Mark Twain once noted that “It is far easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.”
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| Fake Photo? |
I recall my Mom telling a story about going to some party where a lady noted that she was surprised to learn that J. Edgar Hoover did not exist. Mom said that she too had read the Art Buchwald column earlier that day in the Washington Post that said Hoover did not exist. Mom tried to explain to the lady that Buchwald was not serious and what she had read was satire. Mom said that no matter how much she tried to convince the lady that it just wasn’t true, the lady doubled down and kept insisting that it had to be so because she had read it in the paper.
I found this account about the Buchwald/J. Edgar column.
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| https://www.cbsnews.com/news/art-buchwald-couldnt-make-this-man-laugh/ |
Buchwald was also responsible for another satirical column that today sounds eerily prophetic:
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| https://www.cbsnews.com/news/art-buchwald-couldnt-make-this-man-laugh/ |
This Who song came to mind. Hopefully, those CSI shows haven’t made you sick of hearing it.