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Steve Fleischer's avatar

There you go again.

Claire got so many points wrong that I can only answer a couple of points.

"Deep state"

What do you call 51 intelligence officials who acted in unison to suppress the Hunter Biden story and arguably changed the 2020 election?

And the FBI which had the computer said nothing while their cohorts deceived us.

Instead of serving the country, they played partisan politics.

"Press"

What importance does the WaPo non-endorsement have?

WaPo spent 8 years attacking Trump through biased reporting, protective reporting of Dems, and outright lying.

A turnip knows where WaPo stands.

And Bezos is acting to protect his paper after a significant percentage of subscribers got tired of the propaganda and left.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Claire, your column, your choices.

But consider WaPo's fate when too many subscribers got tired of supporting TDS.

Deranged screeds are not what I signed up for.

Election is nearly here.

Relax.

In the words of a famous American philosopher: "que sera, sera".

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Owen Lewis's avatar

It's always rather disgusted me when media who claim to be unbiased or neutral officially endorse political candidates. Journalism at its best is about as close to objective as one can get, and picking a political horse to back just wrecks that.

Of course, I know that in America particularly there's a long tradition of large media outlets endorsing their preferred (almost always Left leaning) candidate. But for me it just underscores how partisan and biases they are.

Maybe it's because I'm a scientist and scientific publications have almost never endorsed politicians, before Trump back in 2016 anyways, when they started endorsing his opponents. I've rarely been more repulsed and ashamed as a scientist than seeing them take that step; and I'm definitely not alone.

So for me, it's a breath of fresh air seeing at least some in the media refusing to endorse a prefered candidate, even when it's obviously they have one.

It's funny how two people can look at the same data and reach wildly different conclusions. Claire, you see this refusal as the ending of Democracy in America, I see it as a very minor (though still encouraging) return to it.

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