ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage
ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, caught on a secret recording, recently attacked ProPublica for its reporting on Supreme Court ethics. The nonprofit investigative news outlet has spearheaded coverage of possible conflicts of interest among judges on the nation’s top court, including Justice Clare...
The whole "politically motivated" complaint is such a brazenly dishonest diversion that it just astonishes me that people use it, much less get away with it.
Alito told a filmmaker posing as a conservative activist that ProPublica “gets a lot of money” to dig up “any little thing they can find,” suggesting the reporting was politically motivated.
How does that even matter?
The simple fact of the matter is that, whatever their motivations might be, people either are or are not going to find evidence of corruption, and the one and only thing that determines that is whether or not such evidence exists.
Alito, were he so inclined, could've very easily have made it so that nobody, no matter how determined or for what reason, could've uncovered evidence of his corruption. All he had to do was not be corrupt.
If there was no corruption there could be no evidence of corruption, and then even the most sinister and underhanded attempt to make him look bad would fail.
On the other hand, if there is evidence there to be found, then the motivations of the people who uncover it are entirely irrelevant - the ONLY thing that matters is what they uncovered.
Seriously, how does the assertion that something like this is "politically motivated" even have the illusion of credence? How is it met with anything other than a blank look and a "So what?"
"No fair! They're politically motivated to (checks notes) fulfil their duty to inform the public about my political motivation too ... usher in a dark age for America."
For the record, the dark ages weren’t all that dark.
This is more like the Bronze Age collapse, only faster.
So basically upset that the press do their job??
IMO the main reason for the press to exist is to hold people in power accountable for their actions. It doesn't matter the lengths they go to to get the information or their motivation. There will always be press looking into politics on both sides of the spectrum and we as the public should be glad for it.
You should not excuse bad behaviour just because they are on your team. You should encourage the press to do their job as long as they don't go too far into harassment, distortion of the truth or digging up irrelevant personal details about someone that affect noone outside that someone.
I really like the line "democracy does in darkness" because it is so true. Political figures who dislike the press generally have something to hide.
More like he's upset that the press haven't found dirt on "the other guys". He can't comprehend that the Democrat-appointed justices just aren't as corrupt as he is.
Boy, that seems like the pot calling the kettle black....
One justice takes so many bribes that he might have legitimately forgotten about several of them. Another has been recorded expressing views that show that he thinks he's in some kind of holy war against his political opponents, which implies that he thinks his decision-making is somehow coming directly from God. Oh, and his wife is a "scream at your neighbors to own the libs" MegaKaren, and the rampant bribery justice's wife is an election-denying lunatic. On what planet is that not news?