By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--January 6, 2018
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Rollicking LOLs from the Peanut Gallery.
Blame it on "astroturfing" that in a world where 'Fake News' best describes much of the mainstream media, gossip now masquerades as truth in the book publishing world.
The spinner of tall tales needs no facts, only a fetid imagination and a willingness to go all the way into the gutter.
No matter how salacious, no matter how scintillating, no matter how astroturfed, fiction is fiction.
"In the book Wolff claims that the Fox News host was reportedly willing to give President Trump interview questions in advance. The author wrote that White House insiders said Hannity was open to providing the questions he planned to ask during an interview before it took place. According to the excerpt, Trump conducted an interview with Hannity in the fall after he expressed his willingness to supply the questions in advance, a claim the TV and radio personality denies. "I never provided questions ahead of time to President Trump and never said I was going to quit my longtime, successful TV and radio career to work for his administration," Hannity said in a statement provided to The Hill through a network spokesperson. "A person close to Hannity who spoke to The Hill on Thursday rhetorically questioned whether the staunch conservative, who is reportedly Fox's highest-paid host and also has hosted a nationally-syndicated radio program for decades, would give up his lucrative salaries and influence for a job that pays little. "Do you really think he would give up his high-paying salary where he has massive influence to work for the government which pays next to nothing?"
Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
"CNN's Alisyn Camerota offered a hearty warning to prospective readers of the book Thursday, which includes allegations and accounts of palace intrigue in the West Wing, saying it "isn't really journalism. We should mention that it sounds like Michael Wolff's modus operandi was to let the people he interviewed spin yarns," the 'New Day' co-host said, said regarding "Fire and Fury." "And then he didn't necessarily fact-check them [interviews]. He didn't necessarily need two sources," she continued. "This isn't really journalism. This is a very interesting read but in terms of the way he processed them [quotes], he admits in the author's note that he let people tell their own stories and he printed them," she concluded."Meanwhile, Wolff and Axelrod are about to find out that people don't believe in embellished prose anymore. They stopped believing in fairytales when a guy called Obama began fundamentally transforming America after being astroturfed as 'the messiah' back in 2008. Related: Beware ‘Astroturf Guy’ David Axelrod
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