Are we glad we canceled our subscription to The Washington Post? You bet a case of tuna we are. The latest outrage is that Jeff "I Gave $1 Million To Benedict Donald's Inauguration" Bezos ordered this draft cartoon by Ann Telnaes killed. He didn't like being portrayed as kneeling to Trump with a money bag. Truth hurts, doesn't it?
(Mickey Mouse, of course, is prostrating himself because Disney owns ABC, which chose to settle a bogus Benedict Donald defamation suit instead of defending its anchor, George Stephanopoulos.)
Anyway, Telnaes resigned over the decision, and once again Bezos had to endure a barrage of bad headlines instead of just sucking it up like a grownup and letting the cartoon run. Rumor has it that morale is rock-bottom at the Post, and why wouldn't it be? On top of the Telnaes resignation, other media have been luring away star reporters like Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker. The canceled subscriptions reached 300,000 just by Election Day alone. And layoffs are just around the corner.
What odd decisions these billionaires make. We have no plans to restart our subscription, unless the scuttlebutt we've heard about Kara Swisher putting together an investor group to take the paper off Bezos's oligarchic hands is true. That would make us cats PURR.
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