Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Fire and Fantasy

Via Business Insider we learn that Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury is better titled Fire and Fantasy:

Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages. 
Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others. 
But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing's workings, in a process Wolff describes as "allowing the reader to judge" whether the sources' claims are true.
Who, what, where, when, why. We learned this covering sports for the Wesley College Whetstone. Why didn't Michael Wolff learn this?

Good reader, we have been investigating Michael Wolff and have pulled several quotes from the man. Frankly we can't be sure what is true and what is not. But we will include all the quotes below and let the reader judge.

-"I really like Vanilla. It's my favorite flavor."
-"Since I am a native of Patterson, NJ, I made a cameo in the Morgan Freeman film, Lean on Me."
-"I hope Isis wins."
-"Michael Bay is my favorite director."
- "I'm a Bronny, I like dressing up in My Little Pony costumes and going to Bronny conventions."
-"Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book. Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true."
Sort it out, folks.
Via Andrew Dermont
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