On the heels of The Los Angeles Times refusing to endorse Kamala Harris, which AFN reported on last week, The Washington Post followed that same pattern just one day later. In a surprise Friday editorial, the Post said it was “returning to our roots” of the 1950s by not endorsing Harris, nor Donald Trump, for president.
Those “roots” are being questioned by many, however, since the Post has endorsed a presidential nominee – and always the Democrat – going back to the 1970s, according to Fox News story. The lack of a Harris endorsement also comes after the Post openly despises Trump in its stories and called him the “worst president of modern times,” according to its 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden.
The Washington Post adopted its first-ever slogan, “Democracy Dies in the Darkness,” just one month after Trump took office in 2017.
Curtis Houck, of the Media Research Center, tells AFN he is shocked by the “childishness, petulant, infantile behavior” of editors and reporters at The Washington Post who are openly complaining about the non-endorsement of Vice President Harris.
“This meltdown at The Washington Post, and the other one that's gone on at The Los Angeles Times,” he says, “should put to bed any notion that the newsroom and the editorial board are separate. They are one in the same.”
Along with Houck, many others are describing the Post’s newsroom unhinged reaction as a “meltdown,” too.
“It brings me great joy to watch the meltdown at The Washington Post,” Mercedes Schlapp, a conservative strategist, wrote in an X post. “Many of these writers have destroyed people’s lives by targeting, lying and writing false information,” she wrote. “They are part of the Democrat party.”
In a related story for Breitbart News, writer John Nolte didn’t hold back his glee witnessing the Post’s liberal editors and reporters throw a collective fit.
“You see, there is nothing the elite media love to talk about more than themselves,” he wrote. “The Post’s refusal to endorse Kamala is tailor-made for these morally grotesque, left-wing serial liars who love to portray themselves as the hero of the story.”
Digging deeper into the non-endorsement, Nolte predicts Post owner Jeff Bezos held back an endorsement because it is likely Trump will win the election. That is a big change from 2016, Nolte writes, when the media elites were shocked by Trump’s win and didn’t understand his appeal to voters.
“This time, people like Bezos have to take him seriously,” Nolte suggests. “One way to offer an olive branch is no endorsement.”
