Friday Opinion
Read David Harsanyi, Gary Bauer, Marvin J. Folkertsma, John Sparks, Rich Lowry and more.
Best of Right Opinion
- David Harsanyi: Political Journalists Have Themselves to Blame for Sinking Credibility
- Gary Bauer: About That Insurance…
- Marvin J. Folkertsma: Tracking Progressivism’s Progress
- John Sparks: Freedom of Speech and Forced Union Payments: Janus v. AFSCME
- Rich Lowry: Can Only Trump Survive Trump?
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Opinion in Brief
David Harsanyi: “Four big scoops recently run by major news organizations … turned out to be completely wrong. Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and others reported that special counsel Robert Mueller’s office had subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s records from Deutsche Bank. Trump’s attorney says it hadn’t. ABC reported that candidate Trump had directed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials before the election. He didn’t (as far as we know). The New York Times ran a story claiming that K.T. McFarland, a former member of the Trump transition team, had acknowledged collusion. She hadn’t. Then, CNN topped off the week by falsely reporting that the Trump campaign had been offered access to hacked Democratic National Committee emails before they were published. It wasn’t. … If we are to accept the special pleadings of journalists, we have to believe these were all honest mistakes. They may be. But a person might then ask: Why is it that every one of the dozens of honest mistakes is prejudiced in the very same way? Why hasn’t there been a single major honest mistake that diminishes the Trump-Russia collusion story? Why is there never an honest mistake that indicts Democrats? Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.”