Fox News' Howard Kurtz joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss his take on Jeff Bezos' decision to not have The Washington Post endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 race.

It is not every day that you go from being Obi-Wan Kenobi to Sheev Palpatine in twenty-four hours. However, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos now has the distinction of having Luke (Mark Hamill) lead a boycott of his "democracy dies in darkness" newspaper as the daily of the darkside.

Figures like former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney shared this week that she had canceled her subscription to the paper. NPR reported on Tuesday that 250,000 subscribers had cut ties with the news outlet. As of this writing, the Washington Post has not confirmed the number of canceled subscriptions. Some, like anti-Trump lawyer and activist George Conway, even appeared to wink at his followers and quietly target Bezos' Amazon.

It is a familiar pattern for many of us (on a smaller scale) who used to be associated with the left and faced canceled campaigns for questioning the orthodoxy in the media or academia.

Then something fascinating happened. Bezos stood his ground.

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The left has made an art form of flash-mob politics, crushing opposition with the threat of economic or professional ruin. Most cave to the pressure, including business leaders like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.

That record came to a screeching halt when the unstoppable force of the........

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