I worry about the point at which our justified cynicism toward legacy media becomes numbness, because the saturation of this kind of editorial malpractice should never make it any less appalling. I don’t know, maybe we have long passed that point.

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By foregrounding the disavowal, it presents his response within the framework his political opponents have worked so hard to establish.

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Incredible headline. Look at what it does in a single sentence — strips a powerful and relevant exchange of its emotional & moral substance, makes the denial news, rather than the gross and growing prejudice that made that denial necessary, and continues the slow erosion of trust in journalism.

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A mere 99 on Metacritic

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El-Sayed is hitting at something so central to what’s happening today — that some religious sects, including apparently some members of the conservative Roberts Court majority — do not believe in separation of church and state.

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