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What will Bezos do with ‘AIPAC all-stars’ of the Washington Post?

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Here’s liberal blogger John Cole describing the Washington Post as an AIPAC sheet and wondering what new ownership will do to its hasbara function. “You won’t find a more pro-Israel editorial page in the country.” Cole is said to be a big Obama supporter. His question is a reminder of how mainstream criticism of AIPAC has become: 

Lots of debate about how the politics of Jeff Bezos will impact the Washington Post editorial stance, but I haven’t seen anyone ask the obvious question- “Where is Bezos on Israel?” For me, the hallmark of the Washington Post editorial page, along with the constant concern trolling of Democrats and gleeful endorsement of slashing entitlements in an embrace of an orgiastic centrist buffoonery has been the fact that outside the Weekly Standard, you won’t find a more pro-Israel editorial page in the country.

Just go through the list of op-ed writers and the post-partisan yahoos like Chuck Lane and then throw in Hiatt and Rosen, and it’s like an AIPAC all-stars list.

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“you won’t find a more pro-Israel editorial page in the country.”

Really? Not in the entire country? #antiIsraelhyperbole

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From the Libertarian window, a request to Bezos to purge WAPO of the neocons:
http://lionsofliberty.com/2013/08/06/will-jeff-bezos-purge-wapo-of-the-neocons/
“Please, pretty please, send pink slips to Ms. Rubin, Mr. Hiatt, Charles Krauthammer and others of such ilk.”

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Bezos is a businessman. Very low on his list of priorities.

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I can’t find any evidence that Jeff Bezos has expressed views on Mideast politics in the past — he’s a cipher on the topic. Even his ethnicity and religion appear to be a mystery — Google provides no answers.

One might hope that he’ll fire Fred Hiatt and Hiatt’s neocon associates immediately — we’ll see.

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RE: “Here’s liberal blogger John Cole describing the Washington Post as an AIPAC sheet and wondering what new ownership will do to its hasbara function.” ~ Weiss

MY COMMENT: It can’t help but be an improvement over the management of the Washington Post by the Weymouth clan!

SEE: “Amazing Story Of Why Washington Post Is So Weirdly Neocon”, By M.J. Rosenberg, TPM Cafe, 09/20/10

[EXCERPTS] Yesterday the Washington Post published Lally Weymouth’s interview with British Vice Prime Minister Nick Clegg which wasn’t too bad until she became prosecutor, not interviewer, when the subject of Israel came up. (Weymouth is the daughter of former Post publisher Katherine Graham and mother of current publisher and CEO, Katherine Weymouth).
I wondered how Lally Weymouth, the Post heir, became such a right-wing Zionist. . .
. . . this is an amazing story – http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/916/
. . . Sad that it is about her 42 year old boyfriend’s funeral — he really was a tragic case. . .
. . . the problems of Weymouth’s boyfriend started when, as a Senate Intelligence Committee staffer, he was busted for a heroin purchase. But that did not stop him from being hired by Rupert Murdoch as editor of the New York Post or, in any way, slow his rise within the fanciest of bipartisan social and political circles. Nor did it affect his right-wing politics.
“After a period of rehabilitation, for his body, his psyche, and his reputation, Breindel signed on at the [N.Y.] Post’s editorial page in 1986. And immediately, he came out shooting bullets. Homeless people, poor people, gay people, the mentally ill, single mothers. All were subjected to Breindel’s uncharitable lashings. There were never even subtle shadings in his writing that indicated he was someone who knew what it was like to stumble, to give in to temptation, or simply to suffer from some common human failing…”
Favorite part, about the funeral itself. Even at the saddest of moments, Marty goes off.
“All of the speakers, even the pols, kept to the imposed three-to-four-minute time limit. Except Marty Peretz. Distraught over the loss of his friend and unhappy about sharing the moment, the Harvard professor and owner of The New Republic went on for nearly half an hour. . .”

SOURCE(NO LONGER AVAILABLE)-http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/20/amazing_story_of_why_washington_post_is_so_weirdly/

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