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| Apologies to Mr. Obama and Mr. Ryan |
March 10, 2016 by Steve Beckow
It’s always interesting and a time of high learning to find oneself in what looks like a scam.
We seldom know we’ve been scammed. Very few scammers own it. Events usually reveal it.
In the case in point, the scam was that President Obama was removed from office, replaced by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
A journalist friend emailed us almost immediately to detail the events that President Obama attended that day or had on his calendar, which had not been cancelled.
He also reported that Paul Ryan was in California attending the funeral of Nancy Reagan, uncharacteristic of a person newly installed as President in a setting that was unpredictably chaotic and dangerous.
(Many readers may not have seen the original article which we took down as soon as the flaws in it were pointed out.)
What happens when we’re scammed? I got to see. The first impulse is self-serving: to cover our butt.
The strategies then used are to plead ignorance, blame someone else, defend our record, justify our own journalistic practices, etc.
It’s always interesting and a time of high learning to find oneself in what looks like a scam.
We seldom know we’ve been scammed. Very few scammers own it. Events usually reveal it.
In the case in point, the scam was that President Obama was removed from office, replaced by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
A journalist friend emailed us almost immediately to detail the events that President Obama attended that day or had on his calendar, which had not been cancelled.
He also reported that Paul Ryan was in California attending the funeral of Nancy Reagan, uncharacteristic of a person newly installed as President in a setting that was unpredictably chaotic and dangerous.
(Many readers may not have seen the original article which we took down as soon as the flaws in it were pointed out.)
What happens when we’re scammed? I got to see. The first impulse is self-serving: to cover our butt.
The strategies then used are to plead ignorance, blame someone else, defend our record, justify our own journalistic practices, etc.









