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Taylor Lorenz Rips Fellow Lib’s COVID Quip, Showing Again No One At WaPo Can Take A Joke

Greg Wilson
Taylor Lorenz Rips Fellow Lib’s COVID Quip, Showing Again No One At WaPo Can Take A Joke
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More evidence has emerged that the Washington Post’s newsroom can’t take a joke after lightning rod reporter Taylor Lorenz took offense at a Father’s Day COVID quip by a fellow left-wing journalist.

Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of Vox and an influential liberal pundit, tried to crack wise on Twitter after learning he had contracted COVID-19. But Lorenz, like former colleague Felicia Sonmez, who was fired after blasting a colleague and the paper over a mildly sexist joke, didn’t think it was funny.

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