by Christine Flowers on November 4, 2024

Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it's completely ignored and you only notice it when it's removed.

This is exactly what occurred to me when I observed the manufactured controversy involving Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post editorial board. The Amazon wunderkind's decision to prevent the Oracles of DC from handing down their wisdom from Delphi on the Potomac triggered waves of outrage from the sort of people who take their marching orders from elite strangers with golden laptops.

These are the folks who treasure their appendixes and mourn the loss of something they just realized they needed to fully function in this democracy.

I have to say it was amusing to watch over 10 percent of the Post readers announce publicly that they were canceling their subscriptions. Social media was replete with the righteous indignation of (mostly) liberals who clutches at their pearls and acted as if Bezos had........

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