CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.
I did. It’s not a great picture because I took it myself and I’m a little sundrenched. Glad CNN used the bass pic instead. www.instagram.com/p/C7VBAYcPPV...
I have published hundreds of opinion essays (as well as reported features and other kinds of pieces). But just for opinion essays – and they have always required a certain minimum level of evidence, and sometimes a ton of evidence.
Maybe There will be some explanation that people have the wrong guy when they’ve looked up his voting record. I don’t know. I’ll go back to my general statement That opinion pages should not be printing falsifiable bullshit. That should not be the job.
A few years ago, Marc A. Thiessen ran an opinion piece whose title claimed "[v]accinated Americans are more likely to die from a lightning strike than covid"
Naturally, he was comparing a yearly risk of COVID-19 death to a lifetime risk of lightning death, even according to his own linked source.
Yes. Every outlet seems to have a conservative editor who publishes whatever the conservative writers want without checking. I assume it’s good business.
If they do have the wrong guy, he's in the same town of 8,000 people, and with approximately the same age (effectively ruling out a brother or son).
And he registered JUST IN TIME for the 2000 election, too.
God, if every Democrat had this commitment to voting, Biden would win 400 EVs.
