Fakey News, Truthy Facts
You maybe know this already: we live in a post-truth world. This is great news for advertisers, politicians and pharmaceuticals. Not so great for parents, the IRS or most newspapers. I suppose we’ll get accustomed to this after awhile, but it may take me longer than I’d like to fully embrace this new paradigm. Buyer beware, citizens be afraid.
Gullibility, as is well known to the Nigerians who frequently ask me for funds so that they can secure a million dollars which they would be happy to share with me if I help them, exists in each of our greedy little hearts. We want to support our beliefs with facts … and if the facts are a tad suspect, well, facts are facts. Says so right here in black and white. A couple of days ago some character, acting on tweeted information that a pizza joint in D.C. was really a pederast ring run by Hillary, took up arms and decided to take things into his own hands.
I know, it’s baffling to me too how anyone with half a brain would believe this is true. But this guy took his half brain and an assault rifle down to the pizza parlor to stop that sex traffic mid-topping hold the cheese. Today I saw where Trump’s nominee for National Security Advisor, Gen. Flynn tweeted:
U decide – NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc…MUST READ! http://truepundit.com/breaking-bombshell-nypd-blows-whistle-on-new-hillary-emails-money-laundering-sex-crimes-with-children-child-exploitation-pay-to-play-perjury/ …
Mama Mia! What can you say? This is the dude who will, if confirmed, be in charge of the security of this country. I wouldn’t let the creep be a pizza deliveryman, but then, I’m not going to be in on the confirmation hearings, am I? The next president is the Uber-Liar-in-Chief, after all, so why not fill the cabinet with tweeters and know-nothings? We just need to change a few of the presidential myths, is all. George Washington didn’t fess up to chopping down the cherry tree. He just told his ma the neighbors cut it down for firewood. And, Mom, it was an English walnut, probably good to be rid of a Tory tree anyway. Can I have more dessert?
In the good old days, at some point in their speech a politician would throw out enormous quantities of what was termed “red meat’ to whip the audience into a frenzy. Steak, sirloin, porterhouse, all the best cuts, tenderized, and seasoned to perfection. But humans became bored with the same old, same old.
Then, speech writers and political researchers discovered a new main course to offer supporters, not really red meat per se, but with enough food coloring, maybe some real blood, and enough flavoring, they could give the people what they wanted, prepared just the way they like it, at a live event, on Facebook, heck even Twitter. With a little hocus pocus it could replace anything, and might just get the bad taste of Obama out of your mouth if you’re a conservative. And ruin the taste for Hillary before anyone has a chance to even try it.
It’s not fake meat, they’re told, it comes from a cow just like the rest of the stuff we’ve been feeding you! Don’t call it pink slime, that’s what liberals call it. This stuff is the real deal, and there’s lots more where it came from. Lot’s more!
Hungry?
Goes a long way toward explaining the choice of Carl’s Jr’s CEO to run the Labor Dep’t. Happy Meals are here again!