Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance diagnosed the problems with the Washington Post as residing in the paper’s overall “journalism” rather than just on the editorial page.
“The Washington Post might as well be a propaganda outlet of the Democratic Party,” Vance said during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast published Thursday. “If you look from the Hunter Biden laptop to any number of stories where they just toe the left-wing line almost instinctively, the problem was with the journalism at the Washington Post. It’s not with the editorials.”
JD Vance: “The Washington Post might as well be a propaganda outlet of the Democratic Party.
If you look from the Hunter Biden laptop to any number of stories where they just tow the Left-wing line almost instinctively. The problem was with the journalism at the Washington Post.… pic.twitter.com/pjHhiZz9Ed
— ALEX (@ajtourville) October 31, 2024
Vance spoke after The Washington Post’s senior leadership ignited a media meltdown last week for their refusal to formally back a presidential candidate this cycle. Vice President Kamala Harris is the first Democrat not to receive an official endorsement from the Post’s editorial board since 1992. More than a dozen opinion columnists for the paper condemned the decision of the Post with a joint statement published shortly after the announcement.
“This is a moment for the institution to be making clear its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law and international alliances, and the threat that Donald Trump poses to them — the precise points
