{"id":460124,"date":"2021-04-27T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460124"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:50:21","slug":"bezos-owned-washington-post-endorses-terry-mcauliffe-over-two-qualified-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bezos-owned-washington-post-endorses-terry-mcauliffe-over-two-qualified-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos-Owned Washington Post Endorses Terry McAuliffe Over Two Qualified Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbezos-owned-washington-post-endorses-terry-mcauliffe-over-two-qualified-black-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.538461538462\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Former DNC fundraiser was instrumental in luring Amazon to Virginia with lucrative tax incentives<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1027.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1026.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bezos-va-gov-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bezos-va-gov-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bezos-va-gov-705x491.jpg 705w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\">\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 April 27, 2021 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"95.572529782761\">\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>, a news blog owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has issued a controversial endorsement in the Virginia governor&#8217;s race, backing a white man over two qualified black women seeking the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em> editorial board on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/terry-mcauliffe-was-a-first-rate-governor-he-makes-a-compelling-case-that-he-would-be-again\/2021\/04\/26\/5c6012d4-a448-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Terry McAuliffe, who was elected governor in 2014 despite having no political experience beyond raising money for Democrats. The <em>Post<\/em>, which also endorsed McAuliffe in 2014, explained its decision by noting that McAuliffe&#8217;s rivals, including two black women serving in state government, are &#8220;relatively untested&#8221; and lack political experience.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates Jennifer McClellan, a state senator from Richmond, and Jennifer Carroll Foy, a former state lawmaker, are each trying to make history and become the first black woman to serve as governor (of any state) in American history. The <em>Post<\/em> believes history will have to wait because these qualified black women are unable to match McAuliffe&#8217;s &#8220;talent for persuasion and strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That talent was on full display in 2017, when Amazon announced its search for a location to build a second North American headquarters. Then-governor McAuliffe was instrumental in persuading Amazon to select Arlington, Va., located just outside Washington, D.C., in one of America&#8217;s richest counties. The trillion-dollar company was lured to the state in part by tax incentives worth up to $750 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s endorsement, which does not mention the Amazon deal, is not the first time the Bezos-owned paper has embraced a white politician in a controversial and potentially racially charged fashion. In 2019, for example, the editorial board demanded the resignation of Gov. Ralph Northam (D., Va.) after he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/ralph-northams-yearbook-page-contains-picture-of-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe\/\">admitted<\/a> to wearing either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood in a photo published in his medical school yearbook. Less than a year later, the <em>Post<\/em> published a second editorial recanting its call for Northam&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Northam survived the racism scandal in large part due to his party affiliation, but it didn&#8217;t hurt that the person who would have succeeded him, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D.), has been credibly accused of sexual assault. Fairfax didn&#8217;t resign either. In fact, he is running for governor in the Democratic primary. During a debate earlier this month, Fairfax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/06\/us\/politics\/virginia-governor-mcauliffe-fairfax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> McAuliffe of treating him like Emmitt Till or George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day the Bezos-owned paper endorsed McAuliffe, its executive fact checker Glenn Kessler\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-biden-lies\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that the <em>Post<\/em> will no longer maintain its database of President Joe Biden&#8217;s lies. The paper will continue to fact check claims from politicians, Kessler said. Last week, for example, he took Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) to task for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-tim-scott\/\">suggesting<\/a> that his grandfather\u2014a black farmer who grew up in South Carolina during the Great Depression\u2014did not lead a particularly privileged life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Former DNC fundraiser was instrumental in luring Amazon to Virginia with lucrative tax incentives  Andrew Stiles \u2022 April 27, 2021 4:40 pm The Washington &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276858,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1027.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Bezos-Owned Washington Post Endorses Terry McAuliffe Over Two Qualified Black Women","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1027.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Bezos-Owned Washington Post Endorses Terry McAuliffe Over Two Qualified Black Women","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}