Roy Moore and Jeff Sessions: Two problems — and a solution

Published November 12, 2017 7:39pm ET



The problem with the Washington Post’s scandal story about Judge Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the Alabama Senate seat once held by now Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is that the Washington Post has become one giant editorial page, with no credibility on factual matters because it is so frenetically anti-Trump. People simply don’t believe the Post anymore. That doesn’t mean that everything the Post writes is wrong. But it’s always suspect.

The Post, now the plaything of 53-year-old Amazon gazillionaire Jeff Bezos, has a new slogan: “Democracy dies in darkness.” But that slogan can be easily reversed: “Democracy dies in blinding light.” People blinded by light can’t see the truth either. And the Post is blinded by the fierce light of its own anti-Trump mania.

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