As Rick Hess writes here, the Washington Post has published a nasty little piece about Trump’s choice for Education secretary, Linda McMahon. The piece is bereft of any substantive commentary on her views on the role of the department, but instead focuses on a long-ago kerfuffle over her educational credentials. Much ado about nothing.

Hess writes:

In a triple-bylined story featured prominently on its homepage, yesterday, less than 24 hours after Linda McMahon was nominated to be secretary of education, the Post breathlessly reported that McMahon had “incorrectly claimed in 2009 that she had a bachelor’s degree in education on a questionnaire for a Connecticut Board of Education post.”

The Post’s supposed scandal is even dumber than it sounds. You see, as the Post notes, McMahon student taught and earned her teaching credential while completing her bachelor’s degree in French at East Carolina University. So the “issue” is that she indicated she had a BA in teaching rather than a teaching credential and a BA. Yep, that’s the “scandal” the Post has unearthed. I wish I were kidding.

Now that the feds are going to have DOGE, I think Jeff Bezos ought to think about creating something similar for his newspaper, designed to sweep out all the reporters do nothing more than prattle away on standard leftist gripes about non-leftists.

After the election, it has perhaps occurred to Bezos (and maybe even some of the writers) that America has largely tuned out the opinion-mongering of the likes of those Post reporters. He can save money and perhaps begin to restore his paper’s reputation by eschewing hit pieces like this one.