Marc Thiessen declared on social media that he’s no longer an ‘outlier’ at the Washington Post, as the paper’s opinion section is wholly ‘conservative’ now
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen said the quiet part out loud this week when he bragged that the newspaper’s opinion section was now thoroughly “conservative” after Donald Trump praised his most recent op-ed.
Thiessen’s declaration comes on the heels of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos imposing an ideological realignment of the Post’s opinion page, which has resulted in an exodus of talent and the hiring of an editor who shares his vision of dedicating the section to the “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
The admission from Thiessen, a Fox News contributor who served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, came after prominent MAGA personalities expressed shock over his Washington Post piece endorsing Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. (The president, despite his persistent lobbying for the award, lost out to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.)
Walls are closing in on informed punditry and quality journalist outlets. Right is winning the disinfo war and carrying out what Putin did in Russia, or Orban in Hungary.
And yet even knowing this in realtime we’re unable to come up with EFFECTIVE opposition.
It’s tough when one side has literal billions of dollars to spend and the other side is struggling to pay rent
Step 1: stop shitting on every imperfect practical idea
More than that, Putin has given LOTS of funding to the far-right (and, to a lesser extent right now, the far-left).
Democracy died in darkness I suppose.
If they really wanted to push personal liberties and free markets, they’d have an excess of opinions against everything Trump does and stands for, but instead they suggest a man who goes to war against his own country is worthy of a prize given for peace.
Hmm, am I petty enough to find my discussion from many months ago, where somebody tried to argue with me that the Washington post is neutral and I’m just seeing fascists everywhere in order to send them a “told ya so!”? … At the moment no, but let’s see how the day goes.
now??? lmao please
Saying the quiet part out loud huh.