A Methodological Note

Essentially all quotes — whether of text or video excerpts or whatever — are literally “out of context.” If you’re going to try to imply that a quotation or excerpt is “out of context” in the sense of being misleading or unrepresentative, however, you actually have to explain why the quote is misleading; it’s not enough to say something is taken “out of context” as if that proves anything.

Admittedly, the underlying issue is so trivial it’s the kind of thing that Althouse would have written at least 10 posts about it if it involved the Clintons, but she who lives be religious identity politics will die by religious identity politics.