Jeff Bezos makes his move at the Washington Post, and Speaker Johnson prevails.

For now, we'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always, by the right, Honorable Charles, C.W. Cook, Jack Butler, and the notorious M.B.D.

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So MBD, it was the owner's memo heard around the world. Jeff Bezos sends a

memo to Washington Post staff saying, you know what? Our opinion section now is going to be

devoted almost wholly to defending markets and personal liberties. Of course, we'll cover some other stuff,

but dissenting views on these matters,

they'll be published someplace else.

And David Shipley, the opinion editor at the Washington Post, quits.

And you have current and former Washington Post employees up in arms

over Jeff Bezos imposing himself on his own

newspaper in this manner. What do you make?

Well, it's, I mean, it's part of a trend, isn't it, where, you know, Silicon Valley is asserting itself politically in the last several years.

You know, Elon Musk being one example, Mark Zuckerberg now taking this big free speech stand.

And then Jeff Bezos, of course, bought the Washington Post in order to have some influence, and now he really wants to wield it.

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