"To The Right Of Attila The Hun"

I suppose it might be appropriate, as the intended audience for Boston and Philadelphia Magazines is upscale suburbanites and not actual city dwellers, but it's still a pretty awesome attitude to have when (in the case of Philadelphia) you have a city in which whites are not the majority of the population and 75%+ of its population are Democrats.

David Rosenbaum, editor of Boston from 1986 to 1991, said Lipson did not care much for editors, but tolerated them when profits were robust. “When the economy turns and it [the magazine] gets skinny, he figures the editor is an idiot,’’ he said.

And they often paid a price: A dozen editors came and went between 1975 and 2000.

Rosenbaum said Lipson frequently pushed him to be irreverent, “going after poor people, Democrats, the handicapped, minorities,’’ he said. “He’s to the right of Attila the Hun. At least he was. I haven’t spoken to him since the day he fired me.’’