Doris Truong: Trolls decided I was taking pictures of Rex Tillerson’s notes. I wasn’t even there.

WP ^ | 1/12/17 | Trong

[HokieMom]

What it's like to be at the center of a fake-news conspiracy theory.

[HokieMom]

here’s a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same. That joke became my own personal Pizzagate late Wednesday: I got caught in a terrible case of mistaken identity that was exacerbated by the speed at which false information spreads on social media.

[Fido969]

Holy moley.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So who was the woman we saw taking pictures?

[Kickass Conservative]

Looked like Margaret Cho to me.

[Sans-Culotte]

So, who was it?

[HokieMom]

[montag813]

I sensed this might happen after reading Gateway Pundit’s hyperventilating post late last night

[PGR88]

I guess no one bothered to ask her name.

[gaijin]

This is how you know pizzagate really is real.

they’re covering.

just wait.

[McGavin999]

Well, trolls need to apologize to her. If we are going to expect them to correct things when they are wrong then we have to admit when we are wrong

[gubamyster]

There’s a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same.

No Doris, you really don't look anything like all Asian women, for example, Michele Malkin. However, you do resemble the person taking the pictures of the notes.

Did the poster make a big & stupid mistake by not verifying the identity of the person? Yes. But let's not make this some racial thing.

[LS]

Well, a good journalist might then follow up and ask who WAS taking pictures. And Truong would sort of insist on it.

[mrsmith]

The media ‘would’ tell us who it was- but they’re busy trying to buy the pictures right now.

[gaijin]

You Can Tell She’s delighted at the mistaken identity because it provides her a case in which to make the pizzagate covering crack.

see that’s how you know it’s real.

And pizzagate was also why they were so eager for Pissgate material, eager enough to accept pure BS.

[IVAXMAN]

Look closely there were 4 people there together, they all saw her taking pictures. It looked planned. Somebody needs to investigate

[lee martell]

Sorry about that, Ms T. So then who’s that lady?

[jjsheridan5]

Maybe. And Gateway Pundit does seem to hyperventilate a lot.

But my question is this: on what planet, and using what dictionary, does a simple case of mistaken identity qualify as a “conspiracy”? Do these idiots have any idea what the words they use actually mean? If she is to be taken to the woodshed, it shouldn’t be for her misplaced use of the racism card (not *every* case of mistaken identity is the result of evil white people not being able to differentiate non-white people), but rather her grotesque misuse of the English language.

Also, since we are covering her clear idiocy, she may want to learn what the word “troll” really means, when it comes to the internet. It refers to a person who makes a provocative statement on a message board, in order to watch the ensuing hyperventilation. It does not refer to a bunch of people witnessing a case of journalistic malpractice, and not being able to identify the culprit.

[Cobra64]

Who can prove anyone was taking pictures? If she were, poor camera angle and distance.

[TexasGator]

Her response:

“But even if people believed that the person at the hearing wasn’t me, they wanted to know who she was. And that’s what’s particularly alarming about this time in our society: Why are people so quick to look for someone to condemn? And during the confusion about the woman’s identity, why is it presumed that she is a journalist? “

[Steve_Seattle]

"So who was the woman we saw taking pictures?"

It's not even clear she was taking pictures. At most, she might have gotten one picture of one page from about four or five feet away, at a significant angle, and the text might not even have been legible from that distance. She was only in a position to take any pictures for about three or four seconds.

I don't see what nefarious purpose this could have accomplished, unless the page that Tillerson left exposed contained a photo of him molesting a young boy or a personal memo from Putin congratulating him for all his help.