Good day all. With the election just around the corner, a number of individuals, groups and, of course, the Democrat Propaganda Corps, aka the main Stream Media, have been announcing who they want to be the next President of the United States.
What has come as a major surprise to many, is how many groups that regularly endorse the Democrat nominee are either endorsing President Trump, or just not endorsing anyone. The Teamsters recently did this. Now we’re seeing several major newspapers also not endorsing anyone for president. This has driven the propagandists staffers out of their minds. Here are some of the details from from Fox News:
Los Angeles Times editorials editor Mariel Garza resigned from the paper Wednesday over what she alleges was the owner’s decision to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) on Wednesday. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”
The general response from people with functioning brains to her resignation can be summed up as…
This all came about when the L.A. Times management basically decided to not throw good money after bad and chose not to issue any endorsements this cycle for President. This is, of course, their choice.
Semafor reported Tuesday that the L.A. Times would not be endorsing any presidential candidate this year despite doing so since backing former President Obama in 2008. The article said the decision came from the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who took over in 2018.
I don’t know anything about Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and did a quick search. As expected, Wikipedia popped up and it has a rather lengthy entry. (How accurate it is, is anyone’s guess) Apparently, this isn’t the first time since he took over the paper that he has decided not to endorse a candidate.
Garza called the idea of not endorsing a candidate “perplexing” and potentially “suspicious” for readers.
“I didn’t think we were going to change our readers’ minds—our readers, for the most part, are Harris supporters,” she said. “We’re a very liberal paper. I didn’t think we were going to change the outcome of the election in California.”
I think I see the problem here. When Garza referred to the Times as a very liberal paper, that’s telling people that they will skew the news to a political viewpoint. (This also happens with conservative papers, but they try to be honest about it and keep it on just the editorial page)
She added, “But two things concern me: This is a point in time where you speak your conscience no matter what. And an endorsement was the logical next step after a series of editorials we’ve been writing about how dangerous Trump is to democracy, about his unfitness to be president, about his threats to jail his enemies. We have made the case in editorial after editorial that he shouldn’t be reelected.”
According to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Wikipedia page, he did the same thing in 2020 and decided not to endorse anyone. The Communists working at the L.A. Times had planned on endorsing the Fake Indian, Elizabeth “Fauxhontas” Warren. They also had another story killed by Dr. Soon-Shiong that was a slam against President Trump. They lost a couple of thousand subscribers and several members of the editorial board quit.
Apparently, the Los Angeles Times may have started a trend. The Washington ComPost has also decided not to endorse Harris or President Trump and the staffers are also throwing tantrums. Here are those details from Fox News:
Washington Post staffers are revolting after the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper announced it wouldn’t endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
The ComPost’s staffers have always been revolting. I mean they are disgusting..Oh, that wasn’t what you meant? Never mind.
On Friday, Post publisher and CEO William Lewis announced the paper would not be making a presidential endorsement this year, nor in any future presidential election. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis declared.
Ok, I don’t see a problem with this. Actually, I think it’s a good idea. Considering just how biased the Main Stream Media is in general and the Washington ComPost in particular, this could be a first, very small step in regaining their credibility. However, the propagandists pretending to be reporters and journalists have a problem with being impartial.
Shortly after, the Washington Post Guild released a scathing statement condemning the decision.
“We are deeply concerned that The Washington Post – an American news institution in the nation’s capital – would make the decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, especially a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election. The role of an Editorial Board is to do just this: to share opinions on the news impacting our society and culture and endorse candidates to help guide readers,” the Guild said.
“The message from our chief executive, Will Lewis – not from the Editorial Board itself – makes us concerned that management interfered with the work out of members in Editorial,” the Guild continued. “According to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos.
The Guild added: “We are already seeing cancelations from once loyal readers. This decision undercuts the works of our members at a time when we should be building our readers’ trust, not losing it.”
There is nothing stopping the Guild from kissing Comrade Kamala’s ass. However, you don’t tell the management or the owner, Jeff Bezos, who is the only thing keeping the ComPost afloat and your membership employed and paying dues what to do.
Post editor at large Robert Kagan resigned because of the decision, and former executive editor Martin “Marty” Baron denounced it as “cowardice.”
“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage,” Baron wrote on X.
The Fox News story added several paragraphs of employees whining, screaming, ranting and raving and generally acting like spoiled 3 year olds who had just been told they couldn’t have any ice cream.
A source close to Washington Post leadership claimed to Fox News Digital that Bezos was not involved in the decision. However, a separate source spoke with Fox News Digital and believes otherwise, citing The Post’s own reporting claiming the billionaire directly intervened.
“A non-endorsement would have made sense if it had been announced before the nominees were known. But doing it 11 days before the election suggests Bezos is worried he’d lose government contracts if Trump wins. So it signals intimidation works,” a current Post staffer told Fox News Digital. “Trump certainly caused trouble for Bezos in his presidency by killing a big cloud computing contract and messing with the Amazon postal contract. So he knows how expensive a second term might be if Trump were mad at our coverage.”
I recall the contract issues. The contract went to Microsoft instead of Amazon Web Services. I don’t recall all the details, however I have dealt with both AWS and Microsoft Azure. AWS makes it difficult, or did at the time, to transition off of that service and onto another platform. When Amazon, colluding with the then owners of Twitter, killed Parler, one of the issues for Parler was converting their code to run on other platforms. This may have since changed, however I haven’t looked at AWS in a few years. The Fox News article continues listing all the spoiled little progressive liberal children screaming that this is a mistake.
11 Post opinion columnists wrote a statement calling the decision a “terrible mistake.”
“The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential campaign is a terrible mistake. It represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love, and for which we have worked a combined 275 years. This is a moment for the institution to be making clear its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law and international alliances, and the threat that Donald Trump poses to them — the precise points The Post made in endorsing Trump’s opponents in 2016 and 2020,” they said.
“There is no contradiction between The Post’s important role as an independent newspaper and its practice of making political endorsements, both as a matter of guidance to readers and as a statement of core beliefs. That has never been more true than in the current campaign. An independent newspaper might someday choose to back away from making presidential endorsements. But this isn’t the right moment, when one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.”
The level of delusion by the ComPost’s editorial staffers as well and the rank and file Communist Propagandists pretending to be unbiased journalists is amazing. They literally don’t see how the average American views them. The average person flat out doesn’t believe anything that papers like the New York Slimes, The Washington ComPost and the Los Angeles Slimes publishes any longer.
These organizations are now getting sued, and losing, with some regularity. In some cases, the editorials and general news stories are so blatantly biased that the Management has no choice but to take action, and that usually ends with someone getting fired or “Resigning to seek new opportunities.”
Now the owners are stepping in and making changes that the crybabies don’t like. The owners are not financial bottomless vaults. They want to both serve the public good and make money. If this means reigning in the editorial boards and the reporting staff, then so be it. It’s that or these Socialist nitwits will find out that they really don’t have any usable skills.
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I have a follow up post on Bezo’s response to his staff in the queue.
“There is no contradiction between The Post’s important role as an independent newspaper and its practice of making political endorsements, both as a matter of guidance to readers and as a statement of core beliefs.”
“Independent newspaper?” Seriously?
Hard to claim independence when you print the exact same words as every other Democrat mouthpiece.