Fact-checkers should investigate the murder of Ashli Babbitt
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January 12, 2021
On top of liberal media bias that has become outright dishonest journalism and propaganda, so-called fact checkers on the right have emerged, attacking other conservatives. A so-called fact checker with The Dispatch is Alec Dent, a graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC Chapel Hill who is apparently pictured above his name on the site in front of what appear to be bottles of hard liquor.
He claims there were no credible accounts of left-wing Antifa agitators having infiltrated the pro-Trump rally on January 6 in Washington, D.C. One story alleging that facial recognition software identified Antifa members among rioters who stormed the Capitol was retracted. But there are other credible accounts.
I would have preferred here to focus on the outcome of the Senate runoffs in Georgia and the Democrats’ takeover of the chamber, but Wednesday’s events make that impossible.
Like a lot of other people in or deeply involved in American politics, Wednesday was one of the most distressing and disturbing days of my life. I felt nauseous, then appalled, then outraged. But my final emotion was a sense of sorrow for what we all had witnessed.
In early June, after George Floyd gasped his last breath under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, I watched the local live television coverage of what had been thousands of people, including families, peacefully marching through downtown Washington. But after nightfall, once the peaceful demonstrators left, they were replaced by vandals and arsonists bent on destruction, on streets that I had grown so familiar with since moving to Washington in September 1972 to go to college. Those streets now looked like a war zone.
The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr.
Over the last year, much of the political rancor involving the US-Israel relationship was focused on the presidential race. Yet historiographical evidence reveals that Congress plays an extremely important role in the US-Israel relationship.
In 1981, an intense lobbying effort on the part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) helped convince the Reagan administration to abandon an $8.5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia that included five Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) planes. As a result, the House voted to block the sale by a vote of 301-111, and while the Senate eventually approved the transaction, their approval only came after increased assurances on the part of the Reagan administration that Israel’s security would not be compromised.
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