We should have seen this coming. Less than two weeks after his 2016 warning that hoaxes would have higher production values from now on, Ben Smith decided to publish the unedited “Steele Dossier,” containing all sorts of sordid allegations against Donald Trump that Smith said his reporters could not confirm or disprove. The stories in the dossier were compiled by a British spook talking to Russian intelligence as part of opposition research for the Clinton campaign, and they formed the basis for treating the just-elected president as a suspected Manchurian Candidate controlled by Moscow. After a few years, an impeachment trial, and endless breathless updates on how the walls were closing in, we discovered the very thing any news-literate reader would have guessed at the time if the relevant journalistic investigations had been done: The dossier was filled with misinformation that Russian intelligence hoped to get the U.S. media to run with. The media that had warned against fake news willingly and happily propagated it. (from here)
You had brown eyes, but now they’re blue
Those false eyelashes that you’re wearin’ too
In bed this morning, you called me CIyde
Alex is the name that I go by!
If women could be counterfeit
Then you’d be it
You’re a fake, baby
You can’t conceal it
Know how I know?
‘Cause I can feel it
You’re a fake, baby
I’ve blown your cover
The iig is up
‘Cause I discovered
by: Alexander O’Neal