President-elect Donald Trump's return to politics and Vice President Kamala Harris' resounding defeat resulted in more than complete Republican control of the federal government.
This victory was more than a defeat for the men's woke agenda in women's sports and the far left's obsession with abortion.
Apparently, this was also the idea of the Los Angeles Times editorial board.
Owner Pat Soon-Shiong said the bulletin board will be replaced so all voices can be heard.
No approval
The beginning of the end for the Trump-hating far-left editorial board was the paper's refusal to endorse Harris.
As The New American reported at the time, on Oct. 11, Soon-Shiong informed the board that the paper would not support Harris. The newspaper simply removed the endorsement from its regular list without giving a reason.
Editorial editor Mariel Garza and two other editors, Robert Green and Karin Klein, resigned in protest.
“I'm resigning because I want to make it clear that it's not okay for us to be silent,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review. “Dangerous times require honest people to stand up. This is how they are standing up.”
In his rambling resignation letter, Garza wrote that refusing to endorse Harris “undermines the integrity of the editorial board.”
“It makes us look crazy, hypocritical, and maybe even a little sexist and racist,” she wrote.
After eight years of taunting the danger that President Trump and his leadership pose to the country, why couldn't we support a perfectly decent Democratic challenger, someone we previously supported in a U.S. Senate race? .
The newspaper's union argued that Soon-Shiong had an obligation to explain the decision. Mr. Soon-Shiong owed an obligation to X. That was the editorial board's decision, he wrote.
“Please allow me to clarify how this decision was made,” Soon-Shiong wrote.
The editorial board will have the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the positive and negative policies each candidate has undertaken during their time in the White House and how those policies have affected the country. It was done. In addition, the Board was asked to provide an understanding of the policies and plans expressed by the candidates during this campaign and their potential impact on the nation over the next four years. In this way, this clear, nonpartisan array of information allows readers to decide who deserves to be president over the next four years.
Rather than adopting this policy as proposed, the editorial board chose to remain silent, and I accepted that decision.
In other words, while the board, like Harris, wanted to publish typical hysterical editorials likening Trump to Adolf Hitler, Soon-Shiong treats the candidate's policies evenly. I wanted a fairer way of thinking.
In any case, if the board refuses to follow Soon-Shiong's instructions regarding handling the approval, it is a choice not to approve, he said.
new editorial board
Now that Trump is president-elect, Soon-Shiong announced that the paper will not only begin to include more voices from the right and left, but will also have a new editorial board. Clearly, the board will no longer be a Democratic propaganda trumpet issuing heated accusations against Trump.
“We are proud to publish this letter from one of our readers on X,” Soon-Shiong wrote on the platform.
Once a president receives the votes of a majority of Americans, all voices must be heard. That's all there is to my opinion. I will strive to keep our newspapers and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard and the views of all Americans, left, right, and center, are respectfully exchanged. . Coming soon. New editorial board. Trust in the media is essential to a strong democracy.
The “letter” in question appears to be a response to a letter by LZ Granderson, a black columnist who suggested racial bias against Harris and falsely claimed that “white women gave President Trump victory.” It will be done.
“If I didn't know better, I'd think Granderson was a racist against white women by blaming them for the loss of Harris,” the writer complained.
I blame the Democratic Party for not holding a public convention and nominating a stronger candidate for President Trump. Instead, President Biden just handed over the reins to Harris after ending his candidacy in July.
She turned out to be an easy target for Republicans to blame for the economic downturn and immigration crisis. She was cast as simply too liberal.
Noting that Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was the right choice, the author concludes:
Don't blame white women. Blame the Democratic Party.
“The American people have spoken.”
White women aside, Soon-Shiong listened to the voices of the American people after it became clear in the early hours of November 7 that President Trump had harshly criticized Harris.
“The American people are speaking out, and @latimes will take the lead in providing fact-based, balanced reporting as the country heals its divisions,” he wrote to X.
But Soon-Shiong wasn't just listening to Americans in general. He listened to one demographic in particular.
The billionaire reposted Republican CNN analyst Scott Jennings' assessment.
Trump has a mission. The late-game mirage created by Harris' momentum was shattered by ordinary working-class Americans of all races.
Some may wonder whether Mr. Soon-Shiong voted for Mr. Trump. He is a nonpartisan political donor, but has given to Republicans since 2017. Last year, he donated about $10,000 to former Vice President Mike Pence's presidential campaign. He has also donated to the National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, and Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state. .
H/T: Fox News