'Alito didn’t give ProPublica the comment it requested, which would doubtless have been truncated and distorted. Instead, he laid out his case in hundreds of his own uninterrupted words in a prebuttal article...' -hgurdon
decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion. Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, also suffer their unfair share of Left-wing denigration.follows the usual pattern. In a disingenuous just-the-facts-ma’am tone, it includes and excludes selectively so nothing can be said to be flat wrong, but the end result is deceptive and amounts to what the authors clearly want readers to take as an open and shut case of judicial corruption.
The essence of this week’s accusation is that Alito accepted three days of hospitality fishing in Alaska, flew there on a private jet owned by billionaire Paul Singer, did not declare this in financial disclosures, and did not recuse himself when cases came before the court in which Singer had an interest. The story struts and frets its minutes upon the stage, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
The pattern of most such denigration campaigns relies on the truth of the maxim that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. Exculpatory context emerges only after the poison of the allegations has had time to sink in.had Alito’s counter-narrative before publication, but it first mentions it only after building a supposedly damning narrative for 11 paragraphs.
None of this quite captures the essential dishonesty of such journalistic smears. Nor does it give a proper whiff of the critics’ piquant pettifogging as they unconvincingly imply that a justice might change his interpretations of the law in gratitude for a few pissant recreations.wrote about Alito’s travel on the Singer jet. The story proclaims: “If the justice chartered the plane himself, the cost could have exceeded $100,000 one way.
To which the reply should be, “So what?” Does the price tag mean Alito received the equivalent of such a sum? No, it doesn’t. Was the seat worth $100,00 to him? Obviously not, for it is inconceivable that he would have hired a private jet to take him to Alaska had the vacant one not been offered. He also understood that the seat would have remained empty had he not accepted it. An empty seat, as any airline will tell you, is worth nothing.
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