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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Fact Check: Another Fake Maxine Waters Quote</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">November 13, 2018 at 2:52 PM</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">You've been bamboozled.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“What a peach” is how <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);" class="">Bamboo Bob</span></a>—not to be confused with the New Jersey bamboo-focused landscape service of the
<a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/bamboo-bob-whippany-23" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);" class="">same name</span></a>—a self-described “conservative character that pushes
the envelope...w/heavy sarcasm, satire & FREE SPEECH!” captioned a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157030373615288/?type=3&theater" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);" class="">picture</span></a> of a tweet supposedly from California Rep. Maxine Waters on Facebook. (The layers are exhausting.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“That son of a bitch Trump just called me ‘Low IQ Maxine’?? Wants me to take an IQ test?? What kind of man tells an elderly woman of color she needs to pee in a cup to prove how smart she is? #INPEACH” the now-suspended
account @MaxinePWaters tweeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-shadow: 0.0px 0.9px 1.7px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)" class=""><b class="">Bamboo Bob</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-shadow: 0.0px 0.9px 1.7px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157030373615288/?type=3" class="">about a week ago<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(218, 221, 225); text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px 0.9px 1.7px;" class=""></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">What a peach....</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Obviously, dear reader, this is not a tweet from Waters, whose Twitter handle is
<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);" class="">@RepMaxineWaters</span></a>, not @MaxinePWaters. Additionally, for those paying attention,
Waters’ middle initial is “M,” not “P.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It’s unclear whether Mr. Bamboo Bob–again, not the bamboo
<a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/bamboo-bob-whippany-23" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);" class="">installation and removal service</span></a> with four stars and three reviews
on Yelp—knew the tweet was from a fake account. His followers clearly did not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Wow shes an idiot!” one apostrophe-anarchist commented. “I can tell by the way she acts and by what she says that her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top! LOL,” another posited. Others were more acerbic in asserting
their stupidity. “Retarded,” wrote one. “Idiot,” another contributed. “DUMB. AS. A. STUMP. The perfect democrat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Bamboo Bob’s Facebook account is filled with a good deal of MAGA-Boomer memes alongside images of women in bathing suits with captions unironically channeling the inner thoughts of the creepiest of uncles, if that’s
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">If you have questions about this fact check, or would like to submit a request for another fact check, email Holmes Lybrand at
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> Personal note: I once received a supposed “quotation” endorsing socialism, purportedly by Nancy Pelosi. It smelled so fishy I immediately posted an offer to send my personal check for $100 to the first person who
could prove to me that Pelosi ever said such a thing — with appropriate documentation, of course, including where & when she supposedly said it, to what audience, etc. There were no takers in response, only one grudging note saying she was terrible anyway. ~~ RSz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For other specimens, see Paul F. Boller, Jr. & John George,
<i class="">They Never Said It </i>: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (Oxford U.P., 1989, 159 pp.)</span></div>
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