{"id":1259,"date":"2016-06-10T18:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:19:35","slug":"general-patton-and-yet-another-fake-historical-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/10\/general-patton-and-yet-another-fake-historical-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"General Patton and yet another fake historical quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13330952_1790759907836562_3017976614172398876_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1260 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13330952_1790759907836562_3017976614172398876_n-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"13330952_1790759907836562_3017976614172398876_n\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>TL;DR Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patton said &#8220;Liberal democrats are the lowest form of politicians&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/general-george-patton-liberal-democrats\/\">very, very unlikely he said that<\/a>. It appears to be a combination of a quote from Patton (the first sentence) and a modified quote from President Harry S Truman (second sentence) who made a similar comment <em>4 years after Patton died<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>This version of the poster (there are many versions) originates on a Facebook page titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Thetruthhasno\/photos\/a.1635681450011076.1073741829.1635671126678775\/1790759907836562\/?type=3&amp;theater\">The Truth has no agenda<\/a>&#8221; which is a\u00a0conservative page with an agenda.<\/li>\n<li>This propaganda item is in the generic meme of attributing fake quotes to historical figures, trying to use an appeal to authority or celebrity endorsement. We see this a lot &#8211; a whole lot &#8211; on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Text for Search Indexing<\/strong><br \/>\nPoliticians are the lowest form of life on earth.<br \/>\nLiberal Democrats are the lowest forms of politicians<br \/>\nGeoerge S. Patton<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Summary Patton said &#8220;Liberal democrats are the lowest form of politicians&#8221;. No, very, very unlikely he said that. It appears to be a combination of a quote from Patton (the first sentence) and a modified quote from President Harry S Truman (second sentence) who made a similar comment 4 years after Patton died. This version of the poster (there are many versions) originates on a Facebook page titled &#8220;The Truth has no agenda&#8221; which is a\u00a0conservative page with an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/10\/general-patton-and-yet-another-fake-historical-quote\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-authority","category-celebrity-endorsement","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}