Weekly Standard Sold to Creationist Conservative Billionaire

The Weekly Standard has been bought for an embarrassingly low price by a Christian fundamentalist billionaire, so don’t be surprised if you see them do a sharp lurch to the creationist side of reality: Weekly Standard” Going Creationist?

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has sold The Weekly Standard to Christian conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz ...

.... Anschutz, with a fortune estimated at close to $8 billion, already owns The San Francisco Examiner and The Washington Examiner newspapers.

....Anschutz has been an active patron of a number of religious and conservative causes. He helped fund Colorado’s 1992 Amendment 2, which was designed to overturn state and local laws prohibiting discrimination against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation.

He has also helped fund the Discovery Institute, which promotes intelligent design and criticizes evolution, and the Parents Television Council, an organization that protests against what it views as television indecency.

The Weekly Standard, of which the two top editors are William Kristol and Fred Barnes, is now likely to be taking a sharp turn toward creationism. Add that to Forbes’ promotion of creationism, and the Creation Museum Commercials on Fox News.