OK, so I was never a subscriber to The American Spectator back in its heyday, but they published P.J. O'Rourke, and he's the first political humorist I ever really enjoyed. Come to think of it, I used to regularly read the TAS website on a pretty regular basis, and I did read voluminous back issues of the magazine while killing time at my undergraduate institution. (I even read the David Brock articles; I'm not sure that should be admitted or not in light of his most recent past...)

Anyways, after some post-Clinton shakeups in the conservative media industry, the original Spectator helmed by R. Emmitt Tyrell went "away". I say "away" because it's been a long time since this went on and I don't recall all the details, but the end result is that RET and others were no longer calling all the shots at TAS.

There was an interim action fought by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, dubbed The American Prowler, and it appears that things have come full circle: The cartoon turkey prowls no more, and the Spectator lives again "back where we started at the height of the Clinton glory". It's always good to have more conservative voices in the print media; celebrations all around. You'll find a permanent link to TAS under The Weekly Standard over on the right-hand side.

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