It is really important that this story doesn't get buried in the horrors of our usual news — Kavanaugh perjuries, the Indonesian tsunami, families still separated at the border, etc., etc.
The Washington Times, Sun Myung Moon's right-wing rag that has masqueraded as a newspaper since 1982, has been forced to retract a despicable "investigation" that promoted conspiracy theories about the murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. The paper has also apologized to the Rich family.
The retraction was the result of a lawsuit which the Riches brought and which they are still pursuing on multiple fronts. So while they've drawn blood in Moonieland, the fight goes on.
We cats are glad for this victory, but we are also disgusted. The right's cruelty knows no bounds — just check out what they're saying about Christine Blasey Ford — and nothing will ever compensate the Rich family for the additional grief they've suffered.
But here's an idea: Somebody on our side with money — like Tom Steyer, maybe? — should take out a full-page in the Times (and if the Times won’t take the ad, then maybe The Washington Examiner or even The Washington Post) to list, by name, every Republican elected official, political hack, and “commentator” or “reporter” who tweeted about/wrote about the Times's original Seth Rich “investigation.” And then run the entirety of the Times's apology underneath, demanding the same from every one of the cretins named.
We cats would love to see how long that list would be. And we HISS.
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