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The Bulwark last week announced that Catherine Rampell has joined their team. She left the Post in July after 11 years.
The Posts remaining editorial board has relocated to Cloud Cuckoo Land, or else to a billionaire prepper bunker.
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The board is back this morning with an editorial that might have originated in the right-wing echo chamber (emphasis mine):
A new era of class warfare has begun in New York, and no one is more excited than Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani. Witness the mayor-elects change of character since his Tuesday election victory.
Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech.
Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isnt about unity. It isnt about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies from landlords who take advantage of tenants to the bosses who exploit workers and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word growth didnt appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.
It goes on, but you get the point.
Ocelot II
(128,249 posts)AZJonnie
(2,250 posts)bronxiteforever
(10,952 posts)for his wedding wants to tell us its class warfare.
Squaredeal
(690 posts)When I was in the military and serving for a time in Washington in 1971, it seemed to me that just about all the civilian employees came to work with the Washington Post tucked under their arm. Now, I wonder how many of these civil servants still consider the Post as their primary news and editorial source.
PatSeg
(51,448 posts)They make some incredible offers to get people to "come back", but the comments indicate no one is buying it. Some of them are priceless.
Bezos has destroyed one of the most respected newspapers in the country, maybe the world. Maybe Elon Musk can buy The New York Times and turn that into a right-wing rag as well.
Initech
(106,872 posts)mvd
(65,788 posts)This article certainly isnt alone - the editorial board is like a right wing rag now. Its so disappointing.
Lonestarblue
(13,115 posts)Bezos knew he was hiring a corrupt right-wing propaganda nut with a less than stellar background at a Murdoch publication in London, as in illegally tapping Prince Harrys phone. Lewis is turning the Post into another Republican mouthpiece like Fox.
spanone
(140,655 posts)They are dead to me. This is beyond the pale.
William Seger
(12,043 posts)Pot, kettle.
Farmer-Rick
(12,277 posts)Well, you know what body part Jeffy boy is sucking up to.
It seems that once you takeover your wealthy grandfather's 300,000 acre ranch and establish a resell company, you lose your humanity, your common sense and your morals.
It's never enough for these psychos. But they do get their rocks off on the suffering they cause.
617Blue
(2,139 posts)Not a peep from the WaPo.
Hekate
(100,129 posts)Just hold that in mind said I.
He did, and was as gobsmacked as I was by the extreme slant and outright dishonesty of this editorial from a once-great newspaper.
Weve been cautious about embracing the young and charismatic Zohran Mamdani. Were Californians, not New Yorkers altho while I was growing up haole on Oahu, my husband was growing up immigrant Jewish in New York City, so he really does have a different perspective than mine about what goes on there.
We were impressed with Mayor-elect Mamdanis victory speech. The absolute worst that could be said about it was that he over-promised but thats just us being old, I think. Hes got the right stuff now lets see what he can do with it.
Bezos should be ashamed but apparently most billionaires pause to have their shame-instinct removed along with botoxing their wrinkles away.
sarisataka
(22,144 posts)When they cowardly capitulated and refused to make an endorsement in the Presidential election last year
IzzaNuDay
(1,189 posts)it pains me to see whats happening to this paper. Back in the Watergate days over 50 years ago, WaPo had been a beacon of accountability in the press. To now see it capitulate to the White House is tragic. I predict WaPo will be bankrupt within 5 years.
Sparkly
(24,785 posts)but left around the same time their best columnists did last year, when the paper refused to endorse Harris and to publish some opinions, including Ann Telnaes!
I wonder if they've heard the president's acceptance speech, or ANY speech? Any "nice-guy" there? The hypocrisy is amazing.