FICTION, POLITICS, and TRUTH = STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Monday, June 13, 2022
Complete fiction …
They made the whole thing up. Of course, they did; that’s what fiction writers do. It’s their craft, their art and their passion.
What happened, what did they know, and when did they know it? This, for me, is reminiscent of questions from Howard Baker in the Watergate hearings a long time ago …
Now, whether we are looking at news stories coming about why the ambulance took too long to arrive in Calgary, whether the emergency legislation enacted by the Trudeau government to stop protesters, or whether the riots on the Capitol in Washington last year – the questions are the same; what did they know, and when did they know it?
Sadly, most of their answers appear to be complete twisted-around facts resembling fiction, or half-truths, because they made them up …