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Conservative Magazine Says ‘Bill Belichick for President!’
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, The Weekly Standard has been a standard-bearing Dump Trump hardliner. But in the magazine’s October 17th issue, contributor Geoffrey Norman proposes an actual alternative. A Real Winner Come November, I’m writing in Bill Belichick Variations on the … Continue reading
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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The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover and Writers – Again!
This is getting to be a habit, no? As the hardworking staff has repeatedly noted, The Weekly Standard has lately become a marketing chippy for its owner Philip Anschutz, who also owns Xanterra Parks & Resorts. As we wrote earlier: … Continue reading
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Ted Cruz Is So Desperate, He’s ‘Deputy’ Dogging Me
As the hardworking staff noted yesterday, GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (R-Jesus Loves You and I Might Too) has offered to make us a Deputy Delegate to the Republican National Convention in exchange for a modest donation to his campaign. … Continue reading
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
The Weekly Standard Just a Marketing Tool for Philip Anschutz
As the hardworking staff recently noted, The Weekly Standard has taken to pimping out its editorial content and its writers to Xanterra Parks & Resorts, the major concessionaire at U.S. National Parks. It’s bad enough the Standard has estimable writers … Continue reading
The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Another Writer to an Advertiser
As the hardworking staff noted several weeks ago, The Weekly Standard has taken to renting its writers out to ad clients. Last month it was Joseph Bottum who was auctioned off to Xanterra Parks & Resorts for a promotional piece … Continue reading
Things Go Better with . . . Koch?
For the past few years, the liberati have been on the Koch brothers like Brown on Williamson. And, apparently, that’s hurt the billionaire industrialists’ feelings. So they’ve launched a $15 million feel-good campaign designed to burnish their image. As part … Continue reading
Correction: Union-Busting Front Group Didn’t Hijack Jackie Robinson’s Photo – Just His Image
As the hardtracking staff [at Sneak Adtack] noted yesterday, corporate gunsel Rick Berman’s stealth non-profit, Center for Union Facts, has been running this ad lately in the Weekly Standard. That raised a couple of questions for us, one of which … Continue reading
Anti-Union Front Group Hijacks Jackie Robinson
The hardtracking staff’s kissin’ cousins at Campaign Outsider have written extensively about Rick Berman, the corporate gunsel who sets up stealth non-profit groups to front for the liquor, fast-food, tobacco, and restaurant industries. Oh, yes – and for any companies … Continue reading
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