Federal employees make up about 20% of the workforce in the Washington commuter belt. The federal government’s the most consequential employee in Washington, but there’s a lot else going on there.

My guess about The Post is that what Bezos did was to remove the controlling supervision the Graham clan had exercised over the paper and just let its employees do what they wanted to do as long as they followed certain guidelines in re his business interests.

A while back, Fred Barnes wrote an article reflecting on his experience in the news business, which included 20 years as a newspaper reporter and (at that point) > 15 years as an opinion-monger, first at a dissident liberal publication (Martin Peretz’ The New Republic) and then at a standard-issue starboard publication (Rupert Murdoch’s The Weekly Standard). He offered that by 1995 newspapers were going out of their way to avoid hiring anyone who was discernibly right-of-center in their politics. Someone like Laurie Garrett or the late Sarah Pettit could land handsome positions at Newsday and Newsweek off their time at odd sectarian outfits like Pacifica News Service and Out magazine, but the youths who had had internships at The Weekly Standard were discovering that no one was hiring. An obnoxious, sectarian, dishonest paper is the paper today’s reporters and editors want to produce when they get their way. Dissident voices are understood to be static.

We have two Republicans on our friend list who make use of Facebook for political posts. One offers an occasional light-hearted crack and one posts very infrequently. About 90% of the political posts which come over the transom to us are from Democrats. You look at what they say, you realize that street-level Democrats think in stupid memes and are addled by political-historical fictions.

The notion that Northam or Herring should resign for giving Michael Jackson impressions or appearing at costume parties 30-odd years ago is inane. The the dilemma for us normies is that we know perfectly well that if the shoe were on the other foot, they’d be insisting on it.

Remember it is the house organ for government employees. Bezos learned from Microsoft’s experience. In the early 80s they did not have a lobby shop in DC. The Democrat Congress went after them and they learned that graft makes Washington go round.

The Post is nothing but naked propaganda at this point. As jaded as I am, my once in a while perusals of that paper always manage to surprise me which just how awful it’s gotten.

“Democracy dies in darkness” isn’t a warning, it’s a goal.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/state-sen-tommy-norment-another-virginia-lawmaker-caught-up-in-blackface-scandal/

“The Republican majority leader of Virginia’s state Senate was the managing editor of a college yearbook featuring photos of people in blackface alongside other racist snapshots and slurs, according to a new report.”

That’s really clever.

I don’t think any of the three Democrats will resign, because they can’t afford to cede power to a Republican. They’ll tough it out, and won’t the campaign ads next time be grand!

Northam says he’s very sorry; also says, “That wasn’t me!”
Fairfax finds the facts unfair, and also says—“Eff that B!”
Bobby Scott knew quite a lot, but chose to “wait and see,”
Unlike the erring Herring, who confessed pre-emptively.
—
By Joe Long| February 7th, 2019