Facebook: Erasing History

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If there was ever a historic photo, this was it. So Facebook censored it (“You never saw it, peasants!”)

When I was a boy, Americans used to make fun of the Soviet Union for blatantly telling lies about history and erasing historical episodes deemed unflattering to the Party.

Well, get a load of Facebook! You know that now-world-famous photo of Donald Trump raising his fist after an assassin almost killed him? Holy moly, Facebook censored it (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/30/facebook-censors-iconic-trump-image-as-altered-image-then-admits-error/).

Later–hmm, we wonder why–they admitted they’d made “a mistake.” Then they stopped censoring the picture which, probably, almost everybody in the world had seen.

“A mistake” is something like misplacing your car keys. It’s not pretending Something Really Big never happened. Nor is it historical amnesia.

I hope we’ve learned never to expect truth from Democrats.

My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 9 (‘Have the Bad Guys Won?’)

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Not so fast there, chuckles!

There’s a lot of doom, defeat, and despair out there! Even among prominent conservative commentators, there’s a sense of “We’re just a lot of grasshoppers compared to those giants on the Left, and they’re gonna stomp us.”

Have the Bad Guys Won?

Shake it off, my friends! It’s all an illusion: they want you to believe it. They’ve worked so hard to create it, half of ’em believe it themselves. They want you to think you’re the only one left who hasn’t hopped aboard the Transgender Express.

But we outnumber them colossally–and if we could only put those numbers to work! We’d blow these jidrools out of the water in a day and still have time for a snappy game of Mille Bornes.

We really do have to stop falling for the spin.