Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"

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On 10/22/2016 04:14 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
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> On 10/22/2016 05:04 PM, jim bell wrote:
>> Inline Comments: *From:* John Newman <jnn at synfin.org>
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>>> And Trump is a bastion of truth :)
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>> 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.)
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> 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.


This is how I understand it as well.

Along similar lines, but different, the pull-down of the statue of
Saddam in Firdoz Square Iraq was made possible by Rendon Group PR a few
US military vehicles, and the 'crowd' was an almost empty square when
the camera panned back.
Rr


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> 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.
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