In a March 26 NewsBusters post, P.J. Gladnick mocks the Providence Journal for a story on Rhode Island state senator Joshua Miller directing an insult at someone, adding that “There was just no easy way to describe exactly what Miller was ‘apologizing’ for but staff reporter tried his best without being explicit.”
But Gladnick describes the target of the insult only as a “radio host,” then attacks Miller’s apology as insincere because “any apology chock full of excuses can’t really be sincere.” But at no point does Gladnick fully describe who the guy was that Miller insulted.
His name is Dan Bidondi (a nameee Gladnick left in a block quote but wouldn’t say otherwise), and he works for the Alex Jones conspiracy website Infowars.com. In the apology that Gladnick deemed insufficiently sincere, Miller noted that Bidondi was “interrupting legitimate members of the media who were attempting to conduct interviews” and had “antagonize[d] an elderly veteran.”
That wasn’t so hard. Why couldn’t Gladnick do it?