Posted on 07/06/2023 1:47:41 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
New York City Hall aides have claimed that Mayor Eric Adams carries around a photo of the late police officer Robert Venable that was created by employees using a printed Google image.
According to a New York Times report on Thursday, Adams has repeatedly told the story of his friend who was killed in the line of duty during media interviews and that he keeps his picture in his wallet. One person familiar with the request told the outlet that employees were instructed to create a photo of Officer Venable.
The person said employees printed a picture found on Google, printed it in black and white, and even spilled some coffee on it. Adams then showed the photo to the New York Times after they requested to see it. Two former City Hall aides told the outlet under conditions of anonymity that they were informed about the manipulated photo last year, shortly after it was created.
Spokesman for the mayor Fabien Levy told the Times that Adams had kept a photo of Officer Venable, but did not deny he showed a recreated photo of his friend at a recent police ceremony.
New York City Hall issued a press release in response to the Times inquiry. "It is disgusting that The New York Times has chosen to have Robert Venable’s friends and family relive the tragic murder of a loved one for nothing more than feeding its obsession with dissecting every single moment of Mayor Adams’ life as the paper continues its unsuccessful campaign to paint the mayor as a liar,” Levy said in the statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True?
... What was needed was a piece of pure fantasy. Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ready made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed. Today he should commemorate Comrade Ogilvy. It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence. ...The old joke was that 1984 (the above from page 31) was supposed to be a warning and not an instruction manual.
I wonder if Orwell had heard of Operation Mincemeat in the late 40s.
What brought that to mind?
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence. ...”
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