Kara Swisher Rips Jeff Bezos’s ‘Boneheaded’ New Washington Post Opinion Section Over Pro-MTG Article

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Kara Swisher pulled no punches this week in criticizing an op-ed from Zaid Jilani in the Washington Post titled, “I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect.”

Swisher’s criticism of Jilani’s article was directed more at Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and his recent moves to remake the paper and redirect its opinion pages than at dissecting Jilani’s argument, although she still took a swipe at Taylor Greene. Jilani’s article praises Taylor Greene, the MAGA diehard from Georgia, for her willingness to buck her party and speak out on behalf of Palestinian suffering.

Swisher shared the article on Threads and wrote, “The every broken antisemetic [sic] clock is right twice a day school of editorial sophistication now at @washingtonpost under the new spawn of bringing us a nursery school version of free markets and blah blah blah they just hired.”

“A quantumly less clever and low rent version of Bret Stephens is this is just the kind of boneheaded can’t we all get along nonsense that @jeffbezos will eat up,” Swisher added.

Bezos sparked fury and made headlines ahead of the 2024 presidential election by killing the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, which he later defended in an op-ed. He later donated to then-President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund and eventually attended the event.

In recent months, the Post has lost dozens of high-profile staffers, including some of its top reporters and columnists, as Bezos and his controversial new CEO, Will Lewis, reshape the paper, which had been hemorrhaging money.

In February, Bezos shared his vision for the Post’s opinion pages in a post on X, which Swisher appeared to reference. “I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” Bezos wrote, adding:

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

Bezos then explained he offered David Shipley, the Post’s editorial page editor at the time, the job of leading his new vision, but that Shipley turned him down and decided to leave the paper instead. In June, the Post announced it had hired Adam O’Neal, a correspondent from The Economist, to replace Shipley.

Swisher has publicly mused about trying to buy the Post in the past, telling the hosts of The View in March, “The money is not the issue. The issue is Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to sell it because he sees it as a tool now. Musk has X, and he has this.”