Peltola campaign blames grief for shoving a staffer; Times calls her 'one of us' three days later.

…(cont) Washington Examiner, the same day, writing up that Times report: the campaign says claims that she berated aides, used slurs, and shoved an employee reflect her "shouldering the enormous burden of grief."

The Hill, also that day: the campaign "rips" the Times account; former aides had told the Times about profane outbursts and displays of anger.

New York Times, September twenty-seventh: "She's One of Us."

That's the list. Four items. I'm stopping there, because the minute I start adding my own words to it, it stops being the list and starts being my opinion, and nobody's paying me for that.

Here's a number I keep coming back to: three. Three days, September twenty-fourth to September twenty-seventh, by the paper's own dates.

I drive a car that needs a fan belt and hasn't gotten one, past the same toll plaza most mornings, three lanes, and I keep a stack of receipts in the glovebox I can't throw out, because you never know when somebody's going to ask you to prove what you already told them. The belt squeals on cold mornings, and I still haven't fixed it, same as I haven't gotten around to a lot of things this year. That's not a complaint. That's just where I keep things.

Does the statement about grief — the shouldering, the enormous burden — go out on its own, ahead of the Times report, or does it go out the same day, answering it? The dates say the same day, answering it. I'm not telling you what that means. I'm telling you what day it is.

Does The Hill's own account, filed that same day, use the word grief anywhere in it? Go back and read it — it doesn't. It has the pushback, and it has the aides' own words for what they said happened: profane outbursts, displays of anger. Same event, same day, two papers, and only one of them reaches for grief. I don't know why. I'm not in that newsroom. I'm just telling you what ran where.

And does "she's one of us" run in the same newspaper, about the same person, in the same week as "angry outbursts and slurs"? It does. Three days apart. That's the number again — I said I'd only come back to it once, and here I am, so I apologize — but three days is three days, however I say it.

Excuse me — before you go, one more thing, and I'm sorry, I told you I was finished. The grief in that statement, the mother and the husband, both lost in twenty twenty-three, by the campaign's own account — is that named in the same statement that addresses the shoving, or a separate one? I only ask because that's the whole shape of this: the loss and the incident, filed side by side, the same way the report and the profile ended up filed three days apart. Three days.