Thread by @MatthewBoedy

So my local newspaper gave space to ⁦@Rep_Clyde⁩ to continue his lies about Jan. 6th. When a reporter asked to speak w/ him, his staff pointed instead to this editorial. While he faithfully served in the military, Clyde cowardly avoids questions. gainesvilletimes.com/columnists/gue…

Clyde invokes Reagan’s mantra about not talking about fellow GOPers, saying Liz Cheney was “Impugning Donald Trump’s character.” The cognitive dissonance only gets worse from there. He says the GOP must move forward, while hanging on to Trump. #gapol

Clyde continues by implication the martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot by Capitol police as she tried to get through a barricaded door. Clyde, who notes he was behind the House barricade, notes Babbitt as an Air Force veteran but doesn’t say why she was shot. #gapol

Clyde reframed his comments the week about “tourists” in the Capitol by unethically creating a idiotic context - that if someone saw one clip “you would think it looked like a regular day of tourists visiting the building.” He lies then too. #gapol

The insurrectionists were not in a “orderly fashion respectfully walking through…” Clyde must find some lie here to keep his story going. It’s an absurd claim and the @gtimes gave space for it.

I suppose it is fair to give space to someone you are editorializing against, as the Times did. But give it in the news section. “Clyde declined to answer questions” is way better than 850 words free of truth. See Times editorial here: gainesvilletimes.com/opinion/editor…