Letter: There's more to election woes than mainstream media shares
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In a Sept. 5 Times-Gazette story, “Election denial goes on tour in US,” AP writers Margery Beck and Christina Cassidy declared “no evidence has emerged to suggest widespread fraud or manipulation” regarding the 2020 presidential election.
Beck and Cassidy should read the July 16 article, “Bombshells undercut the ‘Big Lie:’ 21 confirmed illegalities, irregularities from the 2020 election” by investigative journalist and TV commentator John Solomon on his website, justthenews.com.
Solomon wrote “… with each passing day, new irregularities, security vulnerabilities and illegalities are being unmasked by bombshell revelations from courts, legislators and other investigative bodies like the FBI and Homeland Security Department.
"The latest came (recently) when the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared that state election regulators had no legal authority to allow voters to cast ballots in mobile drop boxes, a jaw-dropping decision that invalidated the way tens of thousands of voters — many of them Democrats — cast their ballots.
"From Phoenix to Detroit, and Madison to Austin, there are now nearly two dozen credible confirmations of problems that undercut the claims of bureaucrats, journalists and Democrats that the November 2020 general election was perfect. In fact, it was quite imperfect."
Beck and Cassidy also wrote 2020 election conspiracies have “real world consequences.” They provided examples of those consequences and quoted former Republican Kentucky secretary of state, Trey Grayson, who reportedly said, “There are a lot of really bad actors here that are trying to undermine confidence in a system. It is dangerous.”
Grayson made a good point about undermining. So, what about Hillary Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter, and other Democrats calling Donald Trump an “illegitimate” president? Wasn’t that dangerous? But it wasn’t mentioned in the AP article.
An April Rasmussen poll reportedly “found that most Democrats still believe the 2016 election was stolen” and “that Trump only won because of interference from Russia.” The Trump-Russia campaign collusion allegation turned out to be a hoax, but that wasn’t noted in the AP story either.
The incomplete kind of reporting done by Beck and Cassidy shows why so many conservatives distrust the mainstream media.
Jeff L. Reed, Ashland
This article originally appeared on Ashland Times Gazette: Letter: There's more to election woes than mainstream media shares
