Comments on: Chris Hughes: crafting a sustainable non-apology

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:41:55 +0000

Remember that when the Left talks about corporate sharks and mega corporations ruling over the people, they are mostly thinking of themselves. They know these people exist, because they are them or they know someone like that on their side, this resource exploiting lizard in executive dress.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:06:39 +0000

And I’m more than willing to acknowledge that Hollywood puts out some excellent movies that stir the emotions while controlling the narrative.

Hollywood is a village idiot playing with sh, compared to the great art in the rest of the world.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:38:44 +0000

Maybe he envisions TNR being more along the lines of Rolling Stone.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:31:54 +0000

“Hughes’ piece is emblematic of how to “craft” a self-serving pile of verbiage that carefully avoids saying anything honest.”

Heh, that sounds exactly like his political idol—and the people that particular idol surrounds himself with.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:56:56 +0000

But he reads Balzac in French, don’t cha know.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:13:06 +0000

Chris Hughes thinks he is smart because he is rich. Nothing could be further from the truth.

By: parker

parker — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:06:44 +0000

If we can hold on long enough, the progressives will self destruct and our grandchildren can rebuild a society based upon life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Meanwhile, those who get their ‘news’ from rolling stone or jon stewart still flock to the false narrative of the leftists.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:58:29 +0000

Yep, Hughes sounds like a douche. And yet…..still can’t muster any sympathy for the TNR crowd. As a liberal/progressive publication they’ve likely been (since I’m not a reader) behind other progressive efforts to overthrow (or “modernize”) American and Judeo-Christian values and culture. And they thought their industry, their cherished perch at TNR would be immune to “change we can believe in.” What fools.

Hughes as TNR Editor and Publisher reminds me of other young, not terribly experienced folks whose position exceeds their qualifications, such as Josh Earnest, Jen Psaki, Marie Harf, Tommy Veitor, Ben Rhodes…

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:49:08 +0000

Oh, my -- Dana Milbank calls Hughes "a dilettante and a fraud."

By: blert

blert — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:56:22 +0000

Like the quasi-demise of Newsweak, this is the inevitable transition for yet another BELTWAY publication — written (largely) for the Beltway crowd. (and ideological fellow travelers)

More than anything — the travails are that of the old guard versus the next crew.

One aspect of that shift will be a SEVERE trimming in the wage packets for the staff.

I, for one, don’t believe for a second that Hughes’ antics with the old guard were anything but a larger strategic move.

It’s SO much cheaper when the old guard quits on their own.

I once had an employer who went out of his way to pull such antics for this very reason. He’d lay off any ordinary soul. But for long time troopers that he’d had a ‘change of heart’ he refused to fire them. Instead, he went oven the top with insults — in word, deed, and status.

He could not contain his glee when he succeeded yet again.

From first to last, Hughes manipulated the TNR staffers. What a shock must come when these toffs discover that they’ve re-entered the prole class.

The ranks of poverty stricken Leftist scribes are boundless. No doubt additional apparats will troop on in.

One should also expect a MAJOR trimming in the TNR rent, too. (Shades of Newsweak.)