Special to the Daily News
While I applaud the PBDN's willingness to publish letters and opinion columns reflecting opposing views on controversial subjects, I believe that the line should be drawn when a letter writer embraces and makes demonstrably false statements.
I am referring to the guest column penned by Robert Davidow (Jan. 16, 2022), which is nothing more than the talking points by right-wing polemists and full of unfounded and discredited claims.
To wit:
Davidow writes that “the FBI ‘found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack … was the result of an organized plot …’” and “none has been charge [in the riot ]… with insurrection, for firearms violations.”
He does not cite the source claiming the FBI found scant evidence, yet the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was indicted last Thursday for inciting a seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol.
He claims that the Biden administration is in favor of “open borders and the unrestricted flow of illegal aliens, criminals and lethal drugs.” There is no reliable evidence that any of this is true other than the unfounded assertions of right wing TV and radio pundits. No Biden official has ever espoused open borders and the unrestricted flow of immigrants. In fact, my daughter has written recently in the Washington Post [columnist Catherine Rampell] that the opposite is true with respect to immigration, castigating the Biden administration for continuing some of Trump’s inhumane...
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