Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
Steve Kinney
admin at pilobilus.net
Sat Oct 22 16:14:07 PDT 2016
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On 10/22/2016 05:04 PM, jim bell wrote:
> Inline Comments: *From:* John Newman <jnn at synfin.org>
>
>> And Trump is a bastion of truth :)
>
> A lot of the media feel the need to call Trump a "liar" when I
> don't think the label applies. For one example, about a year ago,
> Trump claimed that he had seen (on video) crowds of Muslims in New
> Jersey applauding and celebrating when the Twin Towers were
> attacked and fell in September 2001. This was called "a lie". But
> a "lie" is a deliberate falsehood. This statement, made in 2015,
> was about 14 years after the facts. People generally don't realize
> how unreliable human memory can be, including their own. (Mostly,
> I suspect, because there is usually nobody else challenging them on
> their memories. Few errors are corrected. The vast majority of
> errors remain uncorrected.)
I do remember the most likely basis for Trump's statement: FOX or
some other overtly Fascist outlet broadcast a video of Palestinians
dancing and celebrating, "because 911 attack." What really happened
was that a camera crew at some rally on an unrelated topic started
throwing candy to the kids and incited a "happy riot," and the
resulting video was picked up for propaganda purposes.
So Trump probably misremembered that as footage from New Jersey. Not
that I think this matters in the least, or detracts from the fact that
Donny mouthed off that inflammatory bullshit for the same reason he
always does: To provoke a hate/fear reaction in both his supporters
and detractors. That's what he does: Proves his importance by
pissing people off.
:o/
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