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A Mixed Message From The Washington Post
By Robert Knight
A mixed message from The Washington Post
By Robert Knight
The newspaper across town, which presumes to be a paper of record for the whole country, has a little problem: It is schizophrenic and sex-obsessed.
It needs a couch visit with Sigmund Freud, or at least Dr. Phil.
When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, he unaccountably let the inmates run the asylum, with progressive propaganda permeating every section, including sports.
Last year, Mr. Bezos, a capitalist who made his billions in America’s free market system, had had enough. He reined in the editorial section, which had lurched so far left that it sounded like the Soviet Union’s Pravda, or today’s Democratic Socialists of America.
On Feb. 26, 2025, the Post newsroom got a public memo from Mr. Bezos informing them that the opinion section would henceforth defend “personal liberties and free markets.”
And so it has, at least in most editorials. The paper still has leftist columnists. But it has added conservative opinion content that would not be out of place in The Washington Times or The Wall Street Journal.
Oh, the horror. Editorial page editor David Shipley resigned immediately, followed by several other opinion staff members.
It also cost the Post 75,000 online subscribers, on top of the exodus of 200,000 to 300,000 subscribers who canceled when the Post declined to endorse Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
Mr. Bezos did not seem to mind and continued bankrolling the paper, which has been losing as much as $100 million a year.
The problem is that the housecleaning stopped too soon. The paper’s feature and news sections still read today like they are edited by Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, and RuPaul.
Here’s a headline on a Foreign Policy magazine story the Post ran on Sept. 17: “By nearly every metric, the U.S. is losing the Iran war."
Meanwhile, not a day passes without the Post pouring gasoline on the nation’s divisions. If there is no recent George Floyd, they reach back to remind readers about how awful America has always been, because, you know, straight white people.
You would think the food section would be safe, at least. You would be wrong.
On Sept. 2, food critic Tim Carmen did a two-page hit piece on Chick-fil-A and its chicken-and-waffle sandwich.
He says the dish “became a staple on plantations, where enslaved cooks prepared what became known as a ‘Virginia breakfast.”
He then asks, “Does this dish deserve to be on the menu of a chain with a history of intolerance?”
Say what? Oh, right. Chick-fil-A’s president defended marriage as the union of a man and a woman back in 2019, and the chain supports Christian charities.
Even the Post’s comics pages are woke.
The Sunday section features Doonesbury out front. That strip hasn’t been funny for years, and is now animated almost entirely by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Six Chix, a badly drawn strip by six rotating leftist women, last February featured a panel showing a brick, with the words, “Iconic symbols of resistance.” Wow. They’re a riot.
A couple of weeks ago, the Post’s chief arts critic, Philip Kennicott, wrote a scathing piece about the Trump administration’s efforts to get leftist propaganda out of the Smithsonian Institution.
“Never has the nation more urgently needed to focus on key issues, like climate change and its long history of racial, ethnic, and class division,” he wrote.
Yes, keep pouring on the gasoline. Upon reading Mr. Kennicott’s screed, I easily imagined him out on a curb with other grizzled, privileged hippies, yelling “No kings!”
On March 1, the Ask Sahaj column in the Style section fielded a question from a woman who wrote, “I have a deep fear my brown skin and hijab will make me unattractive to other people.”
Sahaj Kaur Kohli’s answer begins: “You need to accept that the messaging about beauty standards you’ve internalized is rooted in white supremacy and colonialism.”
The Post also carries a column by Shane O’Neill, whose purpose seems to be to evangelize for sexual promiscuity.
A newly divorced woman asks him how much sex she should have. He answers: “Keep on having as much sex as you want. … You’re no longer monogamous! Hooray!! As a gay guy, I’m used to getting tested every three months.”
He recommends using condoms or taking a daily pill to ward off HIV and says, “If you’re not interested in a committed monogamous relationship, finding one or two (or 16) ‘regulars’ can significantly cut down on time spent looking for new partners.”
How practical.
In another column, he counsels a 29-year-old woman who says she is a virgin but has decided she is a lesbian. He tells her to have sex and not worry because, “Virginity is a construct. It has historically been used to control and extract monetary value from women’s bodies. …the concept has no value.”
The devil himself could not have put it better.
It sounds a lot like something out of a sermon by Texas U.S. Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico’s wacky pastor.
Moving on to films, a July 31 review by Katie Walsh via the Tribune News Service of the movie “I Want Your Sex” gives it three and a half stars –- nearly a perfect score.
Ms. Walsh lauds filmmaker Gregg Araki for his “message to Gen Z, which is to have some sex already. The kids could stand to be a little more kinky, a little more queer, to get out of their heads and into their bodies.”
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t let anybody impressionable near this newspaper until it gets over its schizophrenia.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.