03-17-2021, 12:41 PM
(03-17-2021, 12:39 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Your criticism is misguided and overly critical of the scope of what the Post did. Their source was the Dep Sec of State who was directly briefed by the person on the call and given those quotes. The quotes were in essence what he said but they were not direct quotes, making the Post's attribution of them as direct quotes to be incorrect. The Dep Sec of State repeated this to multiple outlets, the Post was just the first to break it.
The Post and other outlets were wrong to have direct quotes rather than describing it as the tone or paraphrasing, but this was also a side note on the larger issue of the call to Sec of State Raffensperger, which was recorded and was the "smoking gun" if you will. You suggested that the investigator call caused reactions here and fueled the impeachment charges, but this call was not actually discussed here. The Raffensperger call was.
Either your made an error or you embellished, either of which undercuts the point you're trying to make about integrity.
Yeah, Bel already pointed this out and I responded above.
