Good on Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat for expressing outrage over the way our conservative media transforms right-wing lies into conventional wisdom, “Local facts no match for national fiction on $15 minimum-wage issue“:
Now that the conservative media’s bogus story about the minimum wage killing off Seattle restaurants has been thoroughly debunked, it’s tempting to say the truth won out. That this time, anyway, facts trumped misinformation.
I don’t think so.
But too bad he didn’t express similar outrage when it was his own paper doubling-down on its own thoroughly debunked “death tax” lies—lies that, absent the outrage from respectable journalists like Westneat, are now being read unchallenged into the congressional record.
To be clear, it was great to see Bethany truth needle the $15 lies in the pages of the Seattle Times. But when it comes to fabricating facts to fit their policy agenda, the paper’s editorial board remains as deserving of ridicule and outrage as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. So until it retracts its bogus McBride “family farm” editorial, the paper as an institution really has no moral authority to lambast the national conservative media for playing the same game it plays locally.
This from the guy who
fabricated the conceptoffered the informed conjecture that Hagopian was targeted by the police on MLK Day. Debunked rather clearly by video, but hey, it fit an agenda. At least for awhile.No link
@1 Earthshaking to be sure. I felt the tremors all the way down here in my rabbit hole.
I’m willing to support estate tax reform. I’ll go for abolishing the estate tax if the basis step-up that heirs get is also abolished and inheritances are taxed as ordinary income of the heirs.