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Tag Archives: Matt Labash
Kristol Clear: Weekly Standard Has Sold Off Editorial Integrity
During the past six months the hardworking staff has chronicled the pimping out of The Weekly Standard’s writers to Xanterra Parks and Resorts (“the largest National Parks concessionaire”) in a series of feature stories on national parks that erased the line … Continue reading
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Our Email to The Weekly Standard About Selling Out Its Writers
As the hardworking staff has recently noted, the Philip Anschutz-owned Weekly Standard has been playing footsie with the Philip Anschutz-owned Xanterra Parks & Resorts in a series of pieces lauding the National Parks that lard Xanterra’s coffers. What puzzles the headscratching staff … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Transjenner Edition)
Well the hardworking staff was cleaning up some of the piles of reading material scattered about the Global Worldwide Headquarters when we came across this recent piece by The Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash. Transjennered America Hero worship in our time. … Continue reading
Matt Labash Makes Kim Jong Ill
The hardworking staff has long been an un(L)abashed fan of Weekly Standard feature writer Matt Labash, and his latest piece makes us even more so. Troublemaker for Tyrants Thor Halvorssen hammers the Kims From the moment his dead-of-night emails, texts, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Brooks, Davos for Dissidents, Hugo Chavez, Human Rights Foundation, Ji Seong-ho, Jimmy Wales, Kang Chol-hwan, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong Un, Kin Jong-il, Leopoldo López, Matt Labash, North Korea, Now Action Unity and Human Rights, Oslo freedom Forum, Park Sang-hak, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Sidney Awards, South Korea, The Interview, The Weekly Standard, Thor Halvorssen, Yeon-mi Park
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Healing Waters For Disabled Vets
In the wake of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s admirable exposé of the disgraceful Disabled Veterans National Foundation fundraising scam, it was nice to see this piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal about Project Healing Waters, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Clean Gene Edition)
From Matt Labash’s lively Occupy New Hampshire Primary piece in the current Weekly Standard: [A septuagenerian Occupier] puts a nice capper on the evening and, indeed, on the whole New Hampshire primary experience: “It’s like Senator Eugene McCarthy used to say, … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street Mediapalooza
Once around Zuccotti Park, James, and don’t spare the horses: • NPR’s All Things Considered chin-stroker on the media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests • Media Research Center’s protest that “the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) news networks … Continue reading
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Ave Atque Vale, The (Late, Lamented) Weekly Standard
The hardworking staff has long been a fan (we were a charter subscriber in the mid-90s) – and also a critic – of The Weekly Standard, which officially folded on Friday. For over two decades we’ve found the magazine’s political … Continue reading →