The hilarious opening scene from the Decline and Fall of the Guardian, the radical left-wing British rag that tried to embed itself into America only to find that without the Snowden pipeline, it had nothing to offer.
It was the morning of February 23, and staffers gathered at the company’s office in lower Manhattan, an immense space that the British newspaper once hoped would be home to a 300-person-strong US digital arm.
At the meeting, Guardian US editor Lee Glendinning announced that the company had signed a lease agreement to move to a smaller Brooklyn office.
It was a room full of journalists, so the questions flew. Where? What’s the address? According to multiple people at the meeting, one reporter remarked that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, owned some buildings in Brooklyn. Was this one of them?
A rattled Glendinning said sharply that it wasn’t, according to the attendees. Reporters pulled up news articles, raising their phones to show that it was indeed property owned by Kushner, who divested some of his family real estate empire’s holdings to join the White House.
The newsroom was incredulous. Some wondered if the Guardian expected sources to feel secure communicating with reporters inside a Kushner building.
A month later, Glendinning announced a change of plans: Guardian US would instead relocate to Midtown Manhattan, a worse commute for many of its Brooklyn-based journalists but to a building without a White House connection. Interim Guardian US CEO Evelyn Webster told staff that the blunder cost the company about $250,000 — a figure that, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances, reflected the loss of expected cost savings from the original move.
It cost $250K to a company already bleeding jobs and inconvenienced everyone. But it spites the father of the guy married to Donald Trump's daughter.
"Some wondered if the Guardian expected sources to feel secure communicating with reporters inside a Kushner building."
Did the Guardian's laziest and craziest think that the Kushners had bugged all their buildings?
This is how insanely self-destructive the left has become.