Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz said Friday that the Washington Post’s choice not to endorse the 2024 presidential election was a “braveless gesture.”
The Post’s decision, announced Friday, followed a similar move by the Los Angeles Times, which said it would not support it on Tuesday. Kurtz said the non-support ordered by newspaper owners had led to a “backlash.” (Related: ‘In case of panic’: ‘Morning Joe’ guest says Kamala Harris has ‘good reason to worry’ about election)
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“Look, this is the profile of a complete wimp with no courage. Now, Jeff Bezos has the right to do this, but at the same time, for the rest of the year, 364 days a year, the liberal Washington Post is going to do everything.” , telling us what to think about every issue under the sun, and then all of a sudden they appear in the paper.The most important questions are like, “Oh, we can’t give our opinion now.” Kurtz, a former Washington Post employee, told Fox News host Martha McCallum.
“By the way, I think Jeff Bezos, through his rocket company and Amazon, does a lot of business with the federal government. Maybe he’s afraid that Trump will win, or maybe he’s already done. “Maybe they don’t want to worsen the situation they’re in.’It’s a messy relationship,” Kurtz said.
McCollum noted not only that the Post and Times remained neutral, but also that the Teamsters and the International Association of Firefighters decided not to endorse them early in the campaign.
“In both the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post cases, editorials were drafted in favor of Kamala Harris, and not only did the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times kill it, but people canceled their subscriptions. Three top editors resigned in protest, so yeah, we don’t want to be divisive, this is for the readers to decide, certainly editorials in most newspapers aren’t that important anymore, but interesting. The thing is, they’re backing away from this. They lectured us all on every issue and then they made the most important decision of the year,” Kurtz said.
“They’ve been primarily anti-Trump, and recently they’ve been primarily pro-Kamala Harris, but both owners still said, ‘I’m running the store, you’re not running it pro-Harris.’ “I’m saying,” he continued. (Watch the Daily Caller documentary “Cleaning Up Kamala”)
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