Posted on 01/07/2018 7:47:00 PM PST by Kaslin
Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury has been questioned for its truthfulness, but as critics read through the salacious material in a supposed exposé tell-all on President Donald J. Trump's administration, it is apparent that Wolff gets basic facts wrong and has other editing errors.
One such example is his claim that Donald Trump did not know who Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was in 2015. But, as pointed out by Buzzfeed’s Henry Gomez, the author also gets the year that Boehner resigned incorrect as well.
So, not only does Trump not knowing Boehner ring false, Wolff also writes that Boehner was forced out as speaker four years earlier than he actually was. pic.twitter.com/CEgu9287Qx— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) January 8, 2018
Boehner actually became Speaker of the House in 2011 and resigned in 2015. It may be understandable if this was a simple editing oversight. But another sign that whoever edited this book did their job poorly is the fact that the word “public” is mistyped as "pubic" at least two times in the book. Those two instances are seen here, per a Google books search:
The fact that the book has so many other factual errors in addition to these simple editing mistakes makes one question how much scrutiny it was actually given by the publisher. But it should not surprise readers that there are incorrect "facts" in the book. In the Author's Note, Wolff writes that “looseness with the truth” is an “elemental thread of the book.” He also adds that in many instances, he “has settled on version of events I believe to be true.” Meaning, based purely on sources that he trusts without any evidence or other first hand witnesses, Wolff is saying many of these stories should be taken as fact because he believes them. Again, as shown here by a Google Books search:
Wolff never really distinguishes whether the anecdotes he presents are "version of events" that he thinks are real, or are actually true. That clearly did not matter to the editor and neither did the spelling mistakes. It should matter to the reader, but it probably will not. In truth, this book is simply fodder for bored liberals in Washington, DC who want to abdicate responsibility for blowing an election by reassuring themselves with some false hope that the real estate mogul - turned reality TV star - turned politician who drubbed Hillary Clinton in the electoral college will someday get impeached.
You'd think that an observant Muslim like 0bama wouldn't spit on the Koran or use it as toilet paper.
Who knew?
Has anyone found any “composite girl friends” yet?
#### Wolff!!!! #### obama!!! #### the msm!!!! #### the deep state!!!!
Burn em to the ground, every mother ####ing one of them!!!
Leave NOTHING STANDING!
We are in a WAR.
Whether one wants to admit it or not.
And a breath away from civil war.
They comfort themselves with the mistaken notion that this is the "proper" way of dealing with conflict; that responding in kind is "unseemly", "un-Presidential".
They don't like Trump's method of hitting the enemy back. They pine for the "good old days" of Bush/Rove, when the enemy was ignored.
Yeah, that tactic worked well...
It’s smart thinking.
We’d have to depend on any gangsters that brought their guns with them to church that day lol
Great picture! :)
And boy, what the heck was I drinking last night?
Kind of a harsh post on my part. But this is serious stuff.
Those cowards.
And now they have this #### wolff’s book to pound him with and the 24/7 msm attack.
Nothing short of TASS they are.
So in that way the elections are rigged.
i’ll be 50 this year. My nephews and nieces are worth dying for.
I never had children but i imagine the instinct to fight and possibly die for their kin is VERY STRONG in conservative parents
People, for the most part, are passive. People tend to go with the flow and obey authority. That was demonstrated clearly when, for example, Jewish people passively went to the concentration camps. But there are always some people in any population who will not be passive. So, to stick with the WWII examples, this is why the Polish ghetto held out.
We are, I believe, still in the early days of a massive push back against the Left. It is disorganized and unfocused, but it is unmistakable. It is what led to Trump's election. The Left senses it, which is the real reason they are using all their (old) tricks to try to bring him down. But they are miscalculating badly, because Trump is the effect, not the cause. If they succeed in bringing him down, that will just move more anti-Left people to fight back one way or another.
LOL perfect.
It’s a hit piece, the media should be ashamed that they are giving it any credibility.
Great analysis and all true.
I dont want to die but i’ll be damned if i’ll let this country fall into leftist fascists’ hands.
Americans are a different breed.
We conservatives and patriots HATE being told what to do.
And will fight that at any cost.
The book was reported all over the world as non fiction. This guy was a known fruitcake. Why on earth did Bannon let him the White House and give him his time?
Thanks Kaslin. The media needed two things -- one, a new sham pretext to smear the President, and two, something related to the President that they could bash instead, in order to shift away from their losing position of regurgitating DNC talking points. Note that the Wolff book has been hacked and put online as a PDF by the wikileaks people.
This is pretty funny. Gordon Liddy’s novel, “Out of Control” has a similar error on page 204 (hardcover, 1979 edition), except in reverse: using public instead in a descriptive passage.
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