In an apparent effort to obfuscate the radical left’s shameless attacks on Sen. Tim Scott — who thinks for himself and, like Nat Turner before him, has audaciously fled the progressives’ plantation of victimhood and cradle-to-grave dependency — the Washington Post today tried to make “Uncle Tim” the bad guy, writing that his speech for the GOP Wednesday night “suggested that liberals are using race as a political weapon.” As though that notion were somehow debatable. In any case, the original draft of the email below to Post congressional reporter Mike DeBonis asked, among other things, for an update on his story six weeks ago about a Democratic staffer’s questionable allegation of anti-Semitism within U.S. Capitol Police ranks.
Dear Mike,
Leaving aside the fact that your white-washing of the Stalinist left’s reaction to Tim Scott’s speech leaves till the ninth paragraph any mention of the disgraceful “Uncle Tim” epithet [“Sen. Tim Scott’s comments about liberals and race ignite a fiery debate,” A10, Apr. 30], it reminded me that you have yet to update readers on the U.S. Capitol Police investigation into alleged anti-Semitism within its ranks.
The Post never hesitates to report leftists’ indiscriminate charges of racism or anti-Semitism or other ‘isms and phobias that may fit a given day’s political circumstances. But then it almost never follows up after those charges fall apart.
More than six weeks ago Rep. Mondaire Jones‘ top staffer ran to The Post, not Capitol Police, with supposed “evidence” of anti-Semitism within police ranks. And with apparently little or no healthy skepticism, you both publicized his claims and took them to the police for him, thereby using the Post’s First Amendment rights to shield him from potential criminal charges for making a false police report.
Readers have been waiting ever since for an update on what you then said was an ongoing investigation into the staffer’s claims, namely that an on-duty officer may have been reading the anti-Semitic tract known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But without providing any closure on that explosive accusation you’ve moved on to report new accusations by so-called “liberals,” now tediously calling a respected and accomplished black man with whom they disagree a “racist.” (BTW, real liberals actually defend free speech and open, honest debate. It’s totalitarians who look to quash debate with ad hominem attacks against opposition speakers.)
So my questions to you and your editors are these: Shouldn’t you spend less time amplifying the left’s every new preposterous attack on good people and more time exposing such attacks for what they are? And when are you going to update readers on the Capitol Police anti-Semitism investigation?
If anti-Semitism has been uncovered within police ranks, readers want to know. Of course, if a sober investigation has concluded that the Jones staffer, Zach Fisch, used you and staged photos in an attention-seeking hoax at the reputational expense of the U.S. Capitol Police, readers want to know that, too. So, please, before you amplify any new leftist name-calling, please bring us some closure on this old one.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.