#fred barnes

[yourdailyqueer]

Fred Barnes (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 31 May 1885  

RIP: 23 October 1938

Ethnicity: White - English

Occupation: Singer, songwriter

[veryslowreader]

Rebel-in-Chief by Fred Barnes

The Sopranos: "Walk Like a Man"

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Fred Barnes, c.1910′s.

[whiteguysdoingitbythemselves]

The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, is hosting a summit and all four featured speakers on the advertisement are white men.

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Fred Barnes by Dobson Studios, c.1910′s.

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Fred Barnes, c.1910′s.

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Fred Barnes, c.1910′s.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine critical of Trump, is officially shutting down

Despite interested buyers, the Weekly Standard will stop publishing after 23 years.

Jane Coaston at Vox: 

After 23 years in circulation, the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard — a home for anti-Trump conservatives over the past few years — is shutting down.

The news was announced at an all-staff meeting with the CEO of Clarity Media, the parent company of both the Weekly Standard and the Washington Examiner newspaper.

Founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard is best known as a publication aimed at “neoconservatives,” a branch of conservatism stemming from, in part, former liberals who were disappointed with the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and backed a hawkish foreign policy that centers on interventionism. (“Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world’s sole superpower,” wrote Kristol in 2003.)

But more recently, the Standard — and, in particular, Kristol himself — has proven a consistent, strident critic of President Donald Trump, and many blame the magazine’s problems on its “Never Trump” stance — it wouldn’t be the first time a conservative media company made cuts to align its brand closer to the president.

Staffers of the publication told me last week that financial pressures aren’t the main reason the 23-year-old magazine is shutting down. Rather, one source told me that the Standard’s owners “have worked to sabotage TWS every step of the way” and now want to harvest the magazine’s subscriber base to help support the Washington Examiner, which is now expanding into a nationally distributed magazine.