On preposterous claims

I quote from your June 27 editorial “Our gray world”: “To listen to a preposterous claim suggests that it is worth listening to — in other words, it lends it credibility ... The only practical response to a claim like that, it seems to us, is to cut it off with the litany of evidence that repudiates it.”

It is unfortunate that the Daily Herald chose not to embrace this principle during three years of baseless claims against the previous president that his campaign had “colluded with Russia” to win the election. Nor did you invoke this principle against the preposterous and obviously concocted allegations leveled at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate hearings. And we are supposed to listen to you now?

How sad that selectively self-serving media organizations such as yourselves still do not get it — although millions of thinking people do.

Mark Sobie

Schaumburg