The civil war started by the young wokes of the New York Times succeeded not just in forcing the ousters of opinion editors James Bennet and Jim Dao but also in sending shockwaves of terror among senior editors of newsrooms across the country. Eager to be eaten last by the revolution, two reporters and at least one editor at the Washington Post evidently violated their own rules so as not to fall prey to the mob.

Last week, the Washington Post featured an inexplicably published, 3,000 word, double-bylined investigation of a Halloween party from two years ago. The central players of the party were not politicians, celebrities, or even reporters at the Washington Post, though it was held at the home of the paper’s cartoonist, Tom Toles. No, the central plot of the story featured Lexie Gruber and Lyric Prince, two people no one had ever heard of before, bullying out of the party a liberal woman wearing blackface to mock Megyn Kelly.