{"id":58647,"date":"2016-05-04T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58647"},"modified":"2017-05-13T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:01:45","slug":"fake-but-accurate-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58647","title":{"rendered":"Fake But Accurate-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whole Foods suing the hoaxer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2016\/04\/19\/whole-foods-were-suing-the-gay-activist-who-claimed-we-sold-him-a-cake-with-a-slur-written-on-it-and-we-have-video\/\"><span class=\"s2\">who lied about the cake<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was all a lie, just like &#8220;hands up don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; or &#8220;he was cuffed when they shot him.,&#8221;\u00a0 Why does the media believe it&#8217;s okay to substitute a desired result for objective truth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;m not talking about mindlessly parroting The Narrative on climate change, or gun control.\u00a0 We expect that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about breathlessly reporting gay-threatening rainbow nooses (turned out to be an art project to raise awareness of LGBT suicide) or campus rape hoaxes, like Mattress Girl.\u00a0\u00a0 Their attitude seems to be that the fact the incident did not occur doesn&#8217;t mean it might not have occurred.\u00a0 So falsely accusing someone of rape is simply a way to raise awareness of a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist, but could exist.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Same idea with forged documents claiming Bush not serving in the military &#8211; fake but accurate, per Dan Rather. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And now gay-slur cakes.\u00a0 Same idea.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 But could have.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s all good.\u00a0 The fact that an honest business had its reputation trashed doesn&#8217;t even cross their radar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liberals seem to believe an untruth told in furtherance of The Narrative is not a lie, it&#8217;s a Greater Good than the actual, verifiable truth, so you should be happy to be slandered.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I hope Whole Foods pounds this guy into the dust for spreading lies about their business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I expect an eventual, not-too-onerous settlement. \u00a0Fellow travelers and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Whole Foods suing the hoaxer\u00a0who lied about the cake. It was all a lie, just like &#8220;hands up don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; or &#8220;he was cuffed when they shot him.,&#8221;\u00a0 Why does the media believe it&#8217;s okay to substitute a desired result for objective truth? I&#8217;m not talking about mindlessly parroting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,349],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-58647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-bergs-20th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58652,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58647\/revisions\/58652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}