HOT TAKES: WaPo Staffers Throw Delicious Temper Tantrums After Announcement on Presidential Endorsements

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It's been an incredibly bad week for the mainstream media and we are so here for it.

First, it was the Los Angeles Times, whose staffers erupted in meltdowns over the decision made by its owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, not to endorse a presidential nominee in the 2024 election. It was an incredibly significant moment considering Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is from California and had previously been endorsed by the Times during her Senate run.

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LA Times editorial page editor Mariel Garza was especially indignant over the decision, resigning in disgust.

"It makes us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist and racist," she wrote in her farewell letter to the paper. "How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger?"


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Fast forward a few days and, as we previously reported, the Washington Post has made a similar announcement, saying that not only will they not make a presidential endorsement this year but will no longer make them in future elections, either:

The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.

It didn't take long for those on the newsroom and the opinion sides of the paper to weigh in on the Twitter/X machine, with the consensus being that it was a dereliction of duty or something:

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The resignations have commenced as well:

There was also this:

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We're still awaiting word from their "conservative" columnist Jennifer Rubin, especially in light of how she praised Garza's resignation from the LA Times and demanded to know if other editors at the Times were following suit:

As of this writing, no comment yet on the story from Rubin, who normally is like a poodle nipping at someone's heels when it comes to the big stories of the day. She's strangely silent on this one for some reason, and I think we all know why.


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