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Jeff Bezos Thinks Washington Post Readers Are Idiots

flaminghydra.com · Parker Molloy · last updated

Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, personally intervened to spike an already written and approved endorsement of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for president. In doing so, he seized control from the editors of the paper in order to impose his own political preferences on the Post’s readership. 

What’s worse is his ham-handed attempt to clean up his mess.

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