This trove has other stuff in it about meetings, research, strategizing. It also has this, which was also in that batch some unknown person provided to me last week: https://t.co/yb8S5U0DmF /2 pic.twitter.com/wAa0G99fBu
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 13, 2018
That article described the most important available evidence up high, while putting less compelling stuff much lower down, and noted that the Dems were saying there was more that was still hidden /4 pic.twitter.com/dCxQt4UZe1
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 13, 2018
Specifically, to make the case that BK was only a minor player, he portrayed the evidence as consisting of the more minor stuff low in the article, ignoring the more important stuff up high as well as the claim that there was more evidence that was still hidden. /6 pic.twitter.com/8zSRaRb6bm
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 13, 2018
So that became the narrative meme on the right. I doubt very many of the bottom-feeding aggregators and Twitter commentators clicked through and even knew they were being misled. /8
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 13, 2018
That was a good idea & added a material fact to the discussion that I had not thought to seek, and I told my readers about it here. I wish French had stuck to that as a way of rebutting what the Dems were saying in August, rather than also setting the distortion in motion. /end pic.twitter.com/bhsjTNqVzX
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 13, 2018