He sounds crazy and its hard to believe (well, maybe not so much) that he is in a position with that kind of responsibility. I mean, it is absolutely reasonable to assume Biden (and those propping him up) won’t concede the election (neither will Trump), and it is absolutely reasonable to assume that there will be a violent reaction by the left if Trump wins, as there has been violence already and the Atlantic recently published something suggesting that the only way to avoid further violence is for Biden to win in a landslide. But the sedition part is fantastical, as are the claims of fear from living in DC.
Also, that first paragraph is journalistic malpractice and exactly why people no longer trust the Times. Is the statement outlandish? Of course, but that is a political characterization, and it’s so pejorative it should never be in a journalist’s lead paragraph. It reads like someone at Breitbart wrote it.
Fox, no paragon of objectivity, would never include that characterization in a NEWS article. Similarly, they would never claim something was “false“ nearly because of the unlikeliness of the charge. Say it’s without substantiation because it is, but false implies that you’ve investigated it, and you haven’t. You’ve just already determined that it’s false, and that is not a journalist’s job to draw that conclusion in the absence of evidence just because it sounds deranged.
I’d be interested to know when some of the folks on your side—and don’t kid anyone, you have one—are going to start holding your own norm-breaking accountable? Because right now, all standards have been abandoned in the name of one narcissistic megalomaniac. And doing so makes it more likely, not less, that he’ll continue operating outside those norms. The next time you and a couple others here criticize the left will be the first. If you want to be the other side’s spitting image of a few of the Trumpkins, be my guest, but I would aspire to something better than that.
WASHINGTON — The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the
coronavirus made outlandish and false claims on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and warned that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.