Philip Bump Blows Up Incredible NY Post Editorial Self-Own: ‘How Did He Work This Magic?’

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The right-leaning editorial board of the New York Post went after Washington Post columnist Philip Bump, attacking him for his suspicious expediency in obtaining journalistic sources within the impossible span of… six hours.

In an article published Monday, the NY Post referred to Bump as a “hack” for calling their own columnist Isabel Vincent an “antisemite” in his Washington Post article about how the right has invoked the name of George Soros — a prominent Jewish billionaire — as the driving force behind funding pro-Palestine protests on college campuses. The Post also called Bump a “Soros stenographer,” but their other point of contention with Bump was how quickly his article was researched, written, and published:

The basic piece went online within six hours of Vincent’s report, a rapid turnaround enabled by the fact that Bump isn’t a journalist, but a stenographer for Soros.

Six hours is… almost an entire working day, which is ample time to reach out for quotes from sources, write a thousand words, and have an editor give it a once- or twice-over, especially for a professional journalist at an established news outlet. A journalist at any point in their career could probably work that out, with time for editing, especially if they’re a windbag. But that is, apparently, an impossible feat by NY Post standards?

Bump responded to that on Twitter/X, writing:

The New York Post can’t imagine a reporter who can, within *six hours*, pull information from public databases and get comment from different organizations. How did he work this magic?!?

Magic indeed! Miraculous.