How Is It Any of My Business If You Donate to the Canadian Truckers?
HINT: Rhymes with "hit snot"
First things first: I messed up yesterday. Worse than usual, even. Here’s the correction.
Here’s my philosophy about what people do with the money they earn: I don’t care. It’s none of my business. If you want to donate to a political candidate, go ahead. If you give to charity, awesome. If you donate to bail somebody out of jail, or to help somebody stage a peaceful protest, or whatever, you have the right to do that. It doesn’t matter if I agree with your goals or not.
But then, I’m not a journo.
“Leaked fundraising data.” Who leaked it? Why did they leak it? Isn’t the violation of privacy the news story here?
How is it the Washington Post’s business, or anybody else’s, what those people do with their money? And why didn’t this “leaked data” standard apply to Hunter Biden’s laptop?
These are all, of course, rhetorical questions.
Compare and contrast that with this story:
Is WaPo going to ask those donors why they helped bail out a BLM activist who shot at a Louisville mayoral candidate in his own campaign office? Of course not. They don’t want their comrades to scold them for letting down the side. And they definitely don’t want anybody to accuse them of racism.
Journalism is about intimidating people who disagree with you politically, and helping people on your own team no matter what they do. And then journos wonder why we don’t trust them.