'Sell the paper!' Michael Steele flattens WaPo owner Bezos for spiking Harris endorsement
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele went off on a brutal attack on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos for his part in spiking a Washington Post endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, telling the owner of paper to sell it if he's afraid of Donald Trump.
Reacting to the furor of the venerable paper which broke the Watergate break-in story that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, Steele, from his perch on MSNBC's "The Weekend" bluntly stated Bezos has no idea what he is doing.
Noting the paper's "Democracy dies in darkness" now-diminished slogan, Steele ranted, "You just turned out the lights, Jeff Bezos, you just turned out the lights on the Washington Post because you were so afraid, my god, 'Donald Trump will come after my business.'"
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"Here's the deal," he continued. "If you can't handle it, sell the paper! Because why did you own it if you are going to do this with that? Same with the L.A. Times. If you can't take that heat, get out of that business because it is not a business for you."
"You cannot bring that mindset, you don't have a journalistic mindset.,you don't understand what the First Amendment means to the men and women who actually do that job every day," he stated before exclaiming, "There is a reason your newsroom right now is pissed off at your dumb behind because you buckled. You put it on your masthead and then you took it down because you are afraid of Donald Trump ."
"I don't get what the hell everybody is so afraid of this guy for," he told his co-hosts. "There are more of us willing to stand in the light so it doesn't go dark and you are turning out the lights on your own newspaper"
"Ho ahead. See what happens. He is still going to come after you if he wins, right?" he concluded.
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