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Bezos Besmirched

Bezos Besmirched

His sole accomplishment. His disgrace. One upside.

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Feb 26, 2025
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Sanchez and Bezos in Camelot looking non-mammalian.

Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest man, announced today he’s sterilizing the once-vital opinion page of the Washington Post into a daily propaganda eunuch.

Whatever bylines now filigree the WaPo columns—and AI writers would be the right hire here—each one now will ventriloquize Jeff and plump for his hobby horses: “personal liberties and free markets.”

Due umbrage has been taken at the interference, the more-than-interference, in the would-be free press by a subliterate mega-oligarch.

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