We never thought we’d live to see the day that the National Organization for Women would side with Michele Bachmann (or any other conservative woman, for that matter) on anything.
We never thought we’d live to see the day that the National Organiation for Women would side with Michele Bachmann (or any other conservative woman, for that matter) on anything. And we mean anything!
But clear the runway and get ready for the pig to take-off, because that’s exactly what’s happened.
Ology.com has the shocking details:
NOW, an organization that has received some criticism for its deafening silence when prominent conservative women like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are lampooned in the national press, has come out strongly against the depiction of Rep. Bachmann as the “Queen of Rage.”
“Who has ever called a man ‘The King of Rage?,’ NOW president Terry O’Neil told TheDC. “The ‘Queen of Rage’ is something you apply to wrestlers or somebody who is crazy. They didn’t even do this to Howard Dean when he had his famous scream.”
Of course, NOW doesn’t mention that Newsweek’s cover photo makes Bachmann look crazy as a loon, because, we assume, the lovely ladies of NOW live in a universe where all Republican women are crazy by definition.
Starting July 19, we hear, newsweek.com will no longer exist. Instead that URL will redirect users to a channel on the Daily Beast site, like its current “politics,” “entertainment,” and “fashion” verticals.
Back in August 2010 Sidney Harman, husband of California Democrat (pardon our redundancy) Congresswoman Jane Harman, bought Newsweek for $1.00. It appears now that he may have overpaid.
New York Magazine tells the tale of journalistic assisted suicide:
So sad: One less liberal website to praise President Obama
Right now if you go to newsweek.com, you’ll see a basic magazine website, updated with content from the print version of the mag and a top navigation bar that directs you to content on its sister site, dailybeast.com. But starting July 19, we hear, newsweek.com will no longer exist. Instead that URL will redirect users to a channel on the Daily Beast site, like its current “politics,” “entertainment,” and “fashion” verticals. The Newsweek channel will still have all the archived magazine content from before (unlike Time, Newsweek puts all of its print content online), and it will be edited and updated once a day to rotate features. Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown and Chief Digital Officer Daniel Blackman decided it made the most sense to have all-new non-magazine content appear on the Beast homepage. As it is, that’s how the system has been working for some weeks now, but the death of the newsweek.com URL marks the official end of what was once a fully staffed and hugely trafficked site in its own right.
IHateTheMedia.com will offer Harman $2.00 right now for the Newsweek.com url. No questions asked. No strings attached.
What do you say, Sidney? It’s not often you can double your money on a bad investment.
This past Monday started a dark week for the newsweekly. It now appears that it will be one of four dark weeks for the summer — two more than Tina Brown planned.
Ahhhh, Newsweek. A magazine with a storied past, but a bleak present and an even grimmer future.
Its staffers were undoubtedly mortified last year when the magazine sold for a mere $1, but now, in order to make the comeuppance complete, its new print schedule makes a mockery of the publication’s name.
Newsweek may cut back the number of issues it publishes, but we're certain it won't cut back on the number of Obama covers
The New York Post details the unscheduled rescheduling:
The partners behind Newsweek Daily Beast Company appear to be holding down the flow of red ink this summer by cutting back on the number of Newsweek issues.
This past Monday started a dark week for the newsweekly. It now appears that it will be one of four dark weeks for the summer — two more than Tina Brown planned.
The original editorial calendar showed only one dark week, surrounding the July 4 weekend.
Staffers now have been told that they will not have to work the week of July 18-22 since no issue will appear on July 25. They also can spend a little extra time at the beach the week of Aug. 15-19, since there will now be no issue on Aug. 22.
The Editor went to high school with an unfortunate girl whose last name was Gorgeous, but whose appearance wasn’t.
We hope she takes solace in the fact that she is no longer the most misnamed noun in the world.
On the cover of the latest issue of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, who once said that Obama is “sort of God,” decided to now call Obama the “God of all Things.”
Back in June of 2009, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas was derided by conservatives for his pronouncement that Obama is “sort of God.”
Now, thanks to the latest issue of Newsweek, we’ve learned what sort of God he meant — Shiva the Destroyer, the multi-armed supreme god of the Hindus.
As Wikipedia explains Shiva to we non-Hindus, “Adi Sankara … interprets Shiva to have multiple meanings: ‘The Pure One,’ or ‘the One who is not affected by three Gunas of Prakrti (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas)’ or ‘the One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.'”
Got that? The Pure One … The One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name …The One who is eternally pure …
He is The One and we are the ones we have been waiting for. All hail the merciful Barack Obama, The One and now the one true God of all things.
By the way, we’ve never seen this mentioned anywhere before, but in researching this story we came across the fact that Evan Thomas is the grandson of Norman Thomas, six time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States.
Newsweek introduces the concept of “super-negros” to explain why a really horrible TV show was canceled. Imagine the uproar if Fox had said the same thing. Race mongering writer Allison Samuels explains it all in Newsweek.
Newsweek introduces the concept of “super-negros” to explain why a really horrible TV show was canceled. Imagine the uproar if Fox had said the same thing.
Race mongering writer Allison Samuels explains it all in Newsweek:
I think it’s possible that a slightly more obvious, disturbing reason could be behind Undercovers’ failure, and it’s pretty familiar: race. Prime-time audiences just weren’t ready for “super-negros” on the small screen. And that’s exactly what Undercovers was: a show about black people doing very “unblack” things. Before anyone gets upset, let me explain. “Super-negro” was a term my family often used while watching old Sidney Poitier movies back in the day. In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (our favorite), Poitier portrays a black doctor in love with a white, wealthy young socialite during the ’60s. Pretty early in the film, you begin to realize that Poitier’s character is not just any black doctor (an accomplishment in itself for most people then, and now); he’s a black doctor with degrees from several Ivy League universities, an internationally known scholar behind cures of dozens of diseases in Africa and elsewhere. Overkill. But Poitier portraying a “regular negro” was simply not good enough during those times, so the “super-negro” was born. The same could be said of his character from In the Heat of the Night, a Philadelphia cop with highly decorated awards.
So if we understand Samuels’ logic, audiences 40 years ago accepted the super negro, but today’s audience won’t. Race relations, apparently, have gone backward in the last four decades.
According to HarperCollins.com, “Allison Samuels is an award-winning Newsweek correspondent who has covered sports and entertainment since 1996. Samuels is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Big Sisters of America, and the UCLA Black Studies Department board of directors. She lives in Los Angeles.”
Here’s another concept, Allison, you race mongering moron: Undercovers sucked. Absolutely sucked. It would have sucked if it had starred white actors. It would have sucked if it had starred Martian actors.
Well, no, actually, now that we think about it, Martian actors would have been pretty cool. Undercovers may have lasted a few more weeks if it had starred Martians as long as they weren’t super Martians. The American people just aren’t ready to accept super Martians.
Sidney Harmon, the 91-year old husband of California Democrat Rep Jane Harmon’s $1 bid for Newsweek has been accepted.
How do you make a small fortune in the magazine business? You start with a large fortune.
That’s what Sidney Harmon, the 91-year old husband of California Democrat Rep Jane Harmon, plans to do now that his $1 bid for Newsweek has been accepted.
The New York Times has the story:
President Obama is worried that Newsweek's new owner might change the magazine's longstanding policy of featuring him on the cover every week
According to several people who have been briefed on the process, Mr. Harman’s bid appealed to Mr. Graham and the Post Company because Mr. Harman has said he would retain a significant number of the magazine’s 325 employees. The financial details of the sale were not known, though one person with knowledge of Mr. Harman’s bid said last week that he would pay $1 in exchange for absorbing Newsweek’s considerable financial liabilities.
Newsweek has struggled through the recession more than most weekly news magazines, losing nearly $30 million last year alone. It was earning that much a year as recently as 2007.
And the longer it remained on the market, the less tenable its financial situation became. It has been an expensive product for the Post Company to produce, with its various international editions and separate back-office positions that were specific to the magazine. Instead of sharing a general counsel and accounting staff with the Post Company, for example, Newsweek has its own employees in those positions.
And if you’ll buy Newsweek, we have a bridge we’d like to sell you.
For god’s sake, man, we just ran IHateTheMedia.com through stimator.com and learned that this site is worth 3,684 times more than Newsweek. And our only liabilities are the lack of a proofreader and receding hairlines.
Newsweek, which once compared Barack Obama to God, has now compared Sarah Palin’s public speaking abilities to those of dimwitted South Carolina Democrat Kevin Greene.
Alvin Greene, a graduate of the Forrest Gump School of Public Speaking
Newsweek, which once compared Barack Obama to God, has now compared Sarah Palin’s public speaking abilities to those of dimwitted South Carolina Democrat Kevin Greene.
Forget those huge, enthusiastic crowds that Palin draws across America. They mean nothing. She’s the worst speaker in politics according to the sputtering news magazine:
Greene Threatens Sarah Palin as Worst Speaker in Politics
He’s just trying to talk about something, frankly.
Alvin Greene, the surprise Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, has a way with words. It’s the way, though, of Sarah Palin and George W. Bush—a tortured relationship with the English language that prevents him from making his points, and that says to voters he may not be up to the job.
Facing calls from fellow Democrats to drop out of the race—and even charges that he is a Republican patsy—Greene doesn’t help his cause with a front-page story in today’s Washington Post, where his verbal difficulties are on abundant display. From the candidate’s home in Manning, S.C., reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia lets Greene’s style speak for itself…
Where’s Dr. Kevorkian when we need him? This slow, painful death that Newsweek is going through is actually becoming painful to watch.
MSNBC, struggling to show that it’ still relevant, recently ran a story on its website from Newsweek, the magazine that makes the ratings-challenged cable news network seem successful by comparison. The title of the story was “The Importance of Joan Rivers.”
We're not sure if this is Joan Rivers or the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum version of Joan Rivers. But what's the difference?
MSNBC, struggling to show that it’ still relevant, recently ran a story on its website from Newsweek, the magazine that makes the ratings-challenged cable news network seem successful by comparison. The title of the story was “The Importance of Joan Rivers.”
No. Really. That was the title.
We can only assume that tired of lingering on it’s death bed, Newsweek is seeking to end it all by publishing stories such as “Alvin and the Chipmunks – That’s Entertainment!” That would, of course, would be almost as fascinating as the Joan Rivers story.
The article contains such insights as “The cameras followed Rivers for a year, beginning in mid-2008 when she turned 75, capturing moments of raw honesty often in the same scenes that display huge blind spots. In a limo on the way to a Comedy Central roast, Rivers whines to her assistant, ‘I am so depressed,’ because she’s anticipating the predictable jokes about surgery and aging. So why does she do it? For the money—not exactly a depressing motive. (After all, she has a staff and a gilded, faux-Versailles apartment to maintain.)”
We think that Newsweek may have dropped a 1 from the front of River’s age, but we are only guessing.
No matter what her age, Joan Rivers is barely relevant enough to qualify for a mention on IHateTheMedia. But that does give her a distinct advantage over MSNBC and Newsweek.
Newsweek revealed the Mainstream Media’s honeymoon with Obama is over. Now reporters can only find models in cop buddy dramas from the 1970s.
Starsky and Hutch seen here berating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for erecting a new apartment building project in East Jerusalem
A recent Newsweek article reveals that the Mainstream Media’s honeymoon with the Obama administration is officially over. Once reporters compared Barack Obama and his band of miracle workers to gods and heroes of the American Revolution, now they can only find models in cop buddy dramas from the 1970s.
Newsweek says that Hillary Clinton and Obama are the political equivalent of Starsky and Hutch. Why?
The magazine claims it’s because, like Starsky and Hutch, the two started out as political rivals, but now are working in seamless harmony to solve world peace and end global warming.
Do you remember the episode when Huggy Bear gave Starsky a tip about where the Iranians were storing the nuclear centrifuges?
If the media is running out of dynamic seventies duos to describe Obama and Clinton, here are some other possible analogies.
Laverne and Shirley. Two crazy dames manage to screw up everything, as they try to remain lovable. Special guest appearance by Joe Biden as Squiggy.
Cheech and Chong. The political leanings of these two old hippies may unfortunately too right wing for team Clinton-Obama.
Beau and Luke Duke. Bill Clinton makes guest appearance as Boss Hogg.
What about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
We’ll let you figure out which one would be Butch.
This is not a story about Michelle’s reported drinking problem. It’s a story about her belly hanging over the edge of the table in this Newsweek cover photo.
This is not a story about Michelle’s reported drinking problem. It’s a story about her belly hanging over the edge of the table in this Newsweek cover photo.
OK, so maybe we’re nitpicking. But if she’s going to continue lecturing us about childhood obesity and the evils of fast food, maybe she should remember that old saying about glass houses.
Magazines like Newsweek and Time are dying. And left wing weekly news magazines are dying faster than most. The New York Times, of all places, reports the story.
Perhaps more people would buy Time if they didn't do the same story every week
Alert the death panel. Magazines are dying. And left wing weekly news magazines are dying faster than most.
The New York Times, of all places, reports the story:
Magazines’ newsstand sales plummeted in the last six months of 2009, and subscriptions dropped as well.
Newsstand sales for the 472 consumer titles in the United States measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations declined 9.1 percent, to 39.3 million, in the last half of 2009 versus the same period a year earlier, the organization reported this morning. That follows an 11.12 percent decline from July through December 2007 compared to July through December 2008.
Some of the well-known titles with dramatic single-copy declines included W, down 41.7 percent to about 25,000 for an average issue; Newsweek, down 41.3 percent to about 62,000 (Newsweek had decreased the number of copies on sale, noted a spokesman) ; SmartMoney, down 37 percent to about 26,000; Time, down 34.9 percent to about 90,000; Good Housekeeping, down 30.7 percent to 395,000; and Redbook, down 30.1 percent to 126,000.
Hilarious. Newsweek says its circulation decreased because they reduced the number of copies on sale. We’re no publishing geniuses, but it seems to us that they may have that sequence of events reversed.
There’s nothing unusual about finding left wing crappola in Newsweek, so the article “Is The Tea Party Over?” hardly took us by surprise. Until we realized who wrote it.
Who is Newsweek's mysterious liberal writer?
There’s nothing unusual about finding left wing crappola in Newsweek, so the article “Is The Tea Party Over?” hardly took us by surprise.
It describes tea party members as “Veterans, deeply suspicious of the young liberal president and embittered, ironically, by Congress’s failure to keep its promise to give them government-run health care for life….gun-rights activists, who believed that their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was being put at risk by Barack Obama” and “The faces of talk-show fans, pushed into action by the apocalyptic warnings of personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Those two right-wing talkers had spent the past year telling listeners that the Democratic president was a racist who somehow managed to find the time also to be a Nazi and a communist.”
Talk about your crazy left-wing journalists. This guy sounded as if he was channeling Janet Napolitano and her fear of ‘military veterans’ who are “deeply suspicious” of “the young liberal president.”
Imagine our shock to find out that the article was written by Joe Scarborough. You know the “conservative” guy on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show? Not sure how to break this to you Joe, but most conservatives really seem to like our veterans, thank you very much.
Joe says the tea-party movement, which “should be celebrating its Massachusetts miracle, the collapse of health-care reform, and the destruction of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority” is instead “at the very moment … at risk of tearing itself apart.”
Scarborough used the rest of the article to criticize Glenn Beck, which is apparently a part of any MSNBC anchor’s contract and also part of a contest among all anchors on the network each month to decide who gets the best parking spot.
We’re not blaming Scarborough for the loss of his mind to liberal bias. In addition to working at MSNBC, he also spent six years in Congress.
We suspect that the combination of the two is more than even the strongest mind can endure.
Leftist publications must have been fully prepared for a Democrat loss in Massachusetts. Or they’re really fast typists. For example, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter posted an article that sounded promising – “The Message Democrats Should Hear From Massachusetts.” Well, sounded promising is about as good as it got.
Leftist publications must have been fully prepared for a Democrat loss in Massachusetts. Or they’re really fast typists.
For example, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter posted an article that sounded promising – “The Message Democrats Should Hear From Massachusetts.” Well, sounded promising is about as good as it got.
It started off fairly well, noting that “There’s no way for the Democrats to soft pedal the historic thumping that Republican Scott Brown delivered to Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.”
But the article quickly went South from there.
Asking “Is this a wake up call for President Obama? Yes. Does he need to show that he is listening more? Sure. But should this election kill health care? Don’t be ridiculous. Who elected Massachusetts to decide for the rest of the country whether we move forward on the bill?”
Not sure that anyone elected Massachusetts to do that, but we are pretty sure that the nation spoke out pretty firmly in the last few weeks to say that we’d rather have swine flu than this bloated pig of a bill.
But Newsweek is apparently home to math-challenged individuals like Alter who consider 33% a majority.
Ahhh, the poetry of the Chinese language. Hell, here in America, we’d just say I hate the media. And here’s another reason why.
"Climate change," President Obama said, "is like a fire breathing dragon that threatens the global village." "公牛狗屎," replied the Chinese Premier.
Ahhh, the poetry of the Chinese language. Hell, here in America, we’d just say I hate the media. And here’s another reason why.
Newsweek, that venerable publication devoted to defending traditonal American ideals (In English, that’s what’s known as a joke. In Chinese, it’s 笑话)…anyway, Newsweek recently published an article entitled “Why China and the U.S. Will Only Get Closer.”
Please allow us to summarize the article: Blah, blah, blah, China’s cool now and the US isn’t blah, blah, blah.
The comrade journalist who wrote the article says, “Having grown accustomed to dominance, many Americans now find China’s boom unsettling. After all, two states like this are historically expected to clash.”
But the article says this need not necessarily be our fate. “China need not become an adversary.” How can we avoid it, Newsweek? How? Simple. “Americans must come to terms with the reality that their own vaunted democratic system has often failed them.”
The article ends by revealing the reason the United States and China must become closer. It’s climate change. Of course. We should have known that Newsweek would somehow pin the future of democracy to the global warming scam.
公牛狗屎
That’s how you say bullshit in Chinese.
(Pardon us. We have to rush off and buy TheMediaIsLikeAWolfThatShouldBeKicked.com. We think it’ll be huge in 2010.)
Newsweek decided to do a story on “New Thought Leaders” and invited prominent people to talk about them. Jon Stewart (believe it or not) was ranked #2 and NBC News anchor Brian Williams got all gooey about Jon Stewart.
Representatives from Newsweek, NBC, Comedy Central and the New York Times prepare to congratulate each other
Newsweek decided to do a story on “New Thought Leaders” and invited prominent people to talk about them. Jon Stewart (believe it or not) was ranked #2 and NBC News anchor Brian Williams got all gooey about Jon Stewart.
Our advice: Stand back so you don’t get any on you.
In just the span of a short few years, Jon Stewart has gone from optional to indispensable. Case in point: when Jon went all Glenn Beck on Jim Cramer a few months back. A few of us blanched. Getting pissed, brimming with bile—that was so . . . MSM of him. And yet, in the niche-y, hip, and in-the-know world of late-night, media-skewering comedy, it had the impact of Cronkite turning against Vietnam … The old arc of a news story went like this: News happens. Media cover news. Audience reacts, then turns in for the night. For the past several years, however, there’s been another step added to the end of the process: being held to account for our faults by a comedy show with a sharp eye and a sharp tongue. How did we live without it?
Yeah, that’s pretty barf-inducing. But it gets worse and we expect your never-ending thanks for revealing this next item so you don’t have to waste any time reading it for yourself:
Newsweek also invited New York Times columnist Gail Collins to drool over Hilary Clinton as the #10 New Thought Leader.
Pardon us, but we think we’ll stick with the same old thoughts.
Funniest damn series of photos ever. News hag Andrea Mitchell desperately wants to waylay Sarah Palin to get a comment about Newsweek’s sexist cover photo, but police won’t let her through.
Funniest damn series of photos ever. News hag Andrea Mitchell desperately wants to waylay Sarah Palin to get a comment about Newsweek’s sexist cover photo, but police won’t let her through.
Mitchell: Sarah! Sarah! Can I get your autograph? Sign it, “To Alan, with love, Sarah.”
Valarie Jarrett and David Axelrod have been busy doing Olympic-sized damage control for the Greatest President In History. Damage caused, unfortunately, when the President listened to their advice.
President Obama with David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett. With friends like this who needs enemies?
Valarie Jarrett and David Axelrod have been busy doing Olympic-sized damage control for the Greatest President In History. Damage caused, unfortunately, when the President listened to their advice.
“The intelligence that we had from the U.S. Olympic Committee and Chicago bid team was that it was very close and therefore well worth our efforts,” said Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House adviser. “The message was that . . . a personal appeal from the president would make a huge difference.”
Does that mean if Obama had of skipped the trip that instead of coming in last we would have come in really, really last?
“Axelrod said, the president told his staff to send an advance team to Copenhagen just in case. “It was always in his mind that he wanted to go and would go,” Axelrod said. “But he needed to leave himself a little bit of room in case healthcare was on the floor.”
We’re sure Axelrod meant to say “or something may go wrong in Iran or Israel or Iraq or Afghanistan or North Korea.”
Mr. President, may we respectfully suggest that you run an ad on CraigsList.com. We’re pretty confident you can find some better advisors there than the ones you have now.
First Newsweek criticized President Obama and now the Washington Post is upping the ante with even harsher criticism.
You know reality is finally sinking in among liberals when the Washington Post notices that President Obama is an empty suit
Pigs may not be flying, but they’re warming up on the tarmac. First Newsweek criticized President Obama and now the Washington Post is upping the ante with even harsher criticism:
Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.
The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a “war of necessity” — and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health-care plan — and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees — and then again maybe he would.
Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health-care legislation — “Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town . . . ” — and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence — meet it or else.
Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was, and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran.
We don’t mean to offend the Washington Post, but they sounding almost conservative.
Howard Fineman: The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube.
Linguists and liberal Democrats have just discovered that "Barack" is the Swahili word for "empty suit."
Howard Fineman takes to the pages of Newsweek to say the words Obamaniacs do not want to hear, especially not from another lib:
Barack Obama is an empty suit.
The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story. Continue reading “Newsweek speaks the unspeakable: Obama is an empty suit”
Watching Newsweek is like watching the Bataan Death March. Only uglier.
Times are tough at the weekly news magazine. Last year, its circulation dropped from 3.1 million to 2.6 million. It is expected to drop to 1.9 million by July and again to 1.5 million by next January.
In response, it is launching a new smaller design, moving to a heavier paper stock, and putting more emphasis on photography. But the biggest news is that Newsweek is abandoning in-depth coverage of the week’s news.
We’re no publishing experts, but if Newsweek is abandoning weekly news coverage, we think they might want to find a name, too.
Air America is going into the syndication business. And its first outside client is a Newsweek Magazine radio production called “Newsweek On the Air.”
In keeping with Air America’s corporate mission statement, the program has been on the air for 27-years, but no one is known to have ever actually listened to it.
In reality, this isn’t news. It’s merely the continuation of a long, friendly relationship between the two lib media sources. Like when Chris Dodd goes to dinner with Ted Kennedy.
For example, back in 2004 when Air America first hit the airwaves, Newsweek covered the event with an effusive story that was long on compliments and short on reality.
It is surely no coincidence that this “big” announcement falls on a week in which Newsweek’s cover story attacks conservative icon Rush Limbaugh, Air America’s arch enemy.
This really is an almost Zen-like concept: A radio network no one listens to syndicating a program no one’s ever heard from a magazine no one reads.
Back in June of 2009, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas was derided by conservatives for his pronouncement that Obama is “sort of God.”
Leftist publications must have been fully prepared for a Democrat loss in Massachusetts. Or they’re really fast typists.
Air America is going into the syndication business. And its first outside client is a Newsweek Magazine radio production called “Newsweek On the Air.”