“Roberts has several legitimate defenses. The first is that a few classless cracks in 38,000 pages of documents isn’t all that bad. Reporters who needed a story connected some dots and turned a handful of dumb comments into front-page headlines. These news stories tend to conflate flippant cracks with serious policy critiques, which isn’t entirely fair. ”
Dahlia Lithwick in that article you cite.
https://www.slate.com/id/2134287/
There was a link in her article to this article she wrote…so not only was there a “shortened quote” that misleads, it omitted the link she had to the article where she was critical of Senate Dems.
“Roberts has several legitimate defenses. The first is that a few classless cracks in 38,000 pages of documents isn’t all that bad. Reporters who needed a story connected some dots and turned a handful of dumb comments into front-page headlines. These news stories tend to conflate flippant cracks with serious policy critiques, which isn’t entirely fair. ”
Dahlia Lithwick in that article you cite.
https://www.slate.com/id/2134287/
There was a link in her article to this article she wrote…so not only was there a “shortened quote” that misleads, it omitted the link she had to the article where she was critical of Senate Dems.