The abrupt departure of a cartoonist from The Washington Post over an editorial decision is not just “much ado about nothing,” in the view of radio host James Golden.

The radio producer and host also known as Bo Snerdley weighed in on his “conflicting views” over the latest turmoil at the left-wing newspaper after Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit when her latest work was rejected.

NewsNation host Nick Smith felt the drawing was “just a poke,” referring to the image of that depicted tech giants like Amazon founder and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos groveling before President-elect Donald Trump.

News Nation this morning. I was on with the great journalist Nick Smith. The uproar at The Washington Post pic.twitter.com/7xfNqoHtCd

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Telnaes, who’s been at the outlet for 16 years, “seems to have felt as though the rejection was a personal one,” Smith said as he spoke with Golden on “Morning in America” Monday. He noted that the cartoonist’s statement about her decision claimed the move by the outlet was “dangerous for a free press.”

“The Washington Post, they so proudly wave around their slogan, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ Well, apparently, fearless journalism can die in broad daylight over at The Washington Post,” Golden mused.

“That’s one point of view, but on the other hand, Nick, I do have sympathy. Can you imagine being that editor and having to walk in and explain to Jeff Bezos that you ran a cartoon that was critical of him in his own newspaper? If he doesn’t like it, what happens to you? Do you get sent to the Amazon packing house in Alaska, or you have to be put in charge of selling oat milk at Whole Foods?” the WABC radio host wondered, emphasizing thatizing that the billionaire is “pretty powerful.”

“There’s a lot of unhappiness at The Washington Post these days,” he added, noting how leftist members of its editorial board and reporters quit after WaPo chose not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in her failed bid for the White House.

Bezos’s decision to have dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and announcing that Amazon would donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund also sent the left into an uproar.

“The Washington Post has spent five years demonizing Donald Trump, so to a lot of the staff there, they are just out in the twilight zone. They can’t believe this is happening,” Golden told Smith who suggested Bezos has “thicker skin” and would not have been outraged enough by the satirical cartoon to kill it.

“He may have, but if he doesn’t, beware,” warned Golden, who spent three decades working with the late great Rush Limbaugh.

“There’s a solution to all of this,” Golden noted, joking that “leftist journalists who don’t like toeing the line at The Washington Post, they can always collectively march on down to Miami and do a little march on Jeff Bezos’s yacht.”

“Journalism dies in broad daylight, over at The Washington Post,” he reiterated.