'You are a foul, disgusting liar': Weekly Standard editors blast Steve King for celebrating magazine
Source: Washington Post
‘You are a foul, disgusting liar’: Weekly Standard editors blast Steve King for celebrating magazine’s demise
When conservative magazine the Weekly Standard announced Friday that it was shutting down, writers from across the political spectrum bemoaned the loss. But two Republicans who recently found themselves in the Standard’s crosshairs weren’t waxing poetic about its demise.
After President Trump slammed the Standard as “pathetic and dishonest,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) jumped in on Sunday, writing on Twitter that Trump was “right” and that “if the articles targeting me were redacted until only truth remained, there would not be much left to read,” an apparent reference to a recent Weekly Standard report that the congressman had compared immigrants to “dirt.”
King had claimed the quotes in that piece were misconstrued, but the magazine later produced audio of the exchange.
“The problem with this tweet is that you are a foul, disgusting liar and a stain on American public life,” John Podhoretz, a Weekly Standard contributing editor and one of the magazine’s co-founders, wrote in response to King’s tweet. “The stench of your deceit and your views pollutes your district, your state, your party, and the United States.”
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are hard to find these days.
Never bought into their philosophy or view of life, but you could at least give them the benefit of the doubt.
No more.
Sad.
