A Liberal Gambit (Lie)

At the present time there is no doubt that the Washington Post made “a mistake” by misquoting what the President Trump said on a phone call with a Chief investigator in Georgia’s Secretary of State Office, Frances Watson back in December, 2020. As you might recall at that time President Trump was questioning the vote counts in multiple states.(Also recall that millions of Americans were similarly questioning the same thing . . . and many still are.)

Could this type of questioning be detrimental for those on the left? . . . Possible?

Could their thinking have been along the lines of . . . “perhaps the best defense against such questioning would be a good offense.” . . . Possible?

As we all know the Washington Post is a widely read nationally syndicated newspaper. Could the thinking by someone back then have been something like this? . . .  Maybe the best way to distract the nation away from any further such questioning of some election results would be to go after President Trump by besmirching his reputation. Perhaps a quote from a telephone call would tilt opinion against the President.

But there was no such quote. Could it be that someone then suggested an anonymous source for such a quote? Hmmm! . . . Possible?

Conveniently after reporting that Trump was trying to twist arms in Georgia by stating, “find the fraud,” the audio of that phone mysteriously disappeared. Hmmm!

Could it be that there actually was a recording, and that recording was purposely “misplaced?” . . . Possible?

But then . . .a miracle!

The audio of the approximately 6-minute call between Trump and Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, was published by The Wall Street Journal on March 11 and shows Trump never told anyone on the call to “find the fraud,” as was reported by WaPo back in December. 

Oops! Double oops, WaPo! Now a retraction of sorts.

Wapo’s response to this latest miraculous recording resurrection:

“The recording revealed that the Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source,” it said. “Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud,’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so.

“Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find ‘dishonesty’ there. He also told her that she had ‘the most important job in the country right now.'”

Hmmm!

Now there are a couple of big problems with WaPo saying “Mea Culpa” , now in mid March, 2021.

First: Someone “misreported” (“lied” is perhaps a more accurate word) at a time when it was important for liberals to throw water on that potential spark which was questioning the veracity of some of these vote tallies.

Second: Could it be that WaPo knew that this anonymous source, if there actually was one, was lying? It does not appear that WaPo confirmed this anonymous source – which would have been what an honest newspaper would have done. Since there was no independent confirmation, could it be that someone figured that “dishonesty was the best policy?” . . . as long as there was no recording of what was actually said on the phone who could say different? . . . Possible?

Third: While WaPo issued a retraction of its syndicated story, I did not see that retraction in my local newspaper. Could it be that this retraction was not syndicated? Furthermore, could it be that those newspapers further down on the syndication chain were told not to carry that retraction in their local paper? . . . Possible? On the other hand, could my local liberal newspaper have made its own decision to not report that retraction story to its readers? Possible?

Fourth: . . . It gets worse! These same erroneous “quotes” were also reported by . . . brace yourselves . . . NBC News, ABC News, USA Today, PBS News Hour, and CNN, many of whom supposedly “confirmed” these “quotes” through their own anonymous sources. Hmmm! Nothing like one anonymous source confirming another anonymous source about some “fake news!”

One would hope that perhaps some good could come from this skullduggery. (again, another word for “purposely lying”) Could it be that a lot of those recently converted to “anti-Trumpism” (“he has tarnished his reputation forever by his post-election antics”) would learn not to believe a lot of B.S. promulgated by the liberal Main Stream Media? . . . Possible, but unlikely!