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Leftist WaPo Editor Quits In Protest Of Personal Liberties · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: Let's see, Washington Post staffers are an open rebellion against
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. So what's going on with Jeff Bezos. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look. So Jeff Bezos obviously the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the head of he owns Amazon, super gajillionaire, Jeff Bezos
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  Speaker 1: owns the Washington Post, and under his ownership, the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Post has been what it's always been, which is a
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  Speaker 1: biased left wing rag. Essentially, that's apparently going to change.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos says, I shared this note with the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Post team this morning. He said, I'm writing to let
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  Speaker 1: you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to be writing every day in support
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  Speaker 1: and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. Really,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is something very very interesting. This is
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  Speaker 1: this is that sea change that's happening right now. We'll
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  Speaker 1: cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those
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  Speaker 1: pillars will be left to be published by others. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why any newspaper, why any journalist would want to oppose
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  Speaker 1: personal liberties and free markets is beyond me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: particularly the personal liberties part, like free speech. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in an age where there seems to
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  Speaker 1: be almost unanimity amongst you know, the elite journalist class
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  Speaker 1: in absolutely despising free speech, their own right to dissent. Bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: is it not? So you'd think this would be something
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  Speaker 1: welcome for the uh, for the Washington Post staff, although
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  Speaker 1: I guess they are all authoritarian leftist commis, so then
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't. So, he says, Yes, we'll cover other topics too,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left
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  Speaker 1: to be published by others. Yes, communists. There was a
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  Speaker 1: time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly,
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  Speaker 1: might have seen it as a service to bring to
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  Speaker 1: the reader's doorstep every morning a broad based opinion section
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  Speaker 1: that sought to cover all views. Today the Internet does
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  Speaker 1: that job. But let's not pretend that the Washington Post
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  Speaker 1: was doing that job. Let's not pretend that at all. Right,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it wasn't. It was propaganda, leftist propaganda. I am
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  Speaker 1: of America and for America, and proud to be so.
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  Speaker 1: Our country did not get here by being typical, and
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  Speaker 1: a big part of America's success has been freedom in
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  Speaker 1: the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical, It
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  Speaker 1: minimizes coercion, and practical. It drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: This is all obvious, right, this is obvious. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's actually weird that this would need to be said,
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  Speaker 1: that actually this course would need to be taken by
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos right, that he would need to steer this
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  Speaker 1: newspaper away from authoritarian leftism. I offered David Shipley, whom
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  Speaker 1: I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter.
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  Speaker 1: I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't hell, yes,
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  Speaker 1: then it had to be no. After careful consideration, David
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  Speaker 1: decided to step away. This is a significant shift. It
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  Speaker 1: won't be easy, and it will require one hundred percent commitment.
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  Speaker 1: I respect his decision. We'll be searching for a new
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  Speaker 1: opinion editor to own this new direction. I'm confident that
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  Speaker 1: free markets and personal liberties are right for America. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's what it's built on. Why does that even
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  Speaker 1: need to be said. I also believe these viewpoints are
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  Speaker 1: underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: so this. David Shipley turned it down because I guess
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  Speaker 1: he's opposed to personal liberties, which actually isn't even surprising anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the default now for the modern journalist,
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  Speaker 1: for the modern editor. It's fairly shocking. Who was this David?
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  Speaker 1: Who was this David Shipley? Let's see, an American journalist
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  Speaker 1: and book author. He was executive editor of The New
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  Speaker 1: Republic Leftist from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: worked at The New York Times from nineteen ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: to twenty ten. The Stalin Apologists the New York Times.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, their propaganda work goes back I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred years. Literally, they're communist, They're totalitarian, communist
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  Speaker 1: dictator apologetics. Apologetics goes back one hundred, like one hundred years.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible. Let's see, executive editor of Bloomberg View no surprise,
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  Speaker 1: served as editorial editor at the Washington Post. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: this guy obviously is not going to be in favor
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  Speaker 1: of what was it again? Oh yes, personal liberties, personal
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  Speaker 1: liberties no, no, and good conscience. I can't support personal liberties.
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  Speaker 1: What universe are we living in? It's so weird that
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  Speaker 1: it's come to this. It's so strange that it's come
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  Speaker 1: to this. Absolutely not well, I personally am not in
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  Speaker 1: favor of personal liberties. No, and certainly not free markets.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a communist. I'm an authoritarian communist. I like Stalin.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like the United States to be run by somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Stalin. Absolutely no, I have to say no, sir, No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I will not be the opinion page editor. Not if
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be for, you know, supporting things like
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  Speaker 1: personal liberties. That's fascism or something. I mean, how would
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  Speaker 1: I know. I am just a journalist. What a weird
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  Speaker 1: world we live in. What a strange world that we
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  Speaker 1: live in. Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about that.
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