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“People should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag, and not get the teams wrong.”
— Sen. Amy Klobuchar to Sen. Eric Schmitt
John Adams reminded a jury after the Boston Massacre that “facts are stubborn things.”
You can ignore them. You can lie about them. You can spend years trying to rewrite them.
But they don’t go away.
Facts don’t bend, Adams warned, to “our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions” — though Eric Schmitt might prefer otherwise.
This is a U.S. senator who, tired of hearing about the attack on the Capitol, said “we ought to change the date of Groundhog Day to Jan. 6.”
During National Police Week.
Yesterday, Schmitt called Jack Smith a “dirtbag” after mixing up the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Of course, the facts that matter most have nothing to do with basketball.
Cops got the hell beaten out of them on Jan. 6. Our Capitol was desecrated. A president tried to overthrow an American election.
Schmitt may be tired of talking about those facts.
But the tide will go out, history will have its say, and Schmitt will be left exposed by his naked lies.
Facts are still stubborn things.
POLL OF THE DAY
Source: Quinnipiac University poll of 1,032 registered voters conducted Sept. 24-26; margin of error: +/-3.8%
WHAT THEY SAID
Jonathan Martin on Eric Schmitt
“It’s a great illustration of what Congress has come to: reaching for viral clips for 30 seconds on social media. It’s all geared toward trying to create a moment for themselves, not improving people’s lives or lowering costs. That’s the incentive culture now.”
Willie Geist on the economy
“Donald Trump is focused on building monuments to himself — the ballroom and all these other cartoonish displays of self-flattery and wealth. He believes the economy is going great. Well, it is going great if you’re on the patio at Mar-a-Lago. But for most Americans, it isn’t.”
Elisabeth Bumiller on artificial intelligence
“Anthropic is preparing for the biggest IPO on record and, at the same time, has pointed out that [AI] could potentially end humanity. People worry it’ll take an infrastructure failure — a water supply, electrical grid, or banking system outage — to wake people up. Let’s hope not.”
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