It's not poorly written, it's a rhetorical use of irony. Like Mark Antony repeatedly asserting that Brutus and Cassius are "honorable men" as he describes how they brutally and unjustly murdered Caesar.
Irony is not sarcasm! There's nothing ironic about the way the article is written, especially as it's such an incendiary accusation to begin with - the very place one should not be using neither irony nor sarcasm. Such topics need to be treated with great gravity.
