Posted on 09/05/2018 6:07:11 PM PDT by Helicondelta
The New York Times’ scathing anti-Donald Trump op-ed, which the paper attributed to “a senior official in the Trump administration,” has inspired a parlor game among people trying to figure out the author’s name.
Some online commentators are leaning toward Vice President Mike Pence based on just one word in the piece.
The unidentified author singles out the late Arizona Sen. John McCain as “a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue.”
The word ― which Merriam-Webster defines as either “a star that leads or guides” or a person who “serves as an inspiration, model, or guide” ― isn’t that commonly used. But Pence apparently says it a lot, according to this mash-up posted on Twitter
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Not buying...more false news.
Not buying it.
good LORD, FR spreads more BS and Fake news than any other place on the internet.
you know it’s not a requirement to post every anti Trump, batshit crazy article , that you come across. Y’all know this, right?
Pence ... special to the NY Times ... right.
I wonder who the editor was who worked with the source. Sarah Jeong, anyone?
Thus a good way to deflect suspicion on someone else (VP Pence) rather than the culprit.
The only way to get to bottom of this is to waterboard the NYT Editorial Staff.
Waterboard! Waterboard!
Thus a good way to deflect suspicion on someone else (VP Pence) rather than the culprit.
The only way to get to bottom of this is to waterboard the NYT Editorial Staff.
Waterboard! Waterboard!
Not buying it, either.
Fake News.
Anonymous source = fake lying news.
the coup coverup attacks are so transparent : Ambush from as many multiple fronts as possible , all at once. Overwhelm and destroy .
How do you break an ambush? You attack into the heart of it .
Remove Sessions , Rosenstein , Mueller , et all .
Indict and prosecute Clinton , Obama , et all .
No quarter
MSN and it’s assorted allies pushing hard with fake news to sow discord and divisions before the election. Predictable. Pass.
/sarcasm off/
Now, if I was trying to set someone up, I'd slip their "go-to" words into my anonymous screed.
A man who does not ever allow himself to be alone with a woman other than his wife does not have the type of character that would write an anonymous op-ed dissing his chief.
I have no doubt that the journalist or deepstater who created this fictional op-ed studied VP Pence’s speech and writing in order to create this speculation and no doubt had a hand in putting the story out there.
This is just another hit job, trying to undermine both the president and the vp.
If a real person, then its use was to distract from the real idiot who wrote it
They are now beyond desperation
Just have General Kelly bring in some of his old school jarheads and start busting stuff up...then start the interrogations.
Someone used the word to try to cause a rift between Trump and Pence. Pence has far too much character to do something like this.
It’s common in DC to use distinct verbiages when acting as a source in the hope that people think it was someone else who leaked. Trump is wrong, DC is a septic tank, not a swamp.
or maybe the word was purposely planted to specifically frame Pence...
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