Karen Attiah, the radical left-wing beefcake columnist at the Washington Post, faces an uncertain future after rejecting the paper’s offer of a buyout. Oliver Darcy, the disgraced former CNN journalist, reported this week that Attiah’s decision came after a meeting with Post opinion editor Adam O’Neal that “was tense and went poorly, to put it mildly.”
O’Neal has held numerous meetings with Post opinion staffers since joining the paper in June, Darcy noted. He has sought to arrange amicable, voluntary exits for journalists whose activist political views do not align with his goal of publishing content that normal Americans might actually want to read. Many liberal staffers, including the preeminent fact-checker Glenn Kessler, have opted to leave.
Attiah’s propensity for radical left-wing screeds makes her a prime candidate for a buyout. She accused the Post of subverting democracy by declining to endorse Kamala Harris last year. She expressed solidarity with Hamas terrorists and once threatened to inflict “vengeance” on white women. She routinely denounces Republicans for allegedly plotting to reimpose racial segregation. Earlier this year, she founded a “Resistance Summer School” for emotionally unstable liberals.
“We’re teaching the resistance and we’re gonna look cute!” Attiah said in a recent Instagram video. “The world is falling apart but mwah, mwah, mwah, look at our lip gloss.”
Darcy suggests the left-wing columnist expected the new opinion editor to “affirm her value and express a desire to keep her,” while O’Neal assumed she would take the buyout and leave. As it stands, Attiah now “faces a stark choice: adapt to O’Neal’s vision or risk [her] future in the opinion section.” Instead, Attiah appears to be weighing a third option: suing the paper for racism. “So.. officially, I’m the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post’s opinion section,” Attiah wrote ominously on X last month.
Her journalistic output has grown increasingly bizarre since Trump took office. Her most recent column, published earlier this month, was about the profound political implications of buffing up in the gym. She purports to have gained 20 pounds of muscle in pursuit of her stated fitness goals: to become “hotter and more lethal” and to build “legs strong enough to crush men’s hopes and dreams.”
Attiah celebrated her birthday on Tuesday with a professional photoshoot to showcase her “Ghanaian culture, strength and softness in difficult times,” not to mention her burgeoning obsession with swordplay. In what could be a hint of an impending career change, she posted an article about it on her Substack page and urged her fans to subscribe for $7 a month.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about my roots and swords lately,” Attiah wrote. “Perhaps it’s my inner child, or the mythology nerd in me, but I believe in heroic transformations.” She lamented once again that her alma mater, Columbia University, canceled the class she was scheduled to teach about “Race and Journalism,” presumably in an effort to minimize the embattled school’s promotion of radical left-wing anti-Semitism, and alluded to new beginnings in a broken world.
“I have long said that this moment calls for many of us to pivot, to transform, to move differently,” the formidable journalist mused. “Heroes have become monsters. Institutions are collapsing. Cowardice is reigning, greed is supreme, and the darkness is here.”
Godspeed, truth warrior.
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