Jay Weber Show transcript 10-28-25
I loved the war over newspaper endorsements this weekend.
This could not have worked out better for the Trump campaign, either really- given that normally, newspaper endorsements don’t mean diddly.
They don’t- because.
a) very few people read newspapers anymore and
b) everyone knows the legacy newspapers are left-wing, and so there’s no drama in ‘who’ they are endorsing...and as for ‘why’- well- we know why-Which brings us to
c) no one reads the endorsement even if they print it.
‘But we need to explain why we endorse Tammy Baldwin’.
No, you don’t. Your newsroom is full of leftists -and she’s a leftist. You don’t need to detail fake reasons.
So- the first thing to know is: newspaper endorsements have been useless for many decades now. No one cares about them-and they don’t move voters.
And so- to have arguments over ‘the endorsement’ blow up the newsrooms of at least two major newspapers -so that that? -turns into the story- is priceless.
First- it exposes the incredible bias in these so-called newsrooms- because nothing says ‘I’m a fake’ than a reporter or editor who gets so angry over their newspapers endorsement that they quit or threaten to leave the newsroom over it.
As someone on X put it: nothing screams you’re not a real journalist more than quitting if your publication doesn’t endorse a democrat.
Bingo.
But beyond exposing the lying hypocrites and closet left wing activists in the newsrooms-the controversy also manages to make the endorsements ‘important’...simply because the newspapers won’t give them to kamala.
Correct?
The reporters and editors who chose to pitch a fit over the la times and wash post not endorsing a presidential candidate this year-have ensured- with their hissy fit- that everyone in America knows that these are even more endorsements that Kamala Harris should have been getting- automatically- just because she’s the dem candidate- but isn’t getting.
Why?
Because she sucks so much.
Because she’s not qualified to be president of the United States-in any way.
Because four years of Kammy is just four more years of terrible leftist policy decisions out of this same cabal of fools currently destroying the country.
Everyone knows why kamala isn’t getting the expected, virtually automatic, endorsements that the democrat should be getting: because she’s not qualified or worthy of the job.
So-the teamsters and pipefitters refuse to endorse her. Lefty newspapers refuse to endorse her...etc.
Okay- so- if the la times and wash post decided not to endorse this year-and the editors and staffers downplayed it and made it a one day story- it wouldn’t be a big deal. No one really cares, anyway.
But-by pitching a fit and actually having a few people in the newsroom quit over it- well- now the entire country knows how much kamala sucks: she can’t even get a half-hearted endorsement from some of the nation’s top lefty newspapers.
If you missed this: Jeff Bezos, as the owner of the Washington post, apparently stepped in to say ‘the post won’t be endorsing this year’-
After-
After-the post’s editors already had the endorsement written. This caused the lefty minions in the newsroom to pitch a fit. It caused at least one editor to quit. Seventeen columnists published a searing rebuke of their own owner-but- interestingly- none of them quit.
Conservatives on social media were trying to goad Jennifer Rubin into quitting- because she was blasting the paper but- once again-refused to stand behind any of her fake and ever-shifting principals.
Even Woodward and Bernstein blasted the post for not endorsing.
As a fun kicker- several liberal celebrities took to social media to insist they had canceled their subscriptions.
That group included mark Hamill, Bradley Whitford, Jon Cryer, George Takei, Rob Reiner.
As someone else put it: it’s interesting that all these people insisted they were leaving twitter over a year ago when Elon Musk bought it-but they are announcing-on twitter- that they are canceling their subscriptions to the Washington Post.
True.
This came just a few days after the owner of the LA Times, who is an Asian billionaire, announced that his newspaper wasn’t endorsing Kamala this year...and simply wouldn’t endorse.
That decision-also-had the top editor resigning.
There was no such self-awareness at the Wash Post. These people-really believe-that they are doing God’s work and that -they alone-know what the truth is-and what the American people need to see and know.
And so, post editors and staffers went-ape- over Bezos’ decision. And in public.
They don’t understand that any political capital or influence that they once had-is gone.They squandered it years ago by becoming rank partisans...and left-wing foot soldiers...and willingly taking their papers that way.
These people calling themselves journalists at the NY Times, wash post, la times, etc.-have zero credibility left. And they aren’t ever going to rebuild it if the staff pitches fits any time they don’t get to tip the scales in favor of the democrats.
But I love that- no one cared who the Washington Post and la times were going to endorse in the first place.
Now the staffers have pitched a fit and highlighted to the country that even the top lefty newspapers won’t endorse kamala in good conscience...which I find fantastic.
I ran across this stat yesterday: in 2016, over 240 newspapers formally endorsed Hillary Clinton. Only 20 endorsed Trump.
This year? Only 80 of the 240 are endorsing Kamala Harris. Wow. Some of that is because a lot of those newspapers simply don’t exist, anymore, but the single biggest reason appears to be: because kamala sucks.
She is so inauthentic and pathetic that even most newspaper editors and owners don’t believe she can do this job.
Folks-the la times is endorsing the awful, bug-eyed Adam Schiff for the u-s senate in California. The owner apparently feels great about endorsing that scumbag.
But-he won’t endorse Kammy?
He doesn’t’ want that stain on his newspaper’s record?
Wow.
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audio version of the segment here > Kammy's newspaper non-endorsements this weekend.