The Fraudulence of a Big-Name Blogger: Case Study

By AOF

The hotshot is Andrew Sullivan, currently a blogger at New York magazine.

Here's the article: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/andrew-sullivan-we-cant-go-on-like-this-much-longer.html  Scroll to the "Not Her Year" section, which is about Stacey Abrams as possible running mate for ol' Brain Dead. It contains this:

The main problem is that she continues to claim that her loss in her only competitive election was a function of a rigged electoral process. This is a stance that could legitimize any complaints Trump might have if he loses narrowly in November. Abrams doesn't just claim that voter suppression was real (it was) and that she was therefore running with one hand tied behind her back (like most Democrats in the South, she was). She goes further: "I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot would've voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, 'I won.'"

I noticed that the link about voter suppression embedded in "(it was)" is for something at the NYT, and I thought, "These 'suppression' claims are ceaseless. What's actually in the article?"

So I read it ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/florida-georgia-scott-kemp.html

... carefully a couple of times. It doesn't actually say that there was or wasn't voter suppression. It just quotes Abrams's gubernatorial-campaign manager making a snarky claim -- "without evidence," as today's Associated Press would say.

(The Rick Scott and Brian Kemp campaigns [both Republicans] also made strident charges during the post-election strife -- the former making them "without providing any evidence," said the Times's reporters.  So there's its own case study ...)

So did Andrew Sullivan just skim the NYT article he cited? Or not read it at all?

The alternative is that he lied. I'm going with that.

AOF