Don't Go Away Mad, Just Go Away: Jonathan Capehart's Tearful Farewell to The Washington Post

Hey, Siri ... play me some Queen!

'Ba-da-bum-bum-bum, another one bites the dust.
Ba-da-bum-bum-bum, another one bites the dust.
And another one gone, and another one gone,
Another one bites the dust!'

Yes, in case anyone hasn't heard, another rat has abandoned the S.S. Dead Legacy Media, as Jonathan Capehart announced yesterday that he was leaving The Washington Post, effective immediately.

Goodbye, Washington Post https://t.co/Bf5743bzx5
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) July 31, 2025

We suppose we shouldn't celebrate too much.

After all, Capehart still has his weekend gig at MSNBC (and all 7 of his viewers), but Capehart's farewell, which he posted on his Substack, is just replete with schadenfreudelicious cope that was too unintentionally hilarious to resist.

How can we communicate with optimism about the future in general when we’re living in the here-and-now where American democracy is in peril?
Or put another way: How can one constantly extol the beauty of a home’s doors, crown moldings and windows when the rest of the house is engulfed in flames and its foundation is flooding?

Sweet Jebus, what a drama queen.

All Jeff Bezos said is that he wanted to have more opinions in the Post's pages that reflected free markets and individual liberty.

But that was just too much for Capehart to bear.

He continued:

The administration is defying court orders.
The administration is using masked federal agents to snatch people off the streets and send them to hellish prisons abroad.
The administration deployed the military on the streets of an American city.
The President is using his office to enrich himself and his family.
The President has turned Congress, a co-equal branch of government, into the staff wing of the Executive branch.
And we’re supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with on their news pages and websites?

LOL.

In other words, once you sift through all of Capehart's BS there, the Trump administration is doing exactly what 78 million voters elected him to do.

Finally, Capehart ended by praising himself as a martyr to free speech and independent thought, two concepts that he has betrayed ad nauseum at the Post for the past 18 years.

One of the life lessons I share in my memoir is to 'go where your talents are wanted.' On this day, my last day after nearly two decades at The Washington Post, I will amend it: Go where your writing talents are wanted and where your voice will be heard.
I will let you know where that is, once I find it.

Yeah, you be sure to do that. We won't hold our breath.

But goodbye and good riddance. Don't let the door hit ya' where the Good Lord split ya.'

Needless to say, Caphart's valediction was not greeted with the paeans of praise that he wanted it to be.

Trash taking out themselves... https://t.co/jh2XCmMvKW pic.twitter.com/xdRCWeSDb3
— John Coctostan (@coctolstan) August 1, 2025

YOU WONT BE MISSED! https://t.co/btwX0gnyO6
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 31, 2025

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA https://t.co/ofDovJ21Hf pic.twitter.com/dqZqf3oZcF
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 1, 2025

'Deployed the military on America's streets' was one of my favorite bits of gaslighting in his farewell.

Maybe if Capehart and the rest of the left weren't encouraging lawless rioters to attack federal agents, the military wouldn't be needed to keep everyone safe.

Learn to code. https://t.co/m0q82BsWBN
— Redacted (@LostSoul_76) August 1, 2025

https://t.co/FznLAT0jJw pic.twitter.com/zTAJJ6VCNk
— Dan Torrance (@Great_AZCatsby) August 1, 2025

To be completely honest, I had forgotten that Capehart even still wrote for the Post. I thought he just filled his time with moderating Democrat forums where he demanded everyone pass a purity test by acknowledging that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election because of 'sexism and racism.'

Jeff Bezos is quietly cleaning house at Washington Post and the funniest thing is no one cares https://t.co/hQRHrIJDj9
— Alec Sears (@alec_sears) July 31, 2025

The most ironic part of Capehart's ridiculous eulogy to himself is that The Washington Post hasn't really changed at all.

It is still a bastion of leftist groupthink, of which Capehart is a devoted acolyte.

The reporting and opinion pages are as bad as they've ever been. Just this year alone (and we're only in July), I have written more than a dozen articles about their disgraceful news coverage and op-eds on every subject from immigration to race to Hunter Biden.

I don't know if I could count all of the Twitchy articles written this year about the Post if I included all of our great editors and freelancers. It would definitely top the century mark.

For crying out loud, they even gave an op-ed to Mahmoud Khalil this spring!

The truth is that Capehart's departure has nothing to do with Bezos or the Post itself. It is not a reflection on them, it is a reflection on HIM.

Like most leftists, he simply cannot abide anyone -- anyone at all -- being given a platform to speak if they think even a little bit differently than he does.

So, like the prissy, intellectually inferior coward that he is, he quit.

Well, good luck with that. No one watches Capehart's MSNBC weekend show, and no one subscribes to his Substack, except for a couple of thousand equally brain-dead leftists.