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All Hell Breaks Loose After Washington Post Declines to Endorse Kamala

The political Left fumed online Friday afternoon after The Washington Post announced that it was not going to be making any presidential endorsements this year.

“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election,” the Editorial Board said in a statement. “Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”

The paper cited its past position from more than five decades ago of not endorsing presidential nominees.

“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility,” the paper said. “That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way.”

The announcement came after The Los Angeles Times announced this week that it was also not making an endorsement. The head of the LA Times Editorial Board resigned over the decision.

A likely contributing factor in the newspaper’s decision is that its owner Jeff Bezos does not want to risk angering former President Donald Trump should Trump beat Harris.

A draft of the paper’s endorsement of Harris had already been written, but it was reportedly killed by Bezos.

Bezos is trying to catch up and compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX with his own rocket company that hopes to win lucrative government contracts.

Numerous Washington Post employees and other Democrats fumed online over the lack of an endorsement.

Far-left Washington Post editor Karen Attiah posted on X following the announcement: “Jesus christ.”

The Post’s climate change alarmist reporter, Brianna Sacks, responded to the news by writing: “We won a Pulitzer for public service for our coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection.”

Marty Baron, the paper’s former executive editor, said that the decision to not endorse Harris was “cowardice” with “democracy as its casualty.”

“@realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others),” he claimed. “Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”

“The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).

Former Obama official Ben Rhodes posted: “There is no logic that isn’t damning as to why the Washington Post and LA Times feel they can endorse in every local, state and federal election other than a presidential race.”

“It’s not that these endorsements tip the balance in an election; it’s that self-censoring because you are afraid of retribution from an authoritarian tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of management,” he wrote.

He continued, “What’s truly depressing is how much this is a mirror to the rot in the American economy and society today: you end up governed by self-interested autocrats when there is no value higher than personal profit.”

“A lot of the Russian oligarchs who owned media properties in the late 90s helped or enabled Putin’s rise to power thinking it would help them,” he concluded. “Today, Putin controls every major outlet in Russia.”

Susan Rice, a hardcore leftist who served under Obama and Biden, said: “So much for ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ This is the most hypocritical, chicken s*** move from a publication that is supposed to hold people in power to account.”

Entertainer Rob Reiner posted: “The Washington Post editorial board is a disgrace. For the newspaper that exposed the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal to not take a position and endorse a candidate in the most consequential Presidential election in 165 years is reprehensible.”

“Sorry @washingtonpost,” Actor Jon Cryer posted on X along with a screenshot of him deleting his subscription. “Now is NOT the time.”

READ 21 COMMENTS
  • JB says:

    I could care less. Endorsements never swayed my vote anyway.

  • C-Lei says:

    So, the ever-tolerant Left, who are always demanding censorship of speech they disapprove of, just got censored and are losing their minds. Oh, the irony of claiming it is an act of fascism and a threat to democracy (we are a republic) when others refuse to do what the left demands.

    The press should not be endorsing anyone! Their job is to report the facts, not opinions so that people can make up their minds based on facts.

    I’m glad the butthurt staff quit their jobs, and I hope they cannot find another. They seem to have forgotten that they were employees who were paid to do as they were told, not whatever they wanted based on political or personal beliefs.

  • Jerry Matt says:

    HAHAHAHA POST DOESN’T WANT TO LOSE SUBSCRIBERS “MONEY TAKS..BULL SHIT WALKS”

  • BWMAGA says:

    These hand wringing libs should be thankful. These publications may have decided that the Democrat candidate is that heinous that if they endorsed anyone it would have to have been Trump. At some point even the DNC’s legacy media has to draw a line or lose what little credibility they still retain.

  • Duke says:

    It doesn’t matter who you endorse. The employed are still GONA vote for Donald Trump. That goes for any CEO of any editorial or broadcasting Corp. Be stupid if you like. Go vote your CEO way.! The CEO vote doesn’t matter. Not enough to matter.

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