Some 700 employees of the Washington Post are staging a 24-hour walkout this week. It’s a protest against job cuts and what the employees see as low wages. This comes in the wake of massive layoffs and a $100 million dollar loss at the paper.

So for one entire day the Washington Post will not be churning out fake news.

Let’s take a look at a few of the people who are walking out. I plucked a few of them at random from a video the Washington Post Guild, the union representing writers, posted this week to announce the walkout. (None of these people look like they could throw a football ten yards, but that’s a different story.)

A Random Assortment of the Unimpressive

First there is a woman named Haben Kelati. She is the assistant editor for the Post’s advice column, A Google search reveals that most of the columns she edits are ones which “ask readers” to provide the advice … I guess because regular advice columnist Carolyn Hax is too busy. So the Post is basically using readers to do Hax’s job. Nice work if you can get it.

Kelati also appears to have a problem with Israel. Her Twitter feed feature links to several articles critical of Israel in favor of Hamas, including one about a Gaza hospital that blew up. The AP report, which was widely criticized and then corrected, falsely claimed that the hospital was destroyed by Israeli rockets. It was actually bombed by a Hamas rocket that misfired. Not enough? Kelati retweeted a rapper whining about gender norms and “capitalism.”

Who else is walking out and featured in the Post video? 

Well, there’s Amy Brittain.

Brittain is an “investigative journalist.” Her big scoop came in 2018, when she unearthed the staggering news that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had purchased baseball tickets for a group of friends on a credit card  … and then paid off the balance later. Daily Wire reporter Paul Bois put it well:

“Thanks to some class-A truth-seeking at The Washington Post, the unsuspecting public now knows the great scandal that President Trump has heaped upon them with his SCOTUS pick: Judge Kavanaugh once had credit card debt. But wait, there’s more (and this is truly egregious), he then had the audacity to pay it off.”

Pundit Jeryl Bier added, “Brett Kavanaugh is just like many average Americans. HOW DARE WE PUT HIM ON THE SUPREME COURT?!”
Readers of The Stream will know that the Washington Post tried to destroy me during the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. I wrote an entire book about how The Post

• accused me of sexual misconduct, then withheld exonerating witnesses;
• interviewed people who talked trash about me and Brett, but had never met us; and
• did an explosive investigative piece on an underground newsletter we cranked out in high school. 

I have called out the Washington Post for five years on its lies. Its staff of cowards will not respond. The Washington Post is a dumpster fire.

Wait, There’s More

Who else has their hand out in the pleading, self-righteous Post video? There’s Lindsey Sitz, who said she “covered an insurrection.” Translation: she took some pictures on January 6 when a bunch of knuckleheads went into the Capitol building. 

There’s also a publicist named Kathleen Floyd. Does anyone reading this think that “Washington Post publicist” is a job that should exist?

Finally we have Gene Park, the video game reviewer for the Post. Video games are a huge business and deserve to be covered. The problem is … nobody reads Gene Park, and the Washington Post just lost $100 million dollars. 

Gene Park can actually do what I was doing before the Washington Post blew my life apart. He can do video game reviews for a couple hundred dollars a pop. I was the comic book and video game reviewer for the Catholic News Service for several years. It was a freelance gig. I considered myself lucky to be making an extra $200 a week to read Captain America and play the great skateboarding game Olli Olli. 

When the Post launched their hit on me, the Catholic News Service never contacted me again. So the way I see it, the Washington Post owes me money — not to mention an apology. Before they line up to cry about how important they are, they can hit my tip jar. 

Mark Judge is a writer and filmmaker in Washington, D.C. His new book is The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi.