No — that’s his right, in a free America. [See his earlier misuse of our freedoms of expression — as to China “takeovers” in the archive image at right.]

And to be sure, I have no fond feelings for Xi — his Muslim extermination / re-education / concentration camps, his ruling elite party oligarchs getting luxury medical tourism visas to Macau, while many millions of Chinese children struggle with hunger in the interior…

But I do think when a rumor of a coup is debunked by our own intelligence community… John ought to at least run a correction.

[In fact, it is far more likely that he is in quarantine, either with a positive test in his inner circle, or COVID symptoms himself… that will be confirmed, when he re-emerges on or after September 28, given he was last seen in public on September 14.] Sheesh.

But Hinderaker won’t ever correct his… errors.

As I say… I don’t really care — but he is deeply personally irresponsible, with his readers.

Out.