• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

In after Baud. Damn.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

The revolution will be supervised.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Let’s finish the job.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Republicans in disarray!

Mobile Menu

  • Winnable House Races
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Balloon Juice 2023 Pet Calendar (coming soon)
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • War in Ukraine
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • 2021-22 Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Fineman Rooks Old Man

Fineman Rooks Old Man

by $8 blue check mistermix|  August 3, 20107:25 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: DC Press Corpse

FacebookTweetEmail

Howard Fineman has been promoting his role in the sale of Newsweek for $1 (and $70 million in debt) to 91-year-old Sidney Harman (the Harman in Harman-Kardon):

Fineman said he’s known Harman and his wife, Congressman Jane Harman, for many years. Their children all went to Sidwell Friends, the same elite school the Obama daughters now attend. Fineman said he doesn’t know Harman’s exact plans but described him as a “a deep guy” with varied interests in the arts and philanthropy.

Harman had better have a very deep interest in philanthropy, because he’s going to be pouring money into this sure loser for years to come. I wonder if Harman’s kids will still be friendly with the Fineman kids after they find out that Fineman Senior helped drain millions from their inheritance.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « First They Came for Wikileaks
Next Post: Open Thread »

Reader Interactions

22Comments

  1. 1.

    WereBear

    August 3, 2010 at 7:54 am

    I think it’s telling that the Mark in this case is 91 years old. I know old people who are on the Internet, but most of them are baffled and angry about it.

    My age (Gen Jones) seems to be the breaking point.

  2. 2.

    Earl

    August 3, 2010 at 7:55 am

    I couldn’t stop laughing after reading:

    I wonder if Harman’s kids will still be friendly with the Fineman kids after they find out that Fineman Senior helped drain millions from their inheritance.

    To be honest, I’m still chuckling…

  3. 3.

    Violet

    August 3, 2010 at 8:18 am

    Their children all went to Sidwell Friends, the same elite school the Obama daughters now attend.

    Of course they did. Just another example of how in touch our media is with the average person.

    Can we have term limits for media personalities? I think that might help things a lot.

  4. 4.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 3, 2010 at 9:11 am

    So you are saying that the publication will lose money no matter who owns it? Hmmm.

    I don’t know Harman but he did not get to be 91 by being an idiot. Perhaps he has some good lawyers and advisors.

    [70 million in debt? Wow. How did that happen?]

  5. 5.

    aimai

    August 3, 2010 at 9:28 am

    Look for the “Elderly Media Investor’s Bailout” coming to a taxpayer pocket near you.

    aimai

  6. 6.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    August 3, 2010 at 9:39 am

    Do you think Andrea Mitchell and Jane Harman compare corpses husbands?

  7. 7.

    cathyx

    August 3, 2010 at 9:39 am

    He’s 91and his wife is in her 60’s maybe? Wow.

  8. 8.

    Jared

    August 3, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Newsmax was in the running for a very long time. Had they made the buy, I would’ve laughed my ass off.

  9. 9.

    DougJ

    August 3, 2010 at 9:54 am

    Real Murkins all talk to millionaires they met via their kids’ elite schools.

  10. 10.

    Tim

    August 3, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Harman was smart enough to get rid of Jon Meacham right off the bat. He must know something if that was his first move.

  11. 11.

    The Moar You Know

    August 3, 2010 at 9:59 am

    He’s 91and his wife is in her 60’s maybe? Wow.

    @cathyx: Money, the ultimate female aphrodisiac.

  12. 12.

    El Cid

    August 3, 2010 at 10:29 am

    I’ll look forward to Newsweek in 5.1 surround so as to be entirely enveloped in banality.

  13. 13.

    Zifnab

    August 3, 2010 at 10:31 am

    They could be playing from the Washington Times book. Post whatever crazy nonsense you like, then get booked on all the Sunday Morning serious person talk shows.

    The Harmans are pretty well-known for their history of philanthropy, so it could be they are actually pushing some positive change. I wouldn’t mind seeing a less batshit insane press corps.

  14. 14.

    Shelton Lankford

    August 3, 2010 at 10:35 am

    It’s a present for Jane. She can use it full time as a platform for AIPAC’s agenda. America’s interests and Israel’s interests are one and the same, no difference… keep saying that until you believe it.

  15. 15.

    Jon H

    August 3, 2010 at 10:46 am

    So basically Jane Harman owns Newsweek. Especially after he dies, but even now.

  16. 16.

    barkleyg

    August 3, 2010 at 11:06 am

    YOU people sound like a bunch of Tea Peeing, Baby crying Repugs!

    Hows about: Maybe the Harmon’s want to save Newsweek, like someone should have “saved” the Los Angeles Times, before that anti labor ahole SAM ZELL bought and destroyed it less than 3 years ago.

    How’s about that Harmon must have many Hundreds of Millions, if not Billions of Dollars, and this is, and will be a “philanthropic” endevor his heirs will be proud of in the future?

    Two, more empathetic ways to look at a decision? Where did all the REAL liberals go?! Not saying my reasons are right, but I remember reading only one “positive” on this effort to save a historic weekly.

    Board is getting nasty, on one of our own political ilk. Are the REPUGS succeeding in their complaining that “it’s ALL the Democrats Fault”!!

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    August 3, 2010 at 11:34 am

    @barkleyg: Harman isn’t one of the most leftist Congresswomen in the Senate, she’s got a bad history on national intelligence and on Israel, and there is a general knee-jerk assumption that any change in the media climate is for the worst.

    So while it’s certainly possible that Sidney Harman is more George Soros or Warren Buffet than Rupert Murdoch or Koch Brothers, we’ve had a history of being burned.

  18. 18.

    Church Lady

    August 3, 2010 at 11:57 am

    I don’t know anything about old Sid, other than his company makes a kickass speaker. My car came equipped with them and they are the bomb! They beat the hell out of Boze.

  19. 19.

    jimBOB

    August 3, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    Any bets on which goes toes-up first, Sid or the rag? I’d say the rag.

  20. 20.

    ThresherK

    August 3, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Did they really drive up to Harmon’s house in an old van with a makeshift “Home Renovation” sign on the side? Because that scam is all over the teevees in suburban New England.

  21. 21.

    Andrew J. Lazarus

    August 3, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    I went to Sidwell, please let me know where to apply for my bailout.

  22. 22.

    fucen tarmal

    August 3, 2010 at 4:34 pm

    jesus, haven’t these elites ever heard of ghetto financing?

    buy newsweek, put up the dollar, and put it in the grandbaby’s name. hell anyone with a social security number will do. as long as the person isn’t going to need to buy anything, or own anything that can be taken away for the next 20 years or so…

    find some terri shiavo somewhere, make them the owner and publisher of newsweek, the braindead wouldn’t be the dumbest people to ever be influential members of the media establishment.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • gwangung on Open Thread: Exciting News — Andy Kim Is Contesting Menedez’s Seat (Sep 24, 2023 @ 2:30am)
  • unctuous on Friday Night Wind-Down Open Thread – David ‘BoBo’ Brooks Edition (Sep 24, 2023 @ 2:12am)
  • Joey Maloney on Open Thread: Exciting News — Andy Kim Is Contesting Menedez’s Seat (Sep 24, 2023 @ 1:16am)
  • Alison Rose on Open Thread: Exciting News — Andy Kim Is Contesting Menedez’s Seat (Sep 24, 2023 @ 1:09am)
  • sab on Open Thread: Exciting News — Andy Kim Is Contesting Menedez’s Seat (Sep 24, 2023 @ 1:06am)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
We All Need A Little Kindness
What Has Biden Done for You Lately?

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
TaMara
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Join the Fight!

Join the Fight Signup Form
All Join the Fight Posts

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Cole & Friends Learn Español

Introductory Post
Cole & Friends Learn Español

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!