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*Sigh*
This is what I was talking about here:
Josh Marshall intentionally and dishonestly cut off a KC's quote to suggest he was saying something else. Instead of calling it out, even respected journalists like Tapper are repeating it a day later.
This is what I was talking about here:
Josh Marshall intentionally and dishonestly cut off a KC's quote to suggest he was saying something else. Instead of calling it out, even respected journalists like Tapper are repeating it a day later.
Here was my original criticism of the interview with the video linked:
You can watch the relevant part at 1:34. He was correctly explaining the historical context for the word "wretched" and how "public charge" requirement was consistent w those words.
You can watch the relevant part at 1:34. He was correctly explaining the historical context for the word "wretched" and how "public charge" requirement was consistent w those words.
They cut off the quote to (falsely) imply KC was arguing the language was only relevant to Europeans. Journalists should have called Marshall out for the distortions. Instead, a bunch of them (inc publications like daily beast and huff po) spread and copied the smear.
It's not that the right has any less dishonest operatives or grifters than the left. They don't. I can namely plenty. The problem is that the people charged as gatekeepers against dishonesty tend to elevate and parrot those people on the left, while calling them out on the right.
And when someone on the right smears a public figure, the smear doesn't get adopted in mainstream publications. I mean just look at how the NYDN portrayed KC's comments based on Marshall's tweet. Zero resemblance to what he said. 
