Michelle Smith of AP Gets Chance to Defend Her Claims, and Flails

Behold Michelle Smith, noted reporter for the Associated Press, and one who has in a most dutiful manner amplified the "Big Lie" allegation (that claims of election fraud are baseless). I encountered her last summer in the ReAwaken America event in Rochester, New York, and she approached me for some questions. I had just left the stage, where I had (nearly extemporaneously) shifted the subject of my talk to Frederick Douglass, who in 1851 had given the best July 4 speech in American history, right there in Rochester. I still had in my hands two items I had carried on stage, the then-recent admission by DHS that the Dominion systems were super-porous and the Mesa County #3 forensic report (cf. "DHS Issues Report: Patrick Was Right Again. Again.") So with Michelle's knowledge I caused our interaction to be filmed as I entertained her questions, then politely asked about the "baseless" claims of her articles, asking her to square them with the recent DHS admissions. I had previously compared her publicly to a college sophomore, capable of boldly declaiming a position but incapable of defending, supporting, or even explaining it: after the ninteraction, I wondered if that comparison might be unfair to college sophomores.

Rather than inviting the reader to prejudge her any further, I would like to experiment with crowd-sourcing. I want you to watch this 5:36 interaction, and then in the comments below, you tell me what it is you think of Ms. Smith's intellect, manner, and "argument" (if one can even call it that). So I know whether it is just me and I am being a snob, or I am correct to feel exasperated.