Deranged Anti-Trump Columnist Jennifer Rubin Resigns From Washington Post, Blasts Jeff Bezos
“Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive”
Jennifer Rubin, the never-Trump columnist at the Washington Post, has announced that she is leaving the paper and blasted WaPo owner Jeff Bezos on her way out the door. The now-struggling paper has just gone through a round of layoffs.
Rubin recently took a shot at the paper while also trashing Trump and Trump supporters during one of her typically unhinged rants.
Rubin is joining a new anti-Trump outlet called the Contrarian, which I imagine will occupy the same space as anti-Trump outlets like the Dispatch and the Bulwark.
FOX News reports:
Anti-Trump columnist Jennifer Rubin quits Washington Post, blasts owner Jeff Bezos
Longtime Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the embattled paper, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
Rubin, an outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump, had recently publicly attacked the Washington Post, particularly its owner Jeff Bezos, for trying to become more politically neutral.
“I fear that things are going from bad to worse at The Post,” Rubin told CNN in an interview about her exit.
Rubin added that the Post “has failed spectacularly at a moment that we most need a robust, aggressive free press.”
Rubin joins several high-profile staffers have announced departures for other outlets, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Page and LeeAnn Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane, health and science editor Stephen Smith and veteran editor Matea Gold.
Mediaite has more on Rubin’s vitriolic exit comments:
“Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive,” wrote Rubin in an introductory column at The Contrarian to announce her resignation from the Post, lamenting how “[c]orporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.”
Rubin continued with a specific swipe at Bezos for not only blocking the paper’s editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris but for sending a tribute payment to Trump’s inauguration fund, along with condemning other media moguls who were similarly jostling to demonstrate their obeisance to the incoming second Trump administration:
The contradiction between, on the one hand, the journalistic obligation to hold the powerful accountable and, on the other, the financial interests of billionaire moguls and corporate conglomerates could not be starker. The Post’s own headline last month warned: “Trump signals plans to use all levers of power against the media; Press freedom advocates say they fear that the second Trump administration will ramp up pressure on journalists, in keeping with the president-elect’s combative rhetoric.” And yet The Post’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Trump’s opponent, forked over $1M for Trump’s inauguration through Amazon, and publicly lauded Trump’s agenda.
The news is inspiring quite a bit of mockery on Twitter/X:
At first glance I thought the story was that the troubled Jen Rubin had been institutionalized. https://t.co/TYXoyvvjVf
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) January 13, 2025
Jen Rubin is OUT at Washington Post. What will we do without her astute commentary? pic.twitter.com/WkkhvWp1NS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 13, 2025
Jennifer Rubin leaving WaPo to join some new 'contrarian' outlet …
Probably a good time to buy stock in manufacturers of boxed wine, the cheaper the better.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 13, 2025
Jennifer Rubin is launching an outlet called The Contrarian, which is not the noun I'd use to describe a pundit who went from robotically repeating the Republican line to robotically repeating the Democratic line without once pausing to think for herself. https://t.co/8oHfPcIRxJ
— Jesse Walker (@notjessewalker) January 13, 2025
Rubin is going to fade into obscurity with this move. I, for one, will not be sad to see her go away.
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The funny thing about her little temper tantrum is that by leaving the Post there will be exactly no change in anyone taking her seriously.
She was decent back when she was with Commentary (although she very well could have been cosplaying – who knows) but lately she’s acting as though she needs 60 days of involuntary confinement in the Funny Farm.
She will be miffed.
Perhaps, but she won’t be missed.
Oh, well done.
Looking at the photos above, my questions are were they separated at birth of is one of them in drag?
“The Contrarian” moniker is certainly hypocritical, and, predictable in its self-congratulatory narcissism, as there will be nothing remotely contrarian about the website’s content — only the same, dutifully water-carrying, obsequious and fawning coverage of Dhimmi-crats and the Dhimmi-crat agenda, combined with the same, perennially negative and hostile coverage of conservatives and the GOP.
“Contrarian” would be any content that actually criticizes the neo-communist, Islamofascist and totalitarian Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks and fifth columnists, and, their destructive agenda. Unlike the rest of the corporate-owned, leftist media organs.
Contrarian only to the things that 45/47 advances or believes in.
And they only have 4 more years to make themselves ‘relevant’…not exactly strategic thinkers.
Raise your hand if you have never heard of any of the “high profile staffers” at WaPo.
Off you go into obscurity, Jenny. It seems Bezo’s is finally tired of dumping millions into that pit of leftist drivel.
She will hate herself on the inside wherever she goes.
Move along, now. Nothing to see here. Just another rat drowning while trying to swim away from a sinking ship.
Maybe she could remember that were a Constituional Republic
The way her views are built around the basic premise that identifies Trump as the existential threat to democracy, and must therefore be thwarted, is so wrong-headed and off the rails, it brings her cognitive capacity into question. Maybe her mental health as well.
Lots of otherwise intelligent people had that reaction to Trump in 2016. I know some personally. It is a purely emotional reaction. There is no cognition involved.
Pretty scary looking. Yipes!
I’ll never look at a Rueben sandwich on a menu and not feel nauseous ever again…..
Her column at the Post was titled “Right Turn”. I called it Wrong Turn.
She is definitely of the variety of disingenuous, disgusting political creatures on this planet whose influence needs to be purged if we will ever heal.
I think she would benefit from heavy doses of Thorazine and inpatient psychiatric care.
If there is no improvement after ten or so years, perhaps a lobotomy may be warranted.
Was there anyone left to read her garbage at the Washington Post?
Trump broke her.
She broke herself, Trump was just the last straw.
How many comments will be needed on this thread to be more than her eventual (non-Russian-bot) subscribers to her newsletter? Or are we already there? (19 as of this comment.)
Oh no! No more comics. She was the comic section that I have loved for years.
Jennifer who? She doesn’t matter now and she’ll matter even less in the future.
It’s real sad when you have to publish the ranting of a fool.
I suspect MS Rubin won’t be alone in descending into acute TDS/Trump remorse. Lots of people seem to have projected all sorts of their own policy expectations onto the Trump Vance Admin. Many gonna be disappointed when they discover those projections to have been mistaken. Heck we already have some folks upset before they are even sworn into office.
If enough of her ilk leave the Compost, it might become a decent paper.
In 4 years when our “democracy” is just fine these same asshats will take credit for standing up to the dictator like the guy in front of the tank. Idiots.
Good riddance!!! Her case of TDS was among the worst!
In happier news, the 17 other commies on her floor were delighted at the opportunity to loot her office.
Mad as a hatter. Ugly too.
Good riddance!!!!!!