Dear Editor:
In his column two weeks ago, Moshe Hill offered a novel defense of prominent Republicans, such as Gov. DeSantis, who failed to condemn former President Trump’s meeting with anti-Semites, arguing that they were just avoiding follow-up questions from the media. And then, last week, he defended Marjorie Taylor Greene’s much criticized comments about January 6 by saying they needed to be understood as a joke in the face of media criticism of her. I understand that Mr. Hill views the “mainstream” media as a boogeyman (and maybe, as a hyper-partisan member of the conservative media, he has a unique insight into that), but continually using them as a convenient excuse for all types of questionable behavior seems like a copout.