Posted on 10/25/2024 2:36:02 PM PDT by libh8er
The Washington Post said Friday that it will not endorse a candidate in the presidential election this year, breaking decades of tradition, and sparking immediate criticism of the decision.
The newspaper also published an article by two staff reporters saying that editorial page staffers had drafted an endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over GOP nominee Donald Trump in the election.
“The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,” the article said, citing two sources briefed on the events.
Trump, while president, had been critical of Bezos and the Post. The newspaper in 2016 and again in 2020 endorsed Trump’s election opponents, Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, in editorials that condemned the Republican in blunt terms.
In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it had lost a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft because Trump had used “improper pressure ... to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.
The Post since 1976 had regularly endorsed candidates for president, with the exception of the 1988 race. All those endorsements had been for Democrats.
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That’s one thing we can thank him for.
But not publishing it will demoralize the Democrats.
The China tariffs will kill Bezos.
He’s one of us.
Correct.
Not only that but she stole my Jesus fish.
Bezos could have transformed the Washington Post years ago into a balanced news organization, but he chose not to. I live in the Washington area, and it’s surprising how many people uncritically accept everything they read in the Post without seeing the bias.
He saw the guy in LA do it so he copied him. Just like he copies Musk with his shitty not yet ready for space program.
Bezos is a lib, but he apparently has not drunk the kool aid.
He'll have to fire all the reporters. Open a new office in a red state.
DC is swamp. So all the reporters there will protect the swamp no matter what.
“. . . it’s surprising how many people uncritically accept everything they read in the Post without seeing the bias.”
Uhm . . . many democrats in your area? That might just be your sign.
As the Left used to say to us: “If you don’t like our media, buy your own.”
Well, we did that with Twitter, and kind of did that (apparently) with the LA Times and Washington Post.
So my response to the Left: “We did, quit bitching.”
Well it doesn’t mean he’s Trump’s pal.
In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it had lost a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft because Trump had used "improper pressure ... to harm his perceived political enemy" Bezos.
IOW, Bezos' Amazon's lawyers were lying. But now he realizes Harris is going to lose, and probably lose badly. Since he's clearly a Demwit, he may even believe thee recent agitprop about how people like him are going to be rounded up.
Likely he doesn’t want any of that “Trump is Hitler” taint.
True.
I saw this movie.
When she goes to leave he pulls the lever to the shark pen.
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