Like a rabid dog gnawing on a bone, the New York Times will just not let go of the non-story involving Justice Samuel Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, and a 2021 dispute with a neighbor that allegedly culminated in Mrs. Alito “briefly” flying the American flag upside down 11 days after the Capitol riot.
Not even counting the guest essays, letters to the editor, opinion pieces, and Spanish language versions they’ve published on the issue, by my count they’ve published nine – count ’em – nine articles over the last two weeks related to flag-flying at the homes of the Alito family, from the upside down one at their primary residence in 2021 to the Revolutionary War-era “Appeal to Heaven” flag that was flown at various points in 2023 at their beach house.
The insinuations have been clear in all of them: In their view and that of their “experts,” due to the alleged Jan. 6th symbolism of the…
