Believe Every Word...
As I watched the news tonight, the reporter talked about how nasty the campaign for president has gotten. It seems as though some candidates will say anything to bolster their numbers in the polls. I’ve been reading articles in the New York Times and The Washington Post (a habit I acquired when I flew…passing the time by reading newspapers left behind by passengers) that check on the truthfulness of candidates’ statements. The scale seems to run from true, mostly true, somewhat false, false and finally to “pants on fire”.
I find it very frustrating to listen to these folks say whatever pops into their heads, true or not, if they think it will get them a larger following. I find it even more frustrating to see others share “pants on fire” candidate statements on Facebook and other social media without actually verifying the statement’s truthfulness. I am well aware that lots of folks think that “if you read it on Facebook, it must be true”! Really???
To think that we have ten more months of mud slinging, name calling, acting like a spoiled teenager behavior by our presidential candidates is just about enough to make a person go buy the latest issue of The National Enquirer and believe every single word in it…k
January 14, 2016