![]() But when she asked Ham how he knew that they existed and what they looked like, he responded by… feeding her conspiracy complex." There is no wink to be found anywhere in her earlier comments.) She didn't directly bring up denying their existence. Mehta observes, "Stuckey insisted she only 'jokingly talked about' not knowing what dinosaurs looked like in the past. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again?īut that is not how Stuckey's chat with Ham went down. She’d rather ask stupid questions than discuss smart answers." But her career is built on passing off ignorance as insight. Mehta adds, "Stuckey could've made sense of all this through basic Google searches or by asking a paleontologist. Yet even when scientists suggest we need to update our understanding of dinosaurs, Stuckey treats it as a giant game." Sure, some of our recreations involve filling in the blanks as best we can, but educated guesses aren’t the same as stabs in the dark. We know how muscular they were and where their eyes may have pointed. We have good ideas about what they looked like because their fossils sometimes include soft tissues that tell us, for example, if they were covered in feathers. Hemant Mehta notes in his Friendly Atheist newsletter, "Dinosaurs are real. "But she and Alvin Bragg, I think, did a really terrific job in laying out the facts and legal position and why it's completely inappropriate for Jim Jordan to be weaponizing a committee in congress to interfere with those prosecutions." "So yes, a lot of her language is colorful," added Weissman. They really go to town on all of the ways that Jordan's request here is not just improper but is really interfering with the criminal justice system." And the tone of the two letters is certainly different, but the strength of the case on substance, in terms of what Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis laid out, is identical. "One was in New York, where he sent the same kind of letter to Alvin Bragg, the D.A. "This is the second time, not the first, that Jim Jordan has tried to interfere with state criminal prosecutions brought by separate sovereign states," Weissman continued. Just remember, the person who sent it is in a party that traditionally believes in states' rights and that local crimes are left to the states to prosecute." POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? "As prosecutors' letters go, to chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee trying to interfere with their investigations, of which I believe there are very few in American history, that one was about as hot as it gets," said anchor Lawrence O'Donnell. ![]()
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