The Moving Finger writes: and having writ,Moves on: nor all they Piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a word of it.....(Fitzgerald translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Public figures who make speeches and are on talk shows seem to forget that they are archived and, with very few keystrokes, all they have ever said is there for all to see. It is made worse when they deny having said things, only to have all the video played over and over with proof that they are lying.
Just as one has to be one's own physician along with the person with the M.D. after the name to really be conscientious about one's future health, so we should all check facts to as great an extent as is available to us. One place to start is here. FactCheck.org is a must for people who do not want to be gullible though a lying press and media and don't mind doing a bit of homework on their own.
I have not done an exhaustive search to find some of these places for this blog, though there are probably many. Perhaps anyone reading this may have some ideas. Please them as comments.
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