Silence is Darkness When Light is Needed Most

 

I don't have any confusion that I am, at best, an editorialist--an opinion-writer, providing somewhat informed comment on the basis of well-reported investigative journalism (other people's). I'm also not under any illusions about what even the endorsement of an august paper of record like The Washington Post means to someone who in late October is still undecided--who knows what sources of information that person seeks out? 

But the decision not to endorse comes down to editorial credibility, and whether the paper (a quaint linguistic atavism for a journal now so-often received in digital form) can speak truth to power. In the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein--do you speak truth to power?

In the spirit of Vladimir Kara-Murza, do you speak truth to power? 

In the spirit of Jamaal Khashoggi, do you speak truth to power? 

Trump Knew COVID-19 Was Bad and He Lied to Us

In new tapes, President Trump admits to Bob Woodward he concealed critical details he knew about the coronavirus. "I wanted to always play it down." https://t.co/eICaAx70mY pic.twitter.com/zXNOZtIBx7

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) September 9, 2020

And he's been patting himself on the back for the job he's done ever since. That rat bastard.

190,000 dead Americans. Because he wanted to manipulate the press.

UPDATE:

.@PressSec just now: "The president never downplayed the virus."

Trump to Woodward in March: "I wanted to always pay it down."

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 9, 2020

I disrespect Kayleigh McEnany somewhat (her tag on this blog is MAGANinny) but she's really in the position of a disaster PR person more than a press secretary. Of course he downplayed COVID-19 over and over again. He was doing it in big demonstrative ways in trying to reopen the economy and his thing about not liking it when people wear masks. He's pretty much doing right this minute. It's not so much that the press secretary is telling a lie, as that she is signing on to every lie Trump tells. And while I get that this position is a really high-profile one, I begin to have serious doubts about her integrity.