> [If this guy finds PJ O'Rourke funny, you gotta wonder...]
>
> LA Weekly - AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2002
>
> ON
> Bubble Wrap
> The Nation vs. The Weekly Standard
> by John Powers
>
> An audience is like a broad. If you're indifferent, Endsville.
> - --Frank Sinatra
>
> AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER THE NATION HAS been the journalistic
> lodestar of the American left. Now, in its 137th year, the magazine
> is on a commercial roll. Its subscriptions have risen steadily in the
> wake of the World Trade Center attacks. Its finances may actually
> break even (a miracle in the world of political magazines). And its
> publishing adjunct, Nation Books, is raking in money from two hot
> titles: Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Forbidden
> Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié. Indeed,
> everything's going so well that I feel kind of churlish in pointing
> out what most on the left are unwilling to say: The Nation is a
> profoundly dreary magazine.
Let's see now, The Nation has an increasing audience because it's dreary? It may even break even financially for the first time in ages because it's dreary (an unheard of situation for a political mag)?
Help, help, more people are reading The Nation, make em stop.
Sure, sure. Look, readers, don't waste your time reading the Nation. It's dreary, see? I don't read it, I read the right wing mag the Weekly Standard, because the Nation is so dreary. It doesn't have any fun loving broads like Ann Coulter. So, don't read it.
Got it? Sheesh! Does crap like that really work?
-- John K. Taber
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