[Peace-discuss] Another fake "quotation"

[Szoke, Ron]

Fact Check: Another Fake Maxine Waters Quote

  *   HOLMES LYBRAND <https://www.weeklystandard.com/author/holmes-lybrand>
  *   1 MIN READ

Weekly Standard online
November 13, 2018 at 2:52 PM

You've been bamboozled.
“What a peach” is how Bamboo Bob<https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB>—not to be confused with the New Jersey bamboo-focused landscape service of the same name<https://www.yelp.com/biz/bamboo-bob-whippany-23>—a self-described “conservative character that pushes the envelope...w/heavy sarcasm, satire & FREE SPEECH!” captioned a picture<https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157030373615288/?type=3&theater> of a tweet supposedly from California Rep. Maxine Waters on Facebook. (The layers are exhausting.)
“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.
Bamboo Bob
about a week ago<https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157030373615288/?type=3>
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What a peach....
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90<https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157030373615288/?type=3>

658<https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB%2Fphotos%2Fa.10150345576685288%2F10157030373615288%2F%3Ftype%3D3&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=post>


Obviously, dear reader, this is not a tweet from Waters, whose Twitter handle is @RepMaxineWaters<https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters>, not @MaxinePWaters. Additionally, for those paying attention, Waters’ middle initial is “M,” not “P.”


It’s unclear whether Mr. Bamboo Bob–again, not the bamboo installation and removal service<https://www.yelp.com/biz/bamboo-bob-whippany-23> with four stars and three reviews on Yelp—knew the tweet was from a fake account. His followers clearly did not.
“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.”
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 your sort of thing.

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>  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.

For other specimens, see Paul F. Boller, Jr. & John George, They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions  (Oxford U.P., 1989, 159 pp.)

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