Via Hotair, we learn that the once venerable Weekly Standard is about to get the axe, though pieces of the body may still run around like a chicken with its head cut off.
In recent years the standard, or its publisher, William Kristol- has gone insane. Trump has had that effect on lots of people.
The Weekly Standard got its start in the summer of 1995, the summer of Newt Gingrich. This was the high tide of post-Reagan conservatism, of Gingrichian policy ideas, wonkism, and dare we say neo-conservatism. I was there:
The Weekly Standard was linked to Newt, it even featured him on its inaugural cover. But Newt imploded, as is his want, in 1998 and we don't think the magazine ever really found its form again, at least not until the Iraq Campaign. Ever since the Weekly Standard has been in intellectual tatters, as was much of the right, a piece of the smoldering wreckage of Election 2008.
Oh well. The right has moved on from Neo-conservatism to Trumpism.
Alert reader(s) will recall that Kristol was Dan Quayle's chief of staff. He was the one standing in the classroom next to the veep saying, 'There's definitely an e at the end of Potato.'
Those same alert reader(s) will notice that Kristol has been getting more and more diabolical in the WW1990 series.
Murphy Brown, The TV show that ridiculed Vice President Quayle* for suggesting children needed fathers, and then extolled the virtues of serial sexual predator Bill Clinton will 'take on #metoo':
Creator Diane English told reporters Sunday that the revival of the newsroom sitcom will address the #MeToo movement, while star Candice Bergen is bracing for President Trump’s response to the show.
She should be so lucky.
During the 2016 campaign Diane English's Super PAC worked very hard to elect Hillary Clinton, who invented the 'nuts and sluts' slur against the women her husband assaulted.
Remember, Feminism is always bad for women.
*By the way, Candace Bergin later said Dan Quayle was right.
