butter, it’s really rare that an editor would tell a letter writer what they are and aren’t going to publish in a letter to the editor. It’s also quite possible that she and others at her newspaper are too stupid to understand the concepts of ‘security checks’ and ‘legal standing.’
Also, I think you’re better off forgetting about the false statements act. No newspaper is going to be held accountable under that act. Newspapers occasionally get into trouble for libel, but that’s about it.
Apparently I **AM** giving them too much credit for being even literate. The reporter who covers the legislature for them thought that every time the Supreme Court rejects an appeal for a challenge of Obama’s eligibility, the Supreme Court is saying that Obama is eligible and us stupid “birthers” are too stupid to accept their answer.
And since the Supreme Court doesn’t give their reason for refusing the appeal, folks like Ayotte and this reporter look at that and conclude that standing was never an issue for the case.
So these people really MAY have been confused over the “legal standing” comment and may have thought they were reporting accurately. They’re just woefully ignorant. Unfortunately they are so ignorant that they’re ignorant of how ignorant they are. lol. So they call people like you and me “kooks”.
And that passes for journalism. And you know, anybody can be confused or mixed up. Happens to me all the time. But the measure of a person is what they do with information that shows they have been mixed up. This reporter doesn’t want to hear about it; why should truth matter anyway?
This kind of stuff is what the vast majority of voters are relying on for their knowledge. These are the people that state legislators are afraid of getting on the bad side of. We are so screwed.
In the amount of time given to testify in a legislative hearing, how can any of us ever undo all that ignorance?