‘The Poisonous Spread of Antisemitic Conspiracy’ and ‘When the Government Threatens a Joke’ (Editorials, Oct. 2)
Your Oct. 2 editorials are quite disappointing with regard not only to accuracy but also with their omissions.
Your disquietude over the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel is unwarranted and gratuitous. Anyone who listened to Jimmy Kimmel that infamous night heard him misinform his audience over the murder of a political leader that was a statement of fact and not a joke, which was clearly meant to imply that MAGA advocates were responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
As for focusing on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens relative to anticonspiracy theories, whether or not you are correct, they are far-right zealots and far out of mainstream of conservative and Republican thought. However, you clearly omitted the fact that over the past decade, the left wing of the Democratic Party and its adherents have been far more forward with antisemitic conspiracies. These include several prominent Democrats in Congress, college administrators who have been indifferent to Jewish students being harassed on their campuses and liberals marching in the streets against the Jewish state.
Ira Reese, Olney
