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Sarah Palin Outlasts Jon Meacham’s Pretentious Back Side

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 5th, 2010 at 11:53 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Jon Meacham, the overly pretentious editor of Newsweek, has finally succeeded. He has driven Newsweek into the ground.

Meacham and the rest of the Newsweek gang decided to turn Newsweek into leftwing political pornography in order to get access to Barack Obama. Increasingly, their audience has shrunk to a few blocks on the Upper West Side, various newsrooms, Democrat offices in Washington, and some college libraries.

The rest of the world jumped to Time, which still at least pretends to be unbiased, or got off the weekly circuit altogether.

Only recently Newsweek suffered the indignity of having to move office space.

Apparently, literary intimate acts with the Obama White House while also attacking Sarah Palin just cannot sustain traffic in the already over saturated marketplace of leftwing propaganda and Meacham has never been willing to go as far as Larry Flynt except when it comes to bashing Christians.

Well done, Jon. But don’t worry. I’m sure you can furrow your brow and cash in on your “enlightened Southern Episcopalian” card to keep up appearances and rube bashing.

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  • Dan McLaughlin

    Heh.

  • Section9

    Until Meacham and the lib crowd decided to turn it into the New Republic with pictures. NR has better writing, anyway.

  • Finrod

    Back in the 1980s before I was on the Internet, I had a subscription to US News and World Report, which wasn’t really conservative but not knee-jerk liberal like Time and Newsweak were. I balanced it out with a subscription to National Review.

    Time has always been liberal, they just pretend to be unbiased in nearly exactly the same way that CNN does– which since they have the same corporate parent, shouldn’t be all that surprising.

  • muggedbyrealism

    Apply to Erick and OPs as well? What do mean by “the Upper West Side.” Have you been there? Do you know people from there? Or are you just stereotyping and making prejudicial comments about a generalized group of people, the sort of you decry when applied to conservatives?

    I grew up on the Upper West Side. My parents did. So did my grandparents. The Upper West Side is ethnically diverse, populated with very conservative Jews, and was home to a number of people who died in 9/11. If you don’t like identity politics, don’t play them yourself.

    National politicians on the right get up at national conventions and decry “Hollywood values” and are applauded. What would happen if a Democratic politician got up at a national convention and mocked “Texas values” or “Georgia values”? He or she would be vilified, and people on this site would scream.

    It used to be “New York values” was code for “liberal Jews.” Is that what you’re getting at here, Eric? If you want to use New York, and the World Trade Center, as a rallying cry, then have some respect for the people who live there.

  • charlesmartel

    You know exactly what he meant. Stop trying to stir up trouble where this is none. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is, and has been, overwhelmingly populated by wealthy liberals. This is a fact, verifiable via any “donations by zip code” measurementHe meant nothing beyond that, and he certainly said nothing about 9/11 or Jewish people or anything else in your fevered rant.

  • Achance
  • Leopard1996

    But I think you are an idiot if you don’t think people in Hollywood or N.Y.C don’t refer to folks that live no more than 25 miles outside of their worlds as hayseeds, hicks, rednecks, religious zealots, and the list goes on and on. I was originally from the Jersey Shore before I moved out to Ohio, and got a full dose of the attitudes of the NYC folks no matter where they came from. How dare you come onto this site and accuse anybody of using code words that are anti-semitic. So either reevaluate or move along. We don’t need mealy mouthed asshats in our ranks.

  • Leopard1996

    But being from the East coast and dealing with N.Y.C tourists every summer just brought up my hackles with this seminal douchebag.

  • RedBeard

    Why not just assume that Erick was bashing the large homosexual population of the UWS? That makes as much sense as your accusation does.

    Or could it be that Erick was simply referring to the Upper West Side’s reputation as an artsy upper-crust elitist enclave?

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    for smug liberals.

    It’s also apparently troll bait. Blam.

  • RedBeard

    And the Titanic was owned by the White Star Line, which failed and was bought out, and eventually killed off entirely.

    Is there a lesson here? [/snark]

  • Leopard1996

    I give it a 10 all around.

  • Achance
  • RedBeard

    There’s probably a cream for that, by prescription.

  • itrytobenice

    And this guy proves it yet again.

    I suspect the ban hammer is going to get a *lot* of use as we get closer to Nov. Ds don’t take well to losing and I think we’re going to see a *lot* of D losing.

  • liandro

    I was reading over here a bit, followed a link to Politico (Obey dropping out!), and started reading over there a bit. What did I find?

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0510/WaPo_to_sell_Newsweek.html

    Apparently WaPo prefers to MAKE money, and Newsweek doesn’t cut it. Didn’t read the whole thing but thought I’d mention it, heh.

  • liandro

    Point: interesting to see the news being covered everywhere. =)

  • nepanyrush

    What an over hyperventilated response to the simple statement that Newsweek is purchased by, among others, those living “, in a few blocks on the Upper West Side.” How in the world do you turn this into a racist statement about those of the Jewish faith? By the way, as a person who worked and lived in the Upper West Side for about ten years, it is a liberal haven. Clearly, that is all that was meant by the OP.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    And dedicate it to the unvarnished truth. There needs to be a “respected” name out there that offers a clear-eyed, realistic look at the real world as it exists, as opposed to the shared delusion of NR, Time, CNN, and the rest of the progressive propaganda mills.

  • Leopard1996

    Socialist = N-word
    Upper West Side = Jew Baiting
    Tea party = terrorist plot

    Any others that folks can think of adding, let me know. It’s amazing that they feel they can push their projections on to us, and everyone seems to buy it.

  • romeg

    NOT!!!

  • liandro

    It would be plenty just to avoid having the liberal agenda slipped (or sometimes crammed) into the reporting.

    I love to read; I’ll read anything near me if there is the chance. If I’m waiting somewhere and there is a news periodical of some kind, I dive right in. It gets frustrating when, time and again, these “news” sources are blatantly tinting their coverage. Do they think I can’t see it?

    I don’t expect, or even want, them all to take a conservative stance, but it would be fantastic if they wouldn’t take a stance at all. Just give me the facts, tell me the story. At least cram your bias down in an attempt to be impartial.

  • WoodstockRedCat

    Happy Dance, Indeed!

  • aesthete

    but it’s always good to see the Precambrians in the news media continue their spiral downwards.

  • azaeroprof

    She’s like those punching bags we had when we were kids that when you knocked them over, they popped right back up. She may well end up being the only one standing.

  • RedBeard

    I’m with the majority who don’t want her to enter the presidential race, and the same majority who really like her doing what she is doing right now, tweaking the noses of the leftists.

  • Tbone

    “In a statement, Graham said the magazine “might be a better fit elsewhere” given the current climate. ”

    That way it would fit in the bottom of cages better.

  • acat

    Assuming, of course, it survives whatever filters Red State has in place.

    Conservative = Fascist
    Conservative = Klansman
    Conservative = Bigot

    (braces for impact…)

    Mew

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    I do not think I can recall the last time I looked at any of the dead tree media. I forgot they still existed.

  • toadold

    It seems to be a common feeling amongst the liberal MSM that there are enough liberals out there to support media that will cater to there beliefs.
    So Air America tried it and died. The NY Times is going down the drain.
    Broadcast TV viewership is declining. On cable news Fox is spanking them hard. MSNBC is going down. Big star, A movies are losing out.
    Poll after poll shows the majority of people don’t like the leftist media.
    But they keep trying the same old same old.

    Wa Po will sell off Newsweak but whole will buy Wa Poo?

  • rfpzzzzz

    Meacham is a genuine pompous ass. His bizarre religious column with Sally Quinn has really been a strange venture. Every so often it is nice to see someone fail. I hate to say that but …oh well.

  • arnd

    Newsweek should just die off. No one should try to save it. The big media should get a lot smaller because it is too insulated and knows nothing about how the public feels on major issues.

    Back in the 1990s, the lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn wrote this about the Clinton/Lewinsky press coverage:

    “Did the pundits make fools of themselves? Yes, indeed. They made incredible, unforgivable misjudgments about public opinion. This is because most of the pundits clustered in the studios of the networks, MSNBC and PBS are stupid, largely right-wing people who talk only to each other, read only each other and in consequence have very little contact with external reality. They should all be fired. ”

    Love the “largely right-wing people” comment about MSNBC!

    Also he wrote:

    “There is, these days, not much actual reporting in mainstream, corporate journalism. Within the circumference of the entire media-industrial complex, the space given over to unearthing of facts is minuscule in comparison to the opinion-mongering facilities, gigantic smokehouses of punditry the size of a thousand football fields. ”

    There are too many isolated, ignorant “media people” (Frank Rich, anyone?) who comment on the Tea Parties, immigration, etc, without leaving the comfort of their offices and TV studios. Newsweek has been part of this problem.

  • RedBeard

    I don’t trust any journalists who think that the space between the Hudson River and San Bernardino is called The Wilderness.

  • eheassler

    Perhaps Jon Meacham might find a more receptive readership and feel more comfortable if he moved his operation to Venezuela or Cuba. He might even take President Obama with him. Good riddance to Newsweek!

  • liberty131911

    Ok ‘muggedbyreality’ and all of your brethren. We get it. You can’t win the argument. You never could win the argument. You’re afraid to debate the issues. You have no facts on your side and Yes, we know, you really are the smartest guy in the room it’s just that we’re so busy clinging to our God and our guns that we don’t appreciate your stellar intellect so, you call us names.

    So let me be absolutely clear, are you ready, got you pencil and paper to take notes? and I know you can’t see it, but I’m typing really slowly and speaking loudly to myself as I type.

    I know exact who I am!!! And when you call me and MY brethren names, I know exactly who you are!!!

    I will continue to pray for you.

  • Leopard1996

    Just from how he/she has been pissing on this site, I wouldn’t piss on him/her if they were on fire, let alont pray for them.

  • soljerblue

    it’s called Preparation H

  • rightwingmom52

    he called Meacham a “Southerner.” Yes, he was born, raised and educated in the South, but is he a Southerner at heart? I don’t think so.