“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik, a member of House GOP leadership and a Donald Trump ally, said in an interview with “Meet the Press.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday wouldn’t commit to certifying the 2024 election results during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
While interviewing Stefanik, who serves in House Republican leadership, host Kristen Welker asked, “Would you vote to certify, and will you vote to certify, the results of the 2024 election no matter what they show?”
Stefanik, who has boosted former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, said that she did not vote to certify the 2020 results in the state of Pennsylvania and several other states because there were “unconstitutional acts circumventing the state legislature and unilaterally changing election law.”
Impartial is one thing, but being impartial while one side relies on outright lies is another thing.
To give an example, back when I was in college (the mid-90s), my college newspaper ran an article from a Holocaust denier. At the time, he was going across the country trying to get college newspapers to run his “the Holocaust never happened” piece and my college’s newspaper agreed to it. I confronted the editor-in-chief and he replied “we have to tell both sides of the story.”
Except there aren’t two sides of this story. There’s one. The Holocaust happened. That’s a historical fact. Trying to “be impartial” with this is to elevate wild conspiracy theories to the same position as historical facts.
This. If one person says it’s raining and another says it isn’t, a journalist’s job isn’t to report that “expert opinions vary on the state of the weather”, a journalist’s job is to go the fuck outside and figure out if it’s raining.
Impartial reporting of FACTS is not given equal time to facts and falsities.