by Jeff Childers
Betrayed! Stabbed in the back! Benedict Arnold-ed! Libs were triggered again yesterday, very badly this time. Sensitive seismic devices on the Moon clearly detected the howls of outrage from far-left social media back on Earth. The New York Times reported the wild brouhaha in a simply headlined story: “Washington Post Says It Won’t Endorse a Presidential Candidate.” The sub-headline primly explained, “The chief executive said the paper was ‘returning to our roots’ of not making endorsements for the office.”
The news came fast on the already unsettling heels of the woke LA Times’s intentional failure to endorse Kamala Harris. West Coast elites had been automatically counting on that endorsement, taking it for granted, not even thinking about it, just expecting an LA Times endorsement to come around again like Christmas, Guy Fawkes Day, or the Haitian Solstice.
But yesterday, the East Coast collapsed into disgrace after the woke Washington Post also announced that it too would be not endorsing Kamala Harris. It was the political equivalent of a comet crashing right into the steel and concrete containment dome over the still-glowing remains of the Soviet nuclear power facility in Chernobyl. Double disaster.
The Washington Post is the biggest leftist paper in the country, not least because it demolished Republican President Richard Nixon and his reputation in history down to the studs. To East Coast elites, the WaPo is the wellspring from which the liberal permission matrix flows, just as the LA Times is for West Coast elites.
This development was colossally catastrophic, undermining the foundations of Democrat world view. The two papers were the safest sources Democrats rely on to tell them what it’s okay to think, and what they can safely say. And those foundations of safety just slid sideways.
As with anyone whose core identity is unexpectedly challeged, the WaPo’s refusal to endorse Democrats’ selected candidate produced incandescent fury and incoherent rage. For example, the increasingly deranged, far-left podcaster Keith Olbermann, who yesterday non-ironically demanded Biden immediately arrest Elon Musk and nationalize Musk’s companies, also rage-quit the Washington Post to protest the paper’s non-endorsement:
The unhinged fever swamps of far-left ‘media’ have suddenly, but far too late, discovered that corporate media has its own agenda. For example, yesterday’s headline from looney-left The Bulwark:
They just can’t understand it. The current theory on far-left Twitter alternative BlueSky is that the two billionaires who each own the LA Times and the WaPo expect Trump to win, and they fear his retribution. So they are currying favor by refusing to endorse Kamala.
The New York Times explicitly described this Trump-deranged trend as having zero evidence. But they still explained the theory:
In other words, they think Bezos is scared that he’ll get the Elon Musk treatment. Even though fear of deep state retribution was the first explanation they ran to, Democrats still can’t see that the real problem is a weaponized federal government. (Democrats cannot imagine a world where the papers’ owners have good faith, bona fide reasons for not endorsing Harris.)
Jeff Bezos and the LA Times owner, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, should be more worried about being punished by Democrats for their sudden betrayal. It’s more curious that they aren’t.
Globalist Jeff – did he make a deal? No Kamala endorsement in exchange for clemency… perhaps was shown evidence that some closet skeletons are known?