The editorial board for leftist news publication, The Washington Post, has revealed Friday they will not be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. And as you can probably already guess, liberals all over the nation are blowing steam out of their ears about the whole thing. But guess which other big news outlet isn’t endorsing Harris? The Los Angeles Times, her own hometown paper. Let that sink in a for a minute. The L.A. Times knows Kamala Harris very well. If they don’t believe she’s suited for the task, and WaPo isn’t comfortable backing her, why in the world would anyone else want to cast a ballot in her favor?
Check out more details from Breitbart News:
The decision allegedly involved Jeff Bezos, who reportedly ordered the non-endorsement with the early vote trends appearing to favor former President Donald Trump. Bezos, the owner of the paper, has several large contracts with the U.S. government. NPR’s media correspondent David Folkenflik reported on the decision, which appears to have “shocked” the paper’s left-leaning newsroom:
The editorial page editor, David Shipley, told colleagues that the Post‘s publisher, Will Lewis, would publish a note to readers online early Friday afternoon. Shipley told colleagues the editorial board was told yesterday by management that there would not be an endorsement. He added that he “owns” this decision. The reason he cited was to create “independent space” where the newspaper does not tell people for whom to vote.Colleagues were said to be “shocked” and uniformly negative. Post corporate spokespeople have not responded to multiple messages left by NPR on the subject.
Folkenflik then created a thread on social media platform X where further reporting concerning the inner politics of a “tense meeting” which helped to shape the decision and might have involved Bezos was shared:
It is not clear whether Post owner Jeff Bezos or Publisher/CEO Will Lewis made the call Shipley said the paper wanted to give readers an “independent” space in which to decide [f]or whom to vote on their own /MORE
The decision was revealed in a tense meeting with people on the editorial staff [sic] And it arrives at a time of heightened concern over whether news outles are pulling their punches in order to appease Trump in final days of a neck and neck presidential race agst VP Harris MORE Post owner Jeff Bezos picked his new publisher/CEO Will Lewis in part because of pedigree in dealing with conservative power centers: Lewis was editor of conservative Telegraph in UK he was publisher of Murdoch’s WSJ He was a consultant to Conservative PM Boris Johnson MORE I’m told by person with direct knowledge that Shipley implies that Bezos ordered the decision and Lewis carried it out. Lewis is to publish an explanation to readers shortly, I’m told. (So far the WaPo has not answered my requests for comment.) MORE
Again, what this all comes down to is that there are a lot of folks who don’t believe Harris is going to win. And the reason for that is legion. For one, she’s not intelligent. When someone else writes up a script and she memorizes a few talking points here and there, she might come off like she has more than one brain cell that isn’t on life support. Take that away from her and she has no idea what she’s talking about.
Secondly, all she’s promised to do is, more or less, continue the same failed policies Biden put into action during his presidency, which have decimated the economy and left the middle-class and those struggling in poverty even more financially destitute than they were before. Why would we want more suffering? That doesn’t make any sense.
A lot of companies are doing what they can to simply save face for when the inevitable happens. And that’s what we’re seeing now.
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