A New Wrinkle

‘Sallie told David who told Harry who told Joe that Sergie said’

It sounds like gossip flying around a sewing circle of old women but it wasn’t – it was a story about Donald Trump and the Russians told by a former MI6 agent in a ‘report’ that caught fire (on one website) then rolled through the media across the land.

Our hometown newspaper posted two articles about the MI6 agent’s ‘report’ then posted an op-ed saying there was not one proven fact in it but, nonetheless, the report’s conclusion was true.

Politics and tall tales are old stories that go hand in glove but there is a new wrinkle: Passion has vanquished discernment: Hardly a soul condemns a tall tale when it hurts someone he dislikes – instead he repeats it.

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A New Wrinkle

‘Sallie told David who told Harry who told Joe that Sergie said’

It sounds like gossip flying around a sewing circle of old women but it wasn’t – it was a story about Donald Trump and the Russians told by a former MI6 agent in a ‘report’ that caught fire (on one website) then rolled through the media across the land.

Our hometown newspaper posted two articles about the MI6 agent’s ‘report’ then posted an op-ed saying there was not one proven fact in it but, nonetheless, the report’s conclusion was true.

Politics and tall tales are old stories that go hand in glove but there is a new wrinkle: Passion has vanquished discernment: Hardly a soul condemns a tall tale when it hurts someone he dislikes – instead he repeats it.

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Carter Wrenn

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