These magazines are vanity projects for their patrons; nobody could make a decent living out of them under a strictly competitive, for-profit model.

The Weekly Standard’s writers are older men who are used to a lot more money sloshing around their “industry.” You don’t get to be rich rich paying retail. At some point even the rich get tired of paying upper bourgeois salaries for what Steve Sailer or Fred Reed will deliver off whatever they scratch up from, say, Social Security, some well-timed real estate ownership, and what their wives bring in.

So the owner decided to ditch the old, saggy, high-maintenance Weekly Standard for a cheaper, younger, hotter! model. Naturally, he doesn’t want to leave the old asset out there for somebody to grab. It’s “red ocean,” not “blue ocean.”

Brooks’ time would be better spent discussing who killed The New York Times

The Deplorables and the Bernie Bros are the only constituencies that matter where electoral politics is concerned. Neither reads the Weekly Standard. Put it out of its misery.

Among the excellent Weekly Standard lost voices is Christopher Caldwell; in my opinion there is no better columnist in the world. Where can we read his columns? There are infrequent Claremont Institute essays; where else? Perhaps it is too soon to know where Mr. Caldwell, and others, will land.

ahahahahaha……
i had a good shot of whiskey and a belly laugh
when i read the piece of news ’bout the inglorious
downfall of that poisonous neocon rag.
whatever the reson was anschutz pulled the plug:
i don’t care.
the main thing is – it’s gone. hopefully forever.
and good riddance for mr. podhorez, kristol etc. pp. –
the whole sorry lot of traitors to the good old u. s. of a.

massel tov

post scriptum:
i hope for the same fate of mr. brooks and the “gray lady”-
but that’s still wishful thinking…

“…the most concentrated collection of talent I have ever been around…Charles Krauthammer, P.J. O’Rourke, Robert Kagan, David Frum, Chris Caldwell, Matt Labash, Tucker Carlson and the greatest political writer of my generation, Andrew Ferguson.”

Oh David, David! I’ll give you Carlson – but the rest? Oh David!

David Brooks had that rare gift. He could convince people he was a conservative all the while pimping for big government and crony capitalism. A Rockefeller Foundation kind of conservative. The Weekly Standard is dead and happily there’s nothing Brooks or any of his ilk can do about it. All neo cons should now crawl back into that Democrat Trotskyite hole from whence they came.

The Weekly Standard, the same outfit behind the disastrous Iraq War, was deplatformed by its own audience. There isn’t a market anymore for upperclass warmongering and simultaneous moral braying about Donald Trump.

Good riddance to the fake conservatives and warmongers.https://t.co/lkGNWliDGr

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 18, 2018

The neo Cons never made inroads into American thinking. God bless America. Good riddance Weekly Standard.

Charles Krauthammer, P.J. O’Rourke, Robert Kagan, David Frum, Chris Caldwell, Matt Labash, Tucker Carlson

Tucker was slumming back then.

Except for him, they were all PNAC wannabes (Project for a New American Century).

Didn’t Rupert Murdock finance the WS from the start?

Think Peace — Art

David Brooks had that rare gift. He could convince people he was a conservative all the while pimping for big government and crony capitalism.

Passing off the Jew, David Brooks as a conservative by the NYT is an intellectual insult. The NYT did the same with his predecessor – William Safire. Being pro-Israel and its wars, is Not being a American conservative.

Think Peace — Art

The Standard was conservative, but it frequently dissented from the Republican establishment and delighted in modern pop culture. The staff was never unanimous about anything. The many flavors of conservatism were hashed out in its pages. If it stood for anything, I would say it stood for this: that the good life consists of being an active citizen and caring passionately about politics; that it also consists of knowing something about Latin American fiction, ancient Greek culture and social impact of modern genetics; that it also consists of delighting in the latest good movies and TV shows, the best new cocktails and the casual pleasures of life.

Maybe Brooks could specify how the NYT fails to meet this definition of conservative.

It’s a Trump story to the extent that Trump finally exposed to the public that hadn’t already figured it out that neoconservatism is a total fraud. There is no use any more in peddling this idiotic and dangerous farce because no one is buying it any more and it is being folded into the Jewish neo liberal tent where it always belonged.

“And Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.”

A mischling Jew, Brooks , writes a story about a very Jewish magazine, a magazine devoted to Israel, and because of its Jewish pedigree, or at least like Brooks, half Jew and half stew of Diverse but probably Christian more or less writers (full disclosure: I don’t know ). And Tucker Carlson?!!, man am I out of it!)….and,….and Brooks never uses the J -Word in his article?

Something pretty gevelte-fishy about it. And none of the comments here bring it up? What’s the matter with all the anti-Semites on this list anyway? How about smell a rat?

Maybe Anschutz is an Anti-Semite! and that accounts for his rubbing it in over the Christmas season, especially with Tucker safely gone over to Fox, still sorta Fox Jews, but Tolerant enough to allow Tucker to get pretty close to the Jew-Rail at times, (formerly known at the Third rail).

Tucker seems to be unreliable these says, even if he was so at the Weekly Standard…dunno ’bout that either. Tucker and the rest of the crew at Fox never talk about Israel…almost never. Seems like it takes about 200 dead Palestinians to show up on Fox radar. One dead Israeli equals about 200 Palestinians dead, like a few months ago.

This said, a dead Weekly Standard is a great Christmas gift to White Christians as well as Arab Christians.

Joe Webb

“And Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.”

A mischling Jew, Brooks , writes a story about a very Jewish magazine, a magazine devoted to Israel, and because of its Jewish pedigree, or at least like Brooks, half Jew and half stew of Diverse but probably Christian more or less writers (full disclosure: I don’t know ). And Tucker Carlson?!!, man am I out of it!)….and,….and Brooks never uses the J -Word in his article?

i bet brooks wouldn’t be complaining if Anschutz was a jooo

Ding dong, the witch is dead.

The only thing about the demise of The Weekly Standard that troubles me is that most of its writers will probably find positions elsewhere.

‘The Standard was conservative, but it frequently dissented from the Republican establishment and delighted in modern pop culture. The staff was never unanimous about anything. The many flavors of conservatism were hashed out in its pages. If it stood for anything, I would say it stood for this: that the good life consists of being an active citizen and caring passionately about politics; that it also consists of knowing something about Latin American fiction, ancient Greek culture and social impact of modern genetics; that it also consists of delighting in the latest good movies and TV shows, the best new cocktails and the casual pleasures of life.’

The Weekly Standard stood for uncritically supporting Israel no matter what moral horror and degradation this involved.

I’ve never read The Weekly Standard, but subscribers obviously decided they didn’t like whatever it was selling.

So the nasty, ignorant old populists have struck again, have they? Good on ‘em.

Well played.

Since Brooks is lamenting the demise of a neoconservative warmongering publication at the hands of a Christian, let said Christian buy National Review and shut it down, too.

More mental action around JEWS and our current affairs. Maybe Weekly Standard was retired as endangering the Jewish Power and the Russia! thesis.

Tucker Carlson tonight and RUSSIA ! as he yells it these days. Tucker asks guest Russia expert…

Dec 18 at 10:55 PM

Stephen Cohen, an historian of Russia , why all the Russia hysteria from Dems? Cohen says he does not know, but that maybe it is related to the effort (Neocons not remarked by Cohen) of the foreign policy usuals to contain Russian influence and that Putin is the main guy they dislike intensely, after having thought Russia would be compliant under Yeltsin, etc. This is the old Big Power Politics argument …which is not without merit. But…there is a more parsimonious, or Occam’s Razor type of argument…ITS THE JEWS (!).

Tucker played a clip of MSNBC Brian Williams and his house Negro theorizing a vast Russian plan to subvert the US with propaganda and to make it a pushover for a Russian takeover. John Birch Society, KKK, David Duke, Alt Right and Richard Spencer (!), White Nationalists and Trump all conspiring to welcome the Ruskies. Brian Williams (do I have his name right?) warmly thanks the Negro for his insight.

Well, despite the entertaining jive of said negror, the LIb-Rad media is indeed crazed but you have to watch it to really get it. I usually only get the clips from CNN and MSNBC which show up on Fox, but I saw a piece today wherein a claimed new discovery of a worm in Australia was recognized and given the name of wormus Trumpalisis, or the like. I guess that was a joke.

Until this article, I didn’t know that Brooks was an editorial writer for the New York Times. I had pretty much stopped reading the Times for obvious reasons.

If the above screed is an example of his writing ability or of his reasoning ability, I am not missing anything.

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David Brooks is a conservative in the same measure that Joe Stalin was a libertarian. The heyday of the Jews (with, of course, the notable exceptions) masquerading as anything but what they are- fanatic tribal identitarians whose only moral imperative is “good for the Jews”- is over.

The death of this warmongering rag is a positively good thing, except insofar as it served as a monument to Jewish hypocrisy and double standards- thus as an eminent exemplar of Judeo supremacism- in an era wherein international justice is a joke. Julius Streicher was executed for far less at Nuremberg than what these warmongering tribalists have conjured up and been cheerleaders for.

I know a few Jihadist , a few Hinduvatta , a few Nazi , a few Fascist They used to publish weekly standards in local languages and used to send it to the dictators and the elected prime ministers every Monday for the staff to get ideas and then to implement it

Something happened to those writers They were Nuremberg- ed and some were droned and some passed away . None of them other than a few Hinduvatta are left. Hinduvatta carry names that are local translation of the names like David Brook Podohoretz and Kristol.

But that’s not the whole story. In reality, this is what happens when corporate drones take over an opinion magazine, try to drag it down to their level and then grow angry and resentful when the people at the magazine try to maintain some sense of intellectual standards. This is what happens when people with a populist mind-set decide that an uneducated opinion is of the same value as an educated opinion, that ignorance sells better than learning.

I don’t know what is funnier, this statement or the fact that there is some pompous ass that actually believes it. The inability of Brooks to see how this rant exposes his undeserved high opinion of himself and those like him is amazing.

The Weekly Standard was killed by the fact that Neoconservatism is a Jewish lie by which conservatives have started to refuse to be led.

Its no more complicated than this.

O’Rourke was actually still quite funny back in 1995, when the magazine premiered. But he hasn’t been for quite some time now.

The Weekly Standard was a Neocon rag.

I believe he was an in-house columnist, not an editorial writer–much like George Will at WaPo.

Make that “is” an in-house columnist. He’s still there.

“The only thing about the demise of The Weekly Standard that troubles me is that most of its writers will probably find positions elsewhere.”

One of them just penned an article over at TAC. It’s a vapid – disingenuous – piece attacking populist critics of the current liberal Ruling Class; apparently, the democratic system that has allowed such push back is a problem that needs to be fixed these days. To their credit, it was ripped apart in the comment section. I definitely get the feeling that some of these neoliberal, faux conservative RINOs are pinning for new jobs. Personally, I think they should just drop the act and become democrats. I’d rather they not undermine the few good sources of news left with their presence.

Murder? Or suicide?

Is this conventional? I can’t believe the NYT copy editor is sleepier than me.

My impressions… was

Jews wince at the connotations of Christian vs Jewish behavior. This is a fun example:

And Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.

In what season does a Jew feel particularly constrained by his religion not to fire someone?

A few days ago, Giraldi offered a far more logical explanation of the Weekly Standard’s demise, bt stating that Donald Trump’s election proves it’s no longer needed.

The death of this warmongering rag is a positively good thing, except insofar as it served as a monument to Jewish hypocrisy and double standards- thus as an eminent exemplar of Judeo supremacism- in an era wherein international justice is a joke.

Nothing wrong with a little self interest. Jewish Supremacy is a fine ambition, if your a Jew. Hypocrisy and double standards are just maneuvering techniques in the furtherance of that ambition.

Scholarly Christians have a vested interest in Jewish Supremacy because God is a Jew. That explains the inordinate support for Jewish Supremacy among western Christians.

Somebody has to be Supreme. It might as well be those who have the most experience and are best at being Supreme. Much like the choice between Trump and Hillary. Somebody has to run things.

David Brooks will oneway be here lamenting the demise ( or confinement to 4 blocks around Haifa) of Israel and blaming the pious Christians and in the process hurting the evangelicals just before Christmas for it . Nary a word also then that Israel was a Zionist project .

Weekly Standard was apparently all about democracy freedom and spread of equal opportunity and was never about religion after the canard started following 911 against religious extremism

Now this man has been trying same religious path to resurrect that abomination embodied by weekly Standard on human consciousness and find it a place again through the religious back door.
Shame on this intellectual anti American pervert.

Wait for his anti Syria withdrawal article to come up in NYT and be then quoted by Jennifer Rubin on WaPo who 2 days ago on MSNBC was blathering about Flynn and Turkey and did not say a word about Flynn Israel Russia UN Veto and Flyns’s Jewish channel in US.

Shoot me! . . . The big bucks behind the Weekly Standard was not a Jewish billionaire, but a Christian billionaire. For Christ’s sake, when will white people stop abetting Jews in their shenanigans? When whites whine about the inevitable demise of Western civilization, it can ring so hollow . . .

The Anschutzes look like crypto-Jews to me. Regardless, it’s pretty funny to hear a Jew kvetch about a “professed Christian”* firing a bunch of Jews at Christmas time. A bunch of Jews are supposed to be extra put out over being fired before Christmas why, exactly?

*(is that downlow-but-strong Jew (Brooks) code for “crypto-Jew”? We don’t see language like “professed Christian” that often in the NYT, do we?)

Yes, this sort of thinking explains all the pogroms and aunty-semytizm.

Ah, David, your little tirade is pretty pathetic. The Zionist/Neocon Weekly Standard wasn’t hijacked by a couple of fat cat corporate bureaucrats with greed and malice on their minds. The Weekly Standard really never had a large following and Rupert Murdoch pretty much picked up the tab to keep it rolling.

I found that it picked my day up a bit when I heard the Weekly Standard would no longer be spewing forth its destructive doctrines of supporting US world empire, written by Zionist chickenhawks with absolutely no skin in the game! I say good riddance, and may their tribe continue to decrease for the sake of liberty and family.

The Weekly Standard died by their own hand.

Joining the 50% decline in print media, which have gone the way of the dinosaur.

Offending the reader is not a good strategy for publications.

I’m trying to think of a reason to GAF that print is dead, but I’m drawing a blank.

It doesn’t level the playing field between Big Jew and uppity Whites, but it’s a few steps in that direction.

Steve, I saw this the first time ’round:

This photo of Vince Vaughn listening to an awards ceremony speech by Meryl Streep always reminds me of the Kipling poem: “When the Anglo-Lebanese-Italian-American Began to Hate:”

But just found it while go ogling for “Mel Gibson is my hero” and the like, and laughed MF ass off when I read it. Kudos.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/mel-gibsons-new-police-brutality-movie-is-a-vile-racist-right-wing-fantasy/

Based part-lebo generalissimos heading pogroms FTW.

Whenever I dream about Brooks’ supposed patriotism at night (which is admittedly, not very often) a slightly out of focus image suddenly comes to mind. It is a hazy picture of Brooks alongside his son who seems to be wearing an army uniform while proudly serving in his country’s military. The son is apparently a “true American patriot”, just like his father.

Oops, wait a minute. The picture has suddenly become sharper and his son seems to be wearing an Israeli army uniform.

How Brooks was allowed to continue to pontificate as an impartial observer about the situation in the Mideast when his son was serving on active duty in the Israeli Defense Forces (yes, a foreign army) truly shows just how corrupt the New York Times and PBS truly are.

Maybe Brooks should have also worn an Israeli army uniform while on TV and out in public to show people where his true sympathies lay. That would have made him slightly more ethical.

Shit, meant to post that in an iSteve thread. Drunken double-post inbound…

(which is admittedly, not very often)

LOL

My turds>Brooks Clan/Tribe

Oops, wait a minute. The picture has suddenly become sharper and his son seems to be wearing an Israeli army uniform.

LOL agin.

How Brooks was allowed to continue to pontificate as an impartial observer about the situation in the Mideast when his son was serving on active duty in the Israeli Defense Forces (yes, a foreign army) truly shows just how corrupt the New York Times and PBS truly are.

Yyyyyyyyyyup (except you shouldn’t re-use adverbs (“truly”) like that in a sentence. Sorry, BIT. LYA.)

P.J. is a very intelligent man who has written well about American foreign policy.

O, and he is hysterically funny

(((David Brooks))) is a”conservative” as well as an American patriot, just like (((Bill Kristol))) and the boys at the Weekly Standard.

OK, here’s my angle. The Weekly Standard died because it was redundant, and no longer needed.

The Weekly Standard was a totally corrupt NeoLiberal Rag dedicated to parroting the party line. Cheap-labor open-borders immigration, sell-out trade agreements, wasting trillions on endless pointless winless wars while starving the domestic economy of investment, wailing that Social Security and ‘entitlements’ are killing us while championing the funneling of tens of trillions of dollars in direct and indirect public subsidies and bailouts to Wall Street…

But the thing is, most corporate news rooms also parrot these lines. The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, etc.etc.etc.

So why pay for un-needed redundant capacity?

I predict that as the corporate news media continues to consolidate, that there will be an ongoing massive cull of journalists. Because if they are no longer going to do the hard work of investigating, if they are just going to take their corporate and government press releases, rearrange the paragraphs a bit, and print it, you don’t need a whole lot of staff for that now do you?

I don’t like the idea of this, mind you, but confess to a certain guilty pleasure at the prospect of so many go-along-to-get-along journalists ending up n the trash heap that they helped create…

Couldn’t the CIA have found something in their little magazines budget to keep this rag afloat?

The Jews (as a collective, not all those with a Jewish background) only “run things” in the sense that they run them into the ground. They have never, ever, run things well. What is one to expect from a lineage of scavengers, con artists, pimps, usurers and litigious social predators?

What “pogroms”?

We’ve heard about them, but have never seen proof of them.

Got that proof?