“If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, and behaves like a rat, it is overwhelmingly likely that it is a rat.”

Roger Kimball has some thoughts about the way the New York Times is covering the role of Ray Epps in the events of January 5 and 6.

Feuer’s embarrassing piece in the Times at first seemed inexplicable. Why would the Times seek to exonerate, or at least to drum up sympathy for, someone who was caught on video urging the crowd to break into the Capitol? The whole thing seemed like a higher-order hermeneutical conundrum. Until, that is, one recognizes that Epps might just be a sort of double agent, an agent provocateur, laboring not on behalf of Trump’s supporters but his enemies. Then it all begins to make sense.

Read more here: https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/16/regime-propaganda-ray-epps-and-the-new-york-times/