In fact, the Senate candidate’s suspect views and associations speak for themselves.
It was already too late to salvage the fact-checking industry’s reputation before the Washington Post produced an example of the genre so obtuse and manipulative that it should seal the whole enterprise’s fate. WaPo reporter Violet Jira’s contribution to her profession’s discredit is particularly brazen.
In what was clearly an effort to defang the allegations that have forced Abdul El-Sayed into a defensive crouch in the final weeks of the midterm campaign, Jira dismissed Mike Rogers’s claim that El-Sayed has “ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“El-Sayed has repeatedly denied any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and disavowed the organization,” she wrote. If ...
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