Ever hear of Philip Bump? If not, you will – he is the Washington Post\’s latest hire for its “The Fix” web site.
Dailycaller.com\’s Brendan Bordelon has the lowdown on Bump – who is an aggressively far-left hatchet man if there ever was one – and you can read it by clicking here. But, in the meanwhile, here\’s just a taste:
Accordingto the political blog San Jose Inside, in 2009 Bump worked forthe South Bay Labor Council (SBLC), a Silicon Valley-based uniongroup with a penchant for making the political personal.
Bump,for his part, was SBLC\’s political director and administrator of”San Jose Revealed,” a pro-union website which publishedvitriolic hit pieces against the Council’s perceived enemies.
Underhis direction, “San Jose Revealed” published the personal address- obtained under spurious circumstances – of a frequent target ofpro-union groups. This individual\’s home was later vandalized, withproperty destroyed and defiled with swastika graffiti.
Bumpalso reportedly published a map to the house of a deputy districtattorney who prosecuted violent Bay Area gangs for a living, shamed alocal business owner\’s daughter for an unpaid garbage bill andposted the Match.com dating profile of an opposing local politician.
Acursory reviewof even his most recent articles for The Wire – one mockingformer Republican governor Jeb Bush’s bank account, one admittedly”trolling“the conservative Heritage Foundation for “making Obamacare work,”still another suggestinginherent racism in the Republican Party – reveals a talented writerwith an unapologetically progressive bent.
Just what the Washington Post needs to even things out. An ultra-leftist, to bring it back from it\’s overload of conservative personne….oh, wait.
On a more serious note, it is not easy for a paper like the Washington Post to lurch leftward – not considering where it is right now. But lurch leftward it most certainly has.
Congratulations guys. I assume you know who and what Philip Bump is, so I assume you got what you wanted.
