PST by Tenacious 1
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Kristol's non-profit group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute.

That does not sound very conservative. But then nothing about the Kristol family ever has! One wonders whether George Soros has a hand in this type of "conservatism?"

But for anyone who does not know about Kristol & his daddy: Neocon Phenomenon

10 posted on 01/07/2019 12:53:09 PM PST by Ohioan
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More like the Bulsh##...


11 posted on 01/07/2019 12:54:27 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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Good grief. These never Trumpers are a bore.


12 posted on 01/07/2019 12:54:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Sykes had a conservative talk radio show in Milwaukee.
His ex wife was on the short list for SCOTUS.


13 posted on 01/07/2019 12:55:15 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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Well, it’s Bull something or other...............


14 posted on 01/07/2019 12:55:29 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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The weekly Standard was unafraid to take on Trump too.


15 posted on 01/07/2019 12:57:23 PM PST by Fhios
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Kristol is a total buffoon who is taking his orders and being totally controlled by the Deep State. Rank and file Republicans know Kristol is a total fraud!


16 posted on 01/07/2019 12:57:53 PM PST by dowcaet
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as is being pointed out, “bulwark” means a “wall”

Kristol et al are hypocrites, but that’s not new news


17 posted on 01/07/2019 12:58:56 PM PST by rintintin (q)
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Sykes had a conservative talk radio show in Milwaukee.

I think we're at a time and place where Never Trumps like Sykes aren't considered to be conservative.

18 posted on 01/07/2019 1:00:35 PM PST by JonPreston
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The Cheap Labor Express propagandists have a new home.


19 posted on 01/07/2019 1:02:03 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Bulkwark. More like The BS. A bulwark for garbage anti-Trump neocon crap.


20 posted on 01/07/2019 1:02:21 PM PST by Lent
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