September 15, 2025

WAPO EDITOR: I Got Fired Over Charlie Kirk.

[Karen] Attiah sources this from an article rushed out by The Guardian less than 24 hours after Kirk’s death that attempted to argue sotto voce that Kirk had it coming. Even if one grants the Guardian the presumption that they took his words in context, Attiah changed the quote the Guardian provided at the link she used as a reference. This is the quote that the Guardian allegedly pulled from Kirk’s show in July 2023:

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

Note that the quote doesn’t include the phrase “black women” at all. Kirk referenced four specific black women in this criticism, arguing that their own words made them look like affirmative-action charity cases. The “you” in this case refers to the four women he named. Attiah rewrote this quote to make it sound as though Kirk was talking about all black women.

That is journalistic fraud. And that is likely why the Post just handed Attiah her walking papers. She lied to readers, and did so to imply that Charlie Kirk had it coming. She used quotation marks to sell her fraud, knowing damned well that quotation marks mean something to readers, and that falsely representing a quote in that manner is corrupt.

More here: “The real question is how she kept her job this long. While I’m glad the Post finally took action, it is absurd that Attiah was kept on the payroll for years on end, even as she excused violence against her perceived political opponents and promoted the ideas of Islamic terrorists. Lastly, lest anyone believe Attiah was a free speech absolutist, she lobbied to get the editor fired who published Tom Cotton’s 2020 op-ed suggesting the use of the military to quell widespread, left-wing riots.”

Attiah was pro October 7th: WaPo Columnist Celebrates Anti-Jew Terrorism As Exactly What ‘Decolonization’ Means.

And long before she cheerfully smeared Charlie Kirk as a crypto-racist, Attiah was doing the same thing to her fellow leftist, Nancy Pelosi, in 2019:

UPDATE:

Also, since we didn’t mention it in the original post, what’s the message she’s sending in her bon voyage photo?

Posted at 9:22 pm by Ed Driscoll