kearney hoggan

Huge kudos to Jay Bhattacharya for how calmly he dealt with this absolutely loathsome fake news operative. She really is one of the worst. First, when Islamist or other mass shooters leave behind extensive records explaining their motives, those records are immediately buried and we are told their motives will never be known. Yet here, where the shooter left no manifesto explaining his actions, we are confidently informed that he was motivated by “misinformation.” Second, as even the fake news operative acknowledges, the shooter had serious mental health problems. Yet somehow the blame is shifted away from the fact that he was severely mentally ill and onto “misinformation.” It is sickening to watch the narrative being twisted this way. You can see and hear how angry Dr Bhattacharya is at the lies and false narratives being pushed at him, but he never loses his composure. He simply keeps dismantling the premise, calmly and methodically, without allowing himself to be dragged into the grotesque framing she is trying to impose.