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BoscoX -> RE: Our President asked the DNI and NSA to deny collusion (5/23/2017 3:48:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
What if it's true?
"What if"
What will the actual facts be "if" it's true
You are relying on known partisans who have been busted pushing fake news, and who are now at least playing a game of 'telephone'
From Wikipedia:
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Chinese whispers—or telephone in the United States[1]—is an internationally popular game,[2] in which one person whispers a message to the ear of the next person through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Although the objective is to pass around the message without it becoming misheard and altered along the way, part of the enjoyment is that, regardless, this usually ends up happening. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly from that of the first player, usually with amusing or humorous effect. Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, the difficult-to-understand mechanism of whispering, and that some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line.
The game is often played by children as a party game or on the playground. It is often invoked as a metaphor for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies as rumours or gossip spread,[1] or, more generally, for the unreliability of human recollection or even oral traditions.
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