The no-standards left is run by scoundrels, fraudsters and morons now

The American left’s advocacy for tried-and-failed ideas, embrace of fair-is-foul and foul-is-fair morality and disdain for excellence has — surprise, surprise — rendered it incapable of rebuking its ascendant class of scoundrels, fraudsters and morons.Exhibit A: the celebration of Karen Attiah’s reinstatement at The Washington Post by a mouth-breathing arbitrator on Monday.After announcing the news on X, Attiah, a race-hustling antisemite who was let go last September over a series of jaw-dropping social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, was greeted like a war hero returning from the front.Jim Acosta called it “Great news!”; George Conway congratulated her; Peter Beinart marveled at her “courage.”For her part, Attiah asserted that she had been fired “for speaking the truth after Charlie Kirk’s killing.”As is her custom, she had gotten it completely backwards.Devoid of intelligent thought and replete with hideous instincts, Attiah took to the keyboard after Kirk’s murder by a politically motivated cretin.“Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence,” Attiah mused in one hateful (is there any other kind?) Bluesky post.In another, she attributed the suggestion that “Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously.You have to go steal a white person’s slot” to Kirk.The problem — and for the uninitiated, this is a biggie in the field of journalism — is that she fabricated the quote.What Kirk had actually argued was that the left wished to have its cake and eat it too on affirmative action.Attiah lied about what Kirk said, misconstrued opposition to racial quotas as appalling bigotry and smeared the victim of a grisly murder.Both revolting and incompetent, she’s the kind of person you’d be embarrassed to know, much less employ.Yet none other than former President Barack Obam...