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Trump's Worst Nightmare: Jennifer Rubin Leaves Washington Post To Launch 'Pro-Democracy' Website
WFB ^ | 13 Jan 2025 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 01/13/2025 3:56:06 PM PST by Rummyfan

Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism, finally “resigned” from the Washington Post on Monday and launched a “pro-democracy” website, the Contrarian, on Substack. In a note announcing her alleged resignation, less than a week after the Post laid off roughly 100 employees in an effort to stop losing $77 million a year, Rubin accused the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, of sabotaging journalism’s “sacred mission” of “defending, protecting and advancing democracy.

The Contrarian is built on a premise some would describe as delusional. In Rubin’s view, the mainstream media have been too soft on Donald Trump, if not openly supportive of his MAGA agenda. Mainstream journalists have been too afraid to criticize him and alert the public to the existential threat he poses to American democracy. They’ve been too polite to fight back by lashing out Trump’s voters for ignoring the experts and making the wrong decisions.

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A press release circulated by the Dewey Square Group, a political consultancy founded by former Democratic operatives, heralded the list of contributors as “a broad range of respected voices in law, politics, foreign policy, and culture.” It’s actually a bunch of people you’ve never heard of with utterly predictable opinions about everything:

Esosa Osa, a former adviser to Stacey Abrams. David Litt, a former speechwriter and “comic muse” for Barack Obama. Ilan Goldenberg, a Middle East expert who helped John Kerry negotiate the Iran nuclear deal. Karen Agnifilo, defense counsel for Luigi Mangione. Mike Podhorzer, the former political director of the AFL-CIO. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a fascism expert from New York University. Kim Lane Scheppele, a Princeton professor at the University Center for Human Values. Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor and author of the book In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate.

1 posted on 01/13/2025 3:56:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

NOT the BB?


2 posted on 01/13/2025 3:56:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah, I’m sure that President Trump won’t sleep a wink.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 3:57:29 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Rummyfan

Another website that nobody will look at.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 3:58:26 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Rummyfan

Andrew Stiles is an idiot.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 3:59:28 PM PST by Fledermaus (7 DAYS TO SANITY!)
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To: Rummyfan

Not a fan of this woman

Not a fan of the sandwich

(Yes, I know they aren’t spelled identically)


6 posted on 01/13/2025 4:00:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism …
😅🤣😂😆😁😄
7 posted on 01/13/2025 4:00:51 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Rummyfan

Hilarious headline Jennifer Rubin the ferocious lioness of partisan reporting is increasing the decibel level of her “meow.”


8 posted on 01/13/2025 4:00:59 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Rummyfan

“Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism”

With those words it is the author that is more delusional than Jennifer Rubin and obviously is tightly encased in an intellectual bubble.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 4:01:42 PM PST by Wuli
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'Pro-Democracy'

Not interested in hearing from anyone who can't figure out the country is intended to be a republic.

10 posted on 01/13/2025 4:01:44 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Fledermaus

Just take a look at the pic he’s got up, you won’t have to read a word.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 4:02:48 PM PST by sopo
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Generally speaking, as best I can see, these websites and podcasts survive and grow at a rate independent of content.

All that matters is the advertising sales staff. Good ones can sell ice cream to eskimos.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 4:02:49 PM PST by Owen
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To: Rummyfan

Damn. 47 should probably step down before inauguration day. S


13 posted on 01/13/2025 4:03:33 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: Rummyfan

OH NOES salad bowl head is leaving the Compost what shall we do


14 posted on 01/13/2025 4:03:55 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Paladin2

MY BS alarm went of before I got to the second sentance.


15 posted on 01/13/2025 4:04:13 PM PST by dblshot
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To: Rummyfan

Leftists are such losers.


16 posted on 01/13/2025 4:04:32 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Fledermaus

Dittos. The Free Beacon usually has better than this.


17 posted on 01/13/2025 4:05:10 PM PST by Fungi
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Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism

1a58dk
18 posted on 01/13/2025 4:07:11 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Fledermaus

“Trump’s Worst Nightmare”

Yeah i’m sure he is terrified.


19 posted on 01/13/2025 4:07:26 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: Wuli

I only read the first paragraph. Is this satire?


20 posted on 01/13/2025 4:07:40 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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