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regnaD kciN

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1. Irony is dead...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2024, 08:44 PM

Oct 2024

The Seattle Times (a.k.a. the Blethen Family Newsletter, a.k.a. the Seattle Fishwrap) started this whole thing, in an even worse manner, back in 2000, when the editorial department was finishing its endorsement of Al Gore, only to have publisher Frank Blethen overrule them and order them to endorse Dubya instead. For them to be patting themselves on the back this time around, without acknowledging that they started the problem, is the height of chutzpah.

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Irony is dead... regnaD kciN Oct 2024 #1

Welcome to Planet Earth, Seattle Times. Aristus Oct 2024 #2