Posted on 01/26/2025 8:46:15 PM PST by Angelino97
Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday and lambasted her former employer, accusing the Washington Post of trying to “ingratiate” themselves with President Donald Trump.
“They seem to think that their own press outlet should be muzzled, should be quieted, should not upset Donald Trump so much. And so you see, for example, the refusal to endorse Donald Trump, which was the editorial position of both the Los Angeles Times, owned by another billionaire, and the Washington Post,” she said.
Rubin, a former conservative writer who announced during Trump’s first administration that she was no longer a conservative, recently quit the paper after its owner, Jeff Bezos, stopped the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
“You also see these billionaires giving money to the President of the United States. And yucking it up there on the dais. That is not how an independent free press behaves. Their obligation is to the public, not to themselves, to advance their own businesses, and certainly not to ingratiate themselves with Donald Trump,” Rubin added.
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Even leftists will find this carping extremely tedious soon.
RIGHT!!
Looks like a self portrait.
Jennifer probably expected a far larger hue and cry when she flounced out from the Washington Post a few weeks ago.
Truth is, she had already overstayed her welcome and her sphere of greatest influence some 25 years ago.
Maybe she can text George Will and invite him over for a bottle of Sour Grape Schnapps.
Such a total frikkin’ turd.
This is total crap. That she was a conservative writer and changed during Trump’s first term.
She has been a howling leftist kook for decades, and was cited as being some kind of “republican”.
She’s such a looney now the the Washington Post is too conservative for her.
Never read an article of hers that wasn’t full on communist.
She’s a pos.
“ the refusal to endorse Donald Trump”. Trump has truly scrambled her brain.
To be fair, she was conservative in the 1990s and used to come on to bash Clinton on Hardball.
To be fair, she was conservative in the 1990s and used to come on to bash Clinton on Hardball.
She could add Bil Kristol for a threesome.
BS, just because she bashed Bill Clinton doesn't make her a conservative, besides, I'll bet she's always loved Hillary.
I had some hopes that it would be a criticism of the American media supporting Biden and his puppeteers. Nope, more Orangemanbad.
Jenny jenny, who can you turn to?
Not a very good painting. It’s way too flattering.
She’s had TDS for YEARS ...
I dont know how she survives in journalism to be honest do they still call her a conservative ? Is she still GOP ?
It goes to show you these people never disappear and are waiting in the wings. Be vigilant
So what is it with so many American Jews ? They can be the most recalcitrant, committed, deranged Trump haters and Leftists that exist in the U.S.
Some of my own dear ( former) friends . Even after all of what has been exposed about Biden and Harris; unchanged Trump derangement syndrome . Are any Jews in Israel as bad?Maybe the daily realities Israelis face wises them up? Americans are just too soft ,entitled and subverted by the commie education system?
Of course she survives in journalism. She's the house conservative.
Pundits like her enable liberal publications to point to her and say, "See, we're balanced. We publish conservatives as well as liberals."
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