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Major Paper Snubs Kamala Harris With Non-Endorsement

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The Washington Post will not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president, according to the paper’s editorial board on Friday.

It will be the first time in 36 years that the paper has not endorsed a presidential candidate, a blow to Harris who is already suffering from not being endorsed by the L.A. Times, her hometown paper.

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.

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Washington Post Columnist Ripped to Shreds for Suggesting Unvaccinated Be Prosecuted: ‘This Is Demented Beyond Words’

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Longtime Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten was castigated online for suggesting that those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 should be prosecuted.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Weingarten has expressed disdain to Americans who did not receive the coronavirus vaccine.

“It is hard but not impossible to refrain from hating the stupidly unvaccinated, people who are dragging us back into pandemic,” the WaPo columnist wrote on Twitter in July. “It is impossible, however, to refrain from feeling contempt for them.” . . .

Weingarten even attacked those who are “vaccine-hesitant” in a Sept. 9 column titled: “I have a better term for the ‘vaccine-hesitant.’” In the piece, Weingarten denigrates vaccine-hesitant individuals as “ignorant people,” “idiots,” and “incredibly stupid people.”

On Thursday, Weingarten took it to another level by asking, “Is there a point at which the ‘unvaccinated’ need to be prosecuted?”

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Hilarious Retraction: Washington Post ‘Forced To Admit They Lied’ After Pretending ‘F**K Joe Biden’ Chant Was ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’

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The Washington Post, the leftist legacy media outlet whose motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” admitted to publishing fake news about the public’s discontent with floundering President Joe Biden.

During a September speech by Donald Trump Jr. in Georgia, the crowd broke into a “F*ck Joe Biden” chant at the prompting of the former president’s son. The Post, in a story titled “Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts,” falsely claimed the crowd was cheering “Let’s Go, Brandon.”

As GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz pointed out on Twitter, “Let’s Go, Brandon” did not come about until October 2. The chant originated after NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast awkwardly attempted to run cover for the president as she interviewed NASCAR Xfinity Series race winner Brandon Brown after the race. As she spoke to Brown, the crowd in the stands spontaneously broke out in a chant of “F*ck Joe Biden,” live on the air.

Stavast absurdly claimed that the crowd was chanting, “Let’s Go, Brandon.”

“Brandon, you also told me,” Stavast said before being interrupted by the crowd. “As you can hear the chants from the crowd…” she added, before claiming that the crowd was saying, “Let’s Go, Brandon.”

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‘The Story Was a Hoax’: Donald Trump Hits Out After Washington Post Admits It Published False Quotes

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The Washington Post has published an astonishing retraction two months after a bombshell story about a phone call between then-US President Donald Trump and an elections investigator in Georgia. . .

In a report about the newly published audio, The Washington Post revealed that the false quotes came from Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, who was briefed on the conversation by Watson. . .

In a statement, the former president said while he appreciated the correction, “the original story was a hoax, right from the very beginning”.

He said the correction “immediately makes the Georgia Witch Hunt a non-story”.

“I would further appreciate a strong investigation into Fulton County, Georgia, and the Stacey Abrams political machine which, I believe, would totally change the course of the presidential election in Georgia,” he said. (Read more from “‘The Story Was a Hoax’: Donald Trump Hits Out After Washington Post Admits It Published False Quotes” HERE)

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Trump Campaign Sues The Washington Post

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President Trump’s reelection campaign announced on Tuesday they have filed a lawsuit against the Washington Post for libel with regards to two stories they published alleging Russian connections with the campaign.

The suit was filed against the paper on Monday and wants “compensatory damages in the millions of dollars, according to proof; ii. Presumed damages according to proof; iii. Punitive damages according to proof; iv. Costs of suit; and v. Such other and further relief as the Court may deem proper.”

The two articles the campaign are suing over includes an article from July 2019 by Paul Waldman, “which contains the defamatory statement ‘who knows what sort of aid Russia and North Korea will give to the Trump campaign, now that he has invited them to offer their assistance?'”

“The statement in the June 20 Article is false and defamatory. There has never been any statement by anyone associated with the Campaign or the administration ‘inviting’ Russia or North Korea to assist the Campaign in 2019 or beyond. There also has never been any reporting that the Campaign has ever had any contact with North Korea relating to any United States election,” the campaign says in the lawsuit. (Read more from “Trump Campaign Sues The Washington Post” HERE)

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Never Trump Moron Sides With ISIS Over Donald Trump

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Max Boot, the fedora adorning dimwit who pens political op-eds over at Washington Post, used his platform on Monday to denigrate the sitting president of the United States and show his support for the now-dead leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In his column titled, “Al-Baghdadi’s death could have been Trump’s finest hour. He messed it up anyway,” . . .

Here’s the key portion of Boot’s column:

A president who has never heard a shot fired in anger reveled in Baghdadi’s last moments, even claiming “he died like a coward … whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.” Trump could not possibly have heard “whimpering and crying” on the overhead imagery because there was no audio, and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pointedly refused to confirm those details. The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up.

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Covington Student’s Attorneys Just Hit WaPo With a Huge Lawsuit

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Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was caught in the middle of a media scandal for smiling the wrong way at a Native American veteran in Washington, D.C., is suing the Washington Post for $250 million in damages. Sandmann’s attorneys Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Kentucky.

In the suit, the lawyers claim that the WaPo “wrongfully targeted and bullied” their client because he is white, Catholic, and, perhaps worst of all, a President Trump supporter. . .

On Jan. 18, a viral video showed what appeared to be Sandmann smirking at Native American veteran Nathan Phillips outside the Lincoln Memorial. Social media was outraged, and then so too was the media. News outlets immediately decided Sandmann was the instigator, and a racist one at that. When subsequent video footage was released, those same judges found that it was Phillips who first approached the students. Both Sandmann and Phillips were interviewed by media after the incident, claiming innocence. When Phillips was asked if he’d consider meeting the boys for a heart-to-heart conversation, he declined. (Read more from “Covington Student’s Attorneys Just Hit WaPo With a Huge Lawsuit” HERE)

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Video Surfaces of WaPo Op-Ed Contributor Chanting ‘Death to America’

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Less than two months after he was given prominent op-ed space in the Washington Post, a video has surfaced of Houthi rebel leader Mohammad Ali al-Houthi launching a shoulder-fired missile and then reciting the Houthi slogan, which calls for “Death to America.”

The Washington Post contributor chants, “Allah is the greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse the Jews. Victory to Islam.” He has also taken to his unverified but media– and think tank-cited Twitter account to repeat the infamous Houthi slogan.

Ali Shihabi, the founder of the Arabia Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based Middle East think tank, confirmed to Conservative Review that it is indeed al-Houthi in the video. Shihabi tells CR that it is “documentary evidence of the type of leader” that the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is up against, whom “many critics have ignored.”

Other videos have surfaced showing Mr. al-Houthi traveling in a vehicle with very young male soldiers (the Houthi rebels draft child soldiers) while stationed at a mounted machine gun.

al-Houthi is the head of the Houthis’ Supreme Revolutionary Committee. He is described as “one of the most powerful men” in the Iran-backed rebel group.

On November 9, the radical extremist leader was given valuable space in the Washington Post’s Global Opinions section, edited by Karen Attiah, a passionate advocate for the controversial slain Saudi activist Jamal Khashoggi, who in his last days worked as a de facto asset to the Qatari and Turkish regimes.

After Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Attiah worked to turn the Global Opinions section into a space to pursue his pro-Islamist, anti-Saudi monarchy agenda.

In his Washington Post column, the Houthi radical claimed to want “peace for Yemen.”

“We love peace — the kind of honorable peace defended by our revolution’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi. We are ready for peace, the peace of the brave. God willing, Yemenis will remain the callers of peace and lovers of peace,” al-Houthi wrote.

Of course, to al-Houthi, the road map to peace begins and ends with placing blame on all of the issues in Yemen squarely with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Nowhere in the piece did the Washington Post add a disclaimer or note the fact that the Houthis routinely commit war crimes.

The facts tell a story far removed from al-Houthi’s unchecked propaganda. The Houthis have become notorious for their ruthless behavior, which includes the systematic detention and torture of journalists and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. The UN’s World Food Program has recently alleged that the Houthis are to blame for stealing desperately needed aid meant for the people of Yemen, letting commanders like al-Houthi eat well while the group contributes to the ongoing famine and mass starvation inside the country. (For more from the author of “Video Surfaces of WaPo Op-Ed Contributor Chanting ‘Death to America'” please click HERE)

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Washington Post Hides Correction After Embarrassing Error on Time Cover Story

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The Washington Post stealth-edited an article incorrectly claiming the young child on the cover of Time Magazine was separated from her mother, only adding a “clarification” after The Daily Caller reached out for comment.

The original article — written by Eli Rosenberg — asserted that the image of the crying immigrant girl staring up at President Donald Trump was a powerful statement about family separations on the border. . .

The article itself repeated the now-debunked claim that the child was taken away from her mother, reading, “Time magazine ran a cover that used one of the images that has been most resonant in this past week, taken of a young girl crying as her mother was patted down by a Border Patrol agent before the two were separated.” [Emphasis added] . . .

As the father of the young girl, border patrol agents and eventually Time indicated, at no point were the mother and daughter ever separated. The child was briefly set down for the mother’s pat-down, but the pair were quickly reunited after the search.

The Washington Post edited Rosenberg’s article to fix the error, but they issued no editor’s note, correction, or clarification that anything had been changed despite the fact that the original article was on the website for at least 12 hours. (Read more from “Washington Post Hides Correction After Embarrassing Error on Time Cover Story” HERE)

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MEDIA CRITICISM: WaPo Gives Stunningly Accurate Account of Antifa Attacks on ‘Peaceful Protestors’

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In a surprisingly accurate report contrary to the establishment media’s recent tendency to downplay Antifa violence, The Washington Post recounted visceral details Monday of the violence the anti-fascists unleashed on “peaceful right-wing demonstrators.”

“A pepper-spray wielding Trump supporter was smacked to the ground with homemade shields,”reports Kyle Swenson for The Post. “Another was attacked by five black-clad antifas, each windmilling kicks and punches into a man desperately trying to protect himself. Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about a 100 anarchists and antifa — ‘anti-fascist’ — barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.”

Recent coverage of Antifa and left-wing inspired violence has been sparse, with little media outcry or focused reports. Antifa violence was seemingly downplayed by the establishment media in Charlottesville, and on Tuesday, Reuters and The Post referred to left-wing protestors at a Trump rally as “peace activists,” although they started fights, threw rocks and lobbed water bottles.

The original event planned for Monday, “No to Marxism in America” at MLK Jr. Park, had been canceled by organizer Amber Cummings because of security concerns. “I’m sorry for this but I want this event to happen peacefully and I do not want to risk anyone getting harmed by terrorists,” Cummings wrote according to NBC Bay Area. Despite the cancellation, many Trump supporters decided to show up anyway. (Read more from “MEDIA CRITICISM: WaPo Gives Stunningly Accurate Account of Antifa Attacks on ‘Peaceful Protestors'” HERE)

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