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The Washington Post’s Disgrace
Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 17, 2024 | Washington Free Beacon Editors

Posted on 05/18/2024 3:48:19 PM PDT by george76

Some wealthy Jews would like to influence American public opinion. They also appeal to their elected representatives.

That is the "news" in a Washington Post "exclusive" that ran Thursday, and the paper makes clear that there is something very untoward about it. The piece, by reporters Hannah Natanson and Emmanuel Felton, is based on an inside look into an online chat that included New York City mayor Eric Adams and several wealthy New York businessmen.

In that chat, several people pressed Adams to send the New York Police Department to clear out Columbia University’s dangerous, disgraceful, and violent pro-Hamas encampment, something that did not happen until student reprobates further escalated the situation and broke into and occupied a campus building several days later.

The Post surfaces no evidence—zero—to indicate there is any connection between the demands made in the chat and the cops’ appearance at Columbia, since the decision, of course, was left to Columbia University’s weak-kneed president Minouche Shafik.

A spokeswoman for the newspaper declined to comment, and the paper did not publish the piece in its print version on Friday.

Maybe this is why. "The messages offer a window into how some prominent individuals have wielded their money and power in an effort to shape American views of the Gaza war," the reporters write ominously. Get it? The piece is a modern-day echo of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in which Woodward and Bernstein—er, Natanson and Felton—mimic the uncovering of a secret plot.

We hope you’re sitting down, because the Post reveals that several of the billionaires also "worked with the Israeli government" to screen film footage of the Oct. 7 massacre compiled by the IDF and one of them, the hedge funder Bill Ackman, even facilitated its screening at Harvard.

Indeed, the wealthy men mentioned in their piece haven’t exactly been shy about their views. Ackman is waging holy war on Harvard. Real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht cut off his donations to his alma mater, Brown University. And billionaire Dan Loeb has said he’s reconsidering hiring from Ivy League schools.

We understand the Post prefers activism undertaken by the masked and violent, but bravo to these patriots for doing their civic duty: leaning on their lawmakers, trying to move public opinion, and putting their money where their mouths are. Post owner Jeff Bezos might note he could save $100 million a year by cutting out the middleman and texting elected officials directly.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Rhode Island
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1 posted on 05/18/2024 3:48:19 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Which one?


2 posted on 05/18/2024 3:57:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: george76

So did Hamas rape murder and pillage on 7 Oct or didn’t they. If they did I don’t need anyone to tell me they and their supporters should be pounded into rubble for it. Or shouldn’t either for that matter. I can make up my own mind about how they and their sycophants and apologists should be treated. Including the editorial board of the Compost.


3 posted on 05/18/2024 4:03:12 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Fungi

I know. Ambiguous reference. Shows the decline of writing skills in the US.


4 posted on 05/18/2024 4:04:45 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: george76

This mayor shows very little interest in dealing with violent crime against ordinary citizens.

But when financial elites demand he cleans up an embarrassing situation at an elite institution, Adams springs into action and immediately unleashes the police.

Reporting that is a matter of public interest, and not “anti-semitism”.


5 posted on 05/18/2024 4:08:18 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: AndyJackson
They STILL butcher the Israelis when they can.
6 posted on 05/18/2024 4:24:23 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: george76

The Washington Post, and its Syphilis-infused sibling, the New York Times, have never supported the United States in time of war or other crisis...

At least in my 90-year-old memory...

Their current adoration of the obama-biden Marxist cabal is the same as their adoration of the Adolph Hitler Marxist cabal during the 1930s...


7 posted on 05/18/2024 4:26:41 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal
"Their current adoration of the obama-biden Marxist cabal is the same as their adoration of the Adolph Hitler Marxist cabal during the 1930s..."


8 posted on 05/18/2024 4:37:14 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: AndyJackson
So did Hamas rape murder and pillage on 7 Oct or didn’t they.

That's "old news."

Unlike PDJT's supposed assault on E. Jean Carroll, which though it happened nearly 40 years ago in a place she can't remember, is worthy of months of close media coverage.

9 posted on 05/18/2024 4:43:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Reverend Wright

“This mayor shows very little interest in dealing with violent crime against ordinary citizens.”

Give the guy a break, he’s really busy. Making sure the groomers have access to elementary schools & fine-tuning the weather 100 years from now.


10 posted on 05/18/2024 5:08:27 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: george76

“Some wealthy Jews would like to influence American public opinion.”

How anti-semitic of them!


11 posted on 05/19/2024 5:41:12 AM PDT by rwa265
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