This one is TOO funny...
Not the story itself, but afterward...
New Commentary Editor Denies Neo-Nepotism
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To some within the neoconservative movement, the announcement of John Podhoretz as the next editor of Commentary magazine — the same job his father, Norman, held for 35 years — is the best of all possible choices. It is a model of what Adam Bellow (son of the Nobel-winning novelist Saul) called the “new nepotism,” combining the “privileges of birth with the iron rule of merit.”
But to others the decision reeks of the “old nepotism,” in which the only credential that matters is the identity of your father — in Mr. Bellow’s cosmology, less like the Roosevelts than like Tori Spelling getting an acting job because her father was Aaron Spelling.
“I think some people are pretty shocked,” said Jacob Heilbrunn, whose book “They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons” is coming out in January. John Podhoretz, movie critic for The Weekly Standard magazine and a political columnist for The New York Post, “isn’t seen as a heavyweight intellectual,” said Mr. Heilbrunn, who has discussed the appointment with several neoconservatives. Rather, “he is seen as being a beneficiary of his parents’ fame in the George W. Bush mold.”
The complaints don’t mean that the newly named editor is without ardent fans. Many people still consider him to be “the standard bearer for neoconservatism,” Mr. Heilbrunn said, the perfect choice to carry on the magazine’s tradition and revive its readership.
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Is it the same old nepotism?...probably...
But remember folks...This is from THE NEW YORK TIMES...
The newspaper that's been owned by the SAME FAMILY(Ochs-Sulzberger) for the last 109 years and whose CURRENT PUBLISHER just so happens to be named Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr...
This is like Paris Hilton calling Lindsey Lohan a drug user...
10-26-2007, 03:43 AM
New Commentary Editor Denies Neo-Nepotism
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