Amazing. Simply amazing.
I'll give you one guess who that "authoritarian threat" is.
Rubin is partnering with former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen and launching something new: a startup publication called The Contrarian.
The startup's tagline, 'Not owned by anybody,' is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin's view, have 'bent the knee' to President-elect Donald Trump.
'Our goal is to combat, with every fiber of our being, the authoritarian threat that we face,' Rubin told CNN in an interview ahead of the publication's introduction.
THE AUTHORITARIAN THREAT!
You have to marvel at how Trump broke the brains of the media's handpicked "conservative" op-ed writers. The Jennifer Rubin and David French types live in a totally different world than the rest of us.
I love how they frame their obsessive delusion:
Rather than anti-Trump, the founders describe their venture as pro-democracy.
I've never been a hardcore Trump fan, but I voted for the guy 3 times and so did the majority of the nation. He won not only the Electoral College, but the popular vote.
So if you consider yourself "pro-democracy," which would mean "pro-the-opinion-of-51%-of-the-population" ... then shouldn't you be pro-Trump??
A 14-year veteran of the Post's opinion section, Rubin said she resigned because 'the Post, along with most mainstream news outlets, has failed spectacularly at a moment that we most need a robust, aggressive free press.'
'I fear that things are going from bad to worse at The Post,' she added.
What ever will The Post do without articles like yours, Jen???
Rubin cited numerous controversies, including Bezos blocking the editorial board's planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in October and Amazon, which Bezos founded, making a $1 million donation to Trump's inaugural fund. She said a major factor in her exit was the Post's recent refusal to publish a satirical cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes showing Bezos and others on bended knee. Telnaes resigned as a result.
This might be my favorite quote of this article:
'The voices we'll be featuring are diverse across parties and generations," Eisen said in a statement, 'connected by the shared belief that we need an unshackled media in order to meet this moment, as we face an existential threat to American democracy.'
I have a feeling the "diverse across parties and generations" freedom fighters at The Contrarian will all look a little something like this:
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