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Liberals are insane. 

The Washington Post has carried so much water for the Democrats that the Hoover Dam would groan under the pressure if it were all dumped into Lake Mead at once. 

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Moreover, the only times a newspaper endorsement moves the needle a millimeter is when they go counter to type. If the Washington Post endorsed Donald Trump, people would notice. Endorsing Kamala Harris would never be noticed. It would be as exciting to learn as “water is wet.”

Yeah, we know what these guys think. They tell us all day every day. 

But when Jeff Bezos told the editors to knock it off, they’ve attacked Trump enough and should go back to doing something other than virtue signaling, the “virtuous” (should I say petulant?) readers went insane. 

200,000 is a big number. Like a really big number. 

It might even matter if the Washington Post were a business instead of a propaganda rag that lost money at an astonishing rate. 

But of course, the Post is not a newspaper and it does lose money, so I don’t know that Bezos cares that much. I shouldn’t say that; he probably does, but the fact probably doesn’t keep him up at night. 

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Bezos has been blessed by the fact that several editors have left in protest, although for some reason (nobody else would pay her?) Jennifer Rubin has stayed on. Rubin famously complained that the Los Angeles Times editorial board didn’t all resign in protest after that paper declined to endorse in the presidential race. 

Rubin did sign a strongly worded letter, though. 

There is something glorious about seeing the meltdown of preening public figures and something equally glorious about the people who run these institutions finally deciding that they don’t want to be held hostage by their puerile employees. 

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I have to suspect that in the WaPo’s case, Elon Musk’s leadership helped pave the way for other tech CEOs to stand up to the woke mob. They have tried to cancel Musk, and so far it hasn’t worked. Musk is showing that if you are courageous (and a billionaire) you can push back against the idiots. 

Of course, the cancelations will hurt, though I suspect that many of the petulant readers will return. And, if Bezos follows through on his implicit promise to inject balance into the newsroom, the paper may actually gain more practical readers. 

We’ll see.