The Washington Post Can’t Go Bankrupt Soon Enough
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Avuncular”…I don’t even think the Ayatollah comes off as an uncle-figure. More like the schoolmaster who will beat you to death if you sniffed the wrong way.
Go away, Post. You used to be a great paper. Now you’re just a newsletter for the leftist company town.
AFAICT, the difficulty Bezos faces if he wants to build a satisfactory paper is (1) papers lack the revenue stream to finance the manpower which can do shoe-leather reporting and (2) people you might have hired as reporters 40 years ago have other things to do with their lives. You have to entice such people to work for a paper with an uncertain future and deal with the loosely-wired commissars in the newsroom you haven’t yet fired. (See Rod Dreher’s comments on newsroom staff ca. 2005, before the commissars were so prevalent. Dreher working at the Dallas Morning News discovered that the reporters and editors there had zero interest in covering stories which might interest their actual readers).
My best friend went to school to be a reporter and within 10 years of working in the business, he got out of it because he was the only one interested in doing the mucking that is required to do a proper newspaper. J-school is one of the main ruiners of the media business – everyone wants to be Woodward and Bernstein, but the local HS football games and the silver alert search need to be covered too.
Donald, it’s not just the Washington Post. It’s AP News, NY Times, and all the rest who are siding with the regime that took 66 Americans hostage in 1979.
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/israel-iran-us-explosion-tehran-photos-reaction-6a5013fb2796675af61afc1c5d89effc
They hate Trump so much that they would rather support fanatical Musloid terrorist mullahs who would murder them at a moment’s notice that to acknowledge however begrudgingly that Trump and Netanyahu have done the world a service by sending a depraved and sadistic psychopath tiumpnst Tro Jesus Christ for final judgment.
BTW, the USCCB and most Novus Ordo clerics will react in the same way, and so will Francis the better dressed, er, I mean Leo. I see on Twitter / X that even the august Dr. Feser is in full Trump Derangement Syndrome. I am sure Mark the Gelantinous Loud Mouth Shea is beside himself with demented anger and frustration against Trump.
I will say again: during the Iranian hostage crisis, we on my submarine had our missiles ready. I well remember looking fondly at the fusion tipped subroc missiles in the torpedo room. Sadly, the word never came to incinerate the mad mullahs, and we were absolutely ashamed of Jimmy Worthless Carter, what a pusillanimous weakling in character, Rickover’s greatest (and perhaps only) mistake (well, there’s the sodium cooled reactor on the old Seawolf – that was a mistake too). So here we are with Trump doing what needs to be done.
In a waiting room yesterday I was pleased to see that CNN had pretty fair analysis. Concerns about the future, yes, but candor about the regime.
One interesting thing they noted was that Israel and the US have never conducted coordinated military action until recently. The implication was that the ties could cause the US problems in the area. My guess is, with Iran bombing multiple neighbors yesterday, the international community is all pretty much in agreement that the regime has got to go.
If you sent every “journalist” in all forms of media for retraining as plumbers (they seem to like dishing feces and I don’t want them to learn how to code), we’d be better off.
Oh, yeah, I guess I didn’t say it, but nobody ever watches CNN outside waiting rooms or airports.
At least they didn’t go all “Austere Religious Scholar” again!
They hate Trump so much that they would rather support fanatical Musloid terrorist mullahs who would murder them at a moment’s notice
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Doubt it has much to do with Trump per se. This particular bourgeois type (common in the educational apparat at all levels, common among ‘activists’, common among people in word merchant occupations generally) have a self-aggrandizing disposition toward ordinary people and their ancestors and live to rebuke, scold, and strike poses. See Thos. Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed. One curio which has developed over the last 35 years is that this segment developed a seedy auxilliary among soi-disant conservatives.
@ Art Deco, you make a valid point. These elitists have hated and despised normal people for a very long time. Trump may not be normal, but he is the latest iteration of whom they hate and despise.
The only thing worth reading in the Post was Doctor Gridlock. The rest of it has been Democrat Party drivel from the start.