The story is that the hair of the never-Trumpers at the New York Times, WaPo and CNN was set on fire by the meme, supposed tweeted by Still-President Trump, and went into a frenzy of fact-checking to portray Mr Trump as a liar and braggart yada yada yada. I don't want to reprint the whole article, but have to share this excerpt.
"Looks like we've got a live one, boys," said one editor [of the Times]. "Err--I mean, non-gender-conforming persons. Let's fact-check this puppy." An army of fact-checkers then got to work, running the image through advanced fact-checking software.... Sure enough, many of the pixels seemed not to line up quite right, plus fact-checkers discovered that several elements of the image were entirely fictional.
"The presence of a Cylon Basestar in the image casts doubt on its authenticity right away," said Bart Tucker, head fact-checker at the Washington Post. "We were also able to trace the image of the sandworm to the cover of Avalon Hill's 1979 board game Dune, so we can discredit that element of the space battle in any case."
Further historical research suggested that nearly every element of the picture was fake, from TIE fighters and the Death Star to the looming Borg Cube. "This president is trying to mislead the people with this meme," said a CNN spokesperson. "We are only OK with politicians who mislead people with regards to the effects of their healthcare policies or their Native American heritage, not presidents who tell jokes and have fun."
Thanks sooo much to the folks at the Bee for brightening our Blue Monday and setting the proper tone of skepticism for this week's lamestream media reports on the impeachment witchhunt.
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