"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it"
Judi McLeod , Bio and Archives--May 28, 2019
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Former British MI6 Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele started a trend with his dirty dossier still going the media rounds to this very day.
The more salacious, the more outlandish the ‘News of the Day’, the more it will score big media play. Prime Example: the Golden Shower prostitutes performed on a Moscow bed—once slept in by sanctimonious Barack and Michelle Obama—kicked off an over two year special counsel Golden Goose Chase ‘investigation’ that came up empty after blowing 40 million tax dollars.“While a slew of media employees, including a CNN analyst and an NPR correspondent, shared the quote without checking its legitimacy, other reporters questioned it, including Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy. “Bremmer eventually admitted he’d made up the quote, saying it was “a comment on the state of media and the twitterverse today.” “Bremmer later deleted all of his explanations and stayed silent on the issue until Trump criticized him Monday morning. “Ian Bremmer now admits that he MADE UP ‘a completely ludicrous quote,’ attributing it to me. This is what’s going on in the age of Fake News,” the president wrote. “People think they can say anything and get away with it. Really, the libel laws should be changed to hold Fake News Media accountable!” he added. "Bremmer took to Twitter to respond, writing: “My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as President was meant in jest.”
“Upon being questioned on the quote, Bremmer had said that it was “plausible” and meant as commentary on “the state of media and the twitterverse today.”Did Bremmer know that his referring to the fictional Trump quote as “plausible” would cause it to be picked up and repeated by millions of Trump haters world wide, with a reminder they would only have to say, “I was just kidding” when caught up in blowback? Though they claim not to, the enemy are poring over each and every one of your Tweets, Mr. President looking for any way they can to smear you. A word from the wise goes all the way back to the early 1700s: Jonathan Swift wrote in The Examiner, Nov. 9, 1710: “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.” (Wikiquote) A truth not even the purveyors of Fake News can change.
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