Of Snopes, Krauthammer and The Daily Jot

Of Snopes, Krauthammer and The Daily Jot - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

Interesting how the fake news cycles its way through the internet. I received an email from fact-checker Snopes yesterday saying, "There's an article going around that's being attributed to Charles Krauthammer (you can read it here), but a nearly verbatim copy of this text (minus the first and last paragraphs) appeared on your web site months prior to it being attributed to Krauthammer. Did you write this article for the Daily Jot on 13 February 2017?" I looked it up because Snopes, in my opinion, is not a trusted fact checker. In fact, I did publish a Daily Jot titled "The perilous times we live in." It talked about how the ex-president was gearing up Organizing for Action to oppose President Donald Trump's agenda from the shadows.

 

Somewhere along the line, someone picked up parts of the Daily Jot, repurposed it without attribution, and sent it out under Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer's byline. According to Snopes, the faux Krauthammer article appears in the Nesara News website archives for October 11 titled, "The Enemy Amongst Us!!" It has a screen shot of Krauthammer as a Fox News contributor on the O'Reilly show and is claiming the article appeared in the New York Post. At the bottom the site documents that "Olive Oyl" posted the article at 12:45 AM on Friday, October 13. The Nesara Republic Now Galactic News site claims to be "an Awareness Blog to consider the future of your world" having 3.5 million views per month.

 

The fabricated article excerpts from the original Daily Jot Paul Sperry's claim written in the New York Post that the ex-"president" is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the incoming administration through a network of leftist nonprofits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate OFA has 32,525 volunteers nationwide. The ex-"president" and his wife will oversee the operation from their foundation office near the White House. It also errantly places quotation marks around Sperry's comments. Sperry is a New York Post columnist, but Krauthammer is not.

 

Snopes says that the claim that the ex-"president" was forming a shadow government to undermine the Trump presidency "was based on little or no evidence." As I said in February when I wrote this original column, "the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 3:1-3, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be...without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good." Indeed, perilous times are ahead for us and our nation." I might add verse 13, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." This is an example of how people can fabricate news, who writes it, and weaponize it for their own agenda. 

 

 

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