Jeff Bezos may want to cut short his honeymoon and head down to the Washington Post office to try to get things under control. The Post, never a source of calm, rational commentary, has gone off the deep end.
Thus, this hyperbolic promotion of a book excerpt on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign:
2024 was “the most consequential presidential campaign in U.S. history”? 1860, to begin with, has a far better claim, as do a number of other elections. And, in any event, isn’t five months into Trump’s term a little premature to be telling us how consequential the election was?
But it is in the comments where the Post and its readers go completely off the rails:
What readers are saying
The comments overwhelmingly suggest skepticism about the authenticity of the assassination attempt on Trump, with many believing it was staged to boost his political standing. Several commenters highlight the improbability of Trump’s ear healing without a scar and question the… Show more
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That is all I can get without subscribing to the Post, which I wouldn’t dream of doing. But seriously: the Post’s readers (or commenters, anyway) “overwhelmingly” think the assassination attempt was faked? That is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard. But liberals are so far out of touch with reality these days that nothing surprises us.
