In asking if Biden is responsible for Roe's fall, the Times misinforms the public

[Nevilledog]

https://www.editorialboard.com/in-asking-if-biden-is-responsible-for-roes-fall-the-times-misinforms-the-public/

I have to apologize in advance. I’m going to write about the Times again. What it did is too important to overlook.

What did the Times do? One of the questions in that recent Times poll I was telling you about, the one about Donald Trump being ahead of Joe Biden in five swing states, was about abortion.

Specifically, the question was about who’s more responsible for the end of Roe and national abortion rights: Is it Donald Trump or Joe Biden?

It’s a trick question, and the pollster asking that trick question should have told the person on the phone just kidding just kidding – Biden had nothing to do with it! It was all Trump. It was he who appointed the justices who struck down Roe. Indeed, he’s taken responsibility for it.

It’s not an open question. It’s not a debate. Who’s responsible is settled. Trump says he did it. Joe Biden says he did it. Anti-abortionists credit Trump. Abortion-rights defenders credit Trump. Everyone who’s participated in abortion discourse knows who did what to whom.

It may be the closest we’ll get to a national consensus on anything.

Yet the Times decided to wonder and the results are as expected.

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