We knew this would happen and it wasn’t hard to predict.
Two weeks ago we told you about Ben Shapiro being invited by Politico editors to write their morning Playbook and how that triggered woke liberals into outrage all over the media, including at Politico, who read the Playbook every morning.
At the time Politico defended the decision, saying:
“We published a piece by a very prominent writer, provocateur, and podcaster. We stand by every word in there, it was very closely edited. Mischief making has always been a part of Politico’s secret sauce. We were an upstart. Some of that sensibility is always going to be a part of this publication.”
But just this week The Daily Beast wrote an article reporting that over 100+ outraged Politico staffers wrote the company’s chairman and publisher a letter decrying the move:
More than 100 Politico staffers signed onto a letter sent to publisher Robert Allbritton, expressing disgust with allowing right-wing firebrand Ben Shapiro to guest-author one day’s edition of the Playbook https://t.co/OhrNzMXbG7
— Tiago Dias (@TiagoDF) January 26, 2021
I noted at the end of my article two weeks ago that I believed Politico would end up breaking under the pressure, and now it appears they did exactly that, canceling both Guy Benson and Mary Katherine Ham after enthusiastically inviting them to write the Playbook:
My friends @guypbenson and @mkhammer were also asked to jointly guest-write Playbook. I know this because they told me so the day of the firestorm. The editors had sought them out and said they were enthused about having them (the same thing that happened with me).
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
The editors were supposed to set a hard date for their slot. Then, oddly enough, just after my issue of Playbook, Politico went dead silent on them. Communications stopped for days.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
Eventually they gave Guy and MKH an excuse — they'd overbooked. The same excuse you give your in-laws to avoid dinner. I know this because I noticed their bylines never appeared, and I asked Guy and MKH what happened. So they told me.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
Now, Guy and MKH don't need Playbook. They didn't ask for the gig. That's not the point. The point is that when the woke light the world on fire over liberals reaching across the aisle, the message is clear: don't try it again. So they don't.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
Message received. Conservatives are pre-emptively cancelled. Homogeneity maintained. Polarization increased. Well done, wokescolds! The world is still safe from the predations of dangerous thinkers like Guy and MKH — and anyone on the right.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
The woke liberal mob, which clearly runs Politico’s newsroom, wins again. This is exactly what happened when the New York Times allowed Senator Tom Cotton to write an opinion piece entitled “Send in the troops” last year during disastrous uprisings around the nation. Except in that instance the fallout was worse, as it cost the man who ran the Times’ opinion section his job.
I don’t know if anyone will lose their job over this at Politico, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. The woke liberal mob isn’t interested any longer in dialogue or agreeing to disagree. No, the opposition must be SILENCED so these radical socialists can rule with an iron fist. That is what they want and that sentiment seems to be shared by many these days. Just ask Parler.