CBS’s Stephen Colbert did not appreciate the Washington Post’s “extra sinister” decision to refrain from endorsing Kamala Harris. On Monday’s edition of The Late Show, Colbert railed against the paper and declared it is failing to uphold its stated commitment to democracy and warn “about a looming fascist regime.”
Colbert began, “Kamala Harris has been racking up major endorsements, but this weekend, she didn’t get a big one because the Washington Post announced it will not endorse a presidential candidate in the upcoming election. Explains, yeah, I agree, explains why they changed their slogan from ‘democracy dies in darkness’ to “democracy dies or doesn’t. We can’t tell because it is so dark in here.”
He then quoted opinion editor David Shipley as saying, “The Post was no longer going to tell people how to vote, a posture…
