Job Satisfaction

 

“It just makes you cringe and roll your eyes, and it’s hard to stomach, but at the same time we kind of know that you’re signing up for stuff like that,” one [NYPost] reporter said. “It’s upsetting. It’s disappointing. It sucks to, like, work for, like, a propaganda outlet.”

 

—Peter Sterne, reporter, “New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories,” Intelligencer, Oct. 18, 2020.

• Editorial Comment: Hannity doesn't, like, seem to mind. But he probably gets paid better.

 

 

 

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The Dog Vote

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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