Wednesday, January 3, 2018

WaPo Steps Up

There’s a new book out - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House - by Michael Wolff who claims to have the dirt on the Trump folks. Believe it or not, Aaron Blake of The Washington Post debunks Wolff, pointing out several factual errors. As Blake puts it:
Almost every word of it is unbelievable. Some of it, literally so.
For whatever reason, Wolff seems to have arrived at a stunning amount of incredible conclusions that hundreds of dogged reporters from major newspapers haven't. (snip) It's worth evaluating each claim individually and not just taking every salacious thing said about the White House as gospel.
An indifference to the truth won’t keep Democrats from reading and quoting the book to each other, with giddy glee. That’s politics.