#interlocutors — Public Fediverse posts
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Today, Pete Stauber Learned How Quotation Marks Work
This is from today’s House Natural Resources hearing, where Representative Jared Huffman offered an amendment to Stauber’s HR 4090.
As both Huffman and Teresa Leger Fernandez suggest in the discussion that follows, this is not just a one-off. It’s an example of a much larger problem of bad faith in public discourse.
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Today, Pete Stauber Learned How Quotation Marks Work
This video clip is from today’s House Natural Resources hearing, where Representative Jared Huffman offered an amendment to Stauber’s HR 4090.
As both Huffman and Teresa Leger Fernandez suggest in the discussion that follows, this incident is not just a one-off. It’s an example of a much larger problem of bad faith in public discourse.
Update 26 September 2025: A version of the same problem crops up again in Lindsey Halligan’s dodgy indictment of James Comey. As Ken Dilanian observes, “the indictment appears to attribute to Comey words he never uttered,” and it uses quotation marks to do so. Halligan is in fact quoting a question put to Comey in 2020 by Ted Cruz, who is in turn quoting Chuck Grassley’s question to Comey in 2017. I can’t say whether this exonerates Comey or gets the indictment thrown out, as some are speculating it will, but I’m interested to see how the judge deals with the misattribution.
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