Manhattan Strip Clubs: Why Can’t Media Acknowledge That Rolling Stone Is On the Radical Left?
These were surely more surprising pieces for the magazine than Sean Wilentz’s 2006 cover story on George W. Bush, titled “The Worst President in History?” Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg once wrote that “Rolling Stone has essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee.” So it’s worth noting that the magazine — which Wenner says has a “mission” to promote “social justice” — is assailing Obama from the left.
Wenner says he is “disappointed” by much of Obama’s White House record and “disturbed that some pattern is emerging. It’s naive to think you’re going to change American policy by compromising on a lot of stuff.” He says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar should have been fired over the BP debacle and that the administration’s financial regulation bill “gets weaker and weaker” over time.
Wenner says he is still “rooting” for Obama but hasn’t been invited to the White House: “I’m not part of the gentleman’s club.”