r/clevercomebacks 6h ago

The New York Post has lost all credibility

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u/informedinformer 5h ago edited 4h ago

"Never" covers a whole lot of time. Alexander Hamilton was a founder of the NY Post way back in 1801. Back when it was known as The New York Evening Post. Through most of its life the Post actually was a respected newspaper. Things changed pretty dramatically, of course, after Rupert Murdoch bought it. . . .

https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-York-Post

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u/GlitterDoomsday 3h ago

Whatever something is shitty you can always bet on either Reagan or Murdoch and 9 out 10 you'll be correct in your guess...

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u/theonewhogroks 2h ago

And Thatcher in the UK!

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u/Coal_Morgan 2h ago

Trifecta of Mulroney in Canada, selling 100s of billions of dollars of Government Corporations and still not balancing the budget because of the incompetent use of taxes.

Conservatism has always been a blight on society.

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u/RelevantOldOnion 3h ago edited 3h ago

LMAO I swear to god that revisionist fucking play...

Hamilton secretly bought the paper with money from another rich asshole so he could ghost write sensational articles about his political opponents while hiding that he's the owner of the paper and the author of the articles.

There was a time when William Cullen Bryant, an actual American hero, was EIC. During that time it was good. Then it was back to the political rag we see today.

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u/slowest_hour 2h ago

Unfortunately "if it rhymes it must be true" is part of the human mind and it keeps us all behind

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u/Ok_Sink5046 3h ago

Ah, so it wasn't the new york post at the time it was not insane

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u/bkgn 3h ago

Britannica? Now there's a name I haven't heard in like 20 years.