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Jennifer Rubin’s resignation from the Washington Post is surely imminent
The Spectator World ^ | 25 October 2024 | Cockburn

Posted on 10/25/2024 2:58:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan

She would be a Potomac Joan of Arc

The non-endorsement is the new endorsement! Hot on the heels of the Los Angeles Times’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the presidential race, a controversial call made by the paper’s owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong that has been met with multiple staff resignations, the Washington Post is following suit.

A statement published Friday reads: “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”

Public statements from leading Post personalities have been aghast. Columnist Karen Attiah tweeted, “Jesus Christ.” Then, an hour later, “…” Then an hour later still, “What an absolute stab in the back. What an insult to those of us who have literally put our careers and lives on the line, to call out threats to human rights and democracy.”

Of most interest to Cockburn, however, were the remarks of fellow columnist and MSNBC mainstay Jennifer Rubin to the LA Times resignations earlier in the week. In response to Sewell Chan’s resignation from the Times, she wrote, “Bravo. All respect.” Followed by, “and where are the rest of them?”

The implication is clear: now that her paper, too, is refusing to endorse the sainted Kamala Harris, Rubin must be set to join the charge of resignations in disgust, along with Robert Kagan, as a sort-of Potomac Joan of Arc. The prospect brings a tear to Cockburn’s eye. Such bravery.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cino; demagogue; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; jenniferrubin; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Yikes!


1 posted on 10/25/2024 2:58:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
What an insult to those of us who have literally put our careers and lives on the line, to call out threats to human rights and democracy.”

Someone has a very overinflated opinion of themselves.

2 posted on 10/25/2024 2:59:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Happy trails to you, until we hopefully (do not) meet again.


3 posted on 10/25/2024 3:00:46 PM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: Rummyfan

Hugh Hewitt’s favorite “conservative.”


4 posted on 10/25/2024 3:02:35 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Rummyfan

Dear karen. Here ya go about backstabbers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmXRQ3vfzcA


5 posted on 10/25/2024 3:04:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Rummyfan
"met with multiple staff resignations"

What a great way to clean house. Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

6 posted on 10/25/2024 3:05:07 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Rummyfan
"met with multiple staff resignations"

What a great way to clean house. Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

7 posted on 10/25/2024 3:05:49 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Retain Mike

All of these leftist clowns can be replaced by AI.

Leftist propaganda has no need for humans.

Brilliant move by the owners....

The lefties can walk out the door heads held high and bragging about their virtue...

While the owner points and laughs.


8 posted on 10/25/2024 3:07:54 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Rummyfan

Who knew “columnists” put their lives on the line like logging workers, steel workers, & soldiers.


9 posted on 10/25/2024 3:08:08 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: Rummyfan

.Everything she’s ever produced is DRIVIL

Lie upon lie please don’t take me off the guest list SMEGMA


10 posted on 10/25/2024 3:09:01 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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She doesn't look right.

In all charity, could she have had a stroke or TIA?

11 posted on 10/25/2024 3:09:05 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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RE: The O’Jays Backstabbers.
I think I’ve linked it three times. Now thanks to you I won’t need to. Mine were about people who betrayed Trump——so I could have cited a dozen a year.

Great song.


12 posted on 10/25/2024 3:14:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Rummyfan

“I’ve seen better heads on a boil!”
- Pee Wee Herman
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure


13 posted on 10/25/2024 3:15:15 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Rummyfan
Jennifer Rubin’s resignation from the Washington Post is surely imminent

Even the asylum doesn't want to house the inmates anymore.

14 posted on 10/25/2024 3:16:13 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Fungi

I havent heard Hugh Hewitt in years.

Does he still have her on his show?


15 posted on 10/25/2024 3:16:33 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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She looks like she’s been dead a week.

CC


16 posted on 10/25/2024 3:16:39 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Rummyfan

Resign Rubin. Go put on your own. Lol


17 posted on 10/25/2024 3:17:18 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate )
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To: Rummyfan

Best she think long and hard about giving up her overpaid cushy job. Do these ivory tower “journalists” know that print newspapers are dying out?


18 posted on 10/25/2024 3:19:20 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: shotgun

Market economics is not your typical lefty’s strong suit.

They think the government should order you to read their propaganda—or failing that they should be paid for it by the government whether you read it or not.

In addition schools should put their opinions on tests as the only possible correct answer—democracy, ya know.

Lol.


19 posted on 10/25/2024 3:22:14 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ifinnegan

I quit listening too.


20 posted on 10/25/2024 3:22:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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