A letter titled, “Disinformation is running rampant,” was published in the Delaware State News (July 5). Authored by Beverly Monahan, it suggested that disinformation is only generated by Democrats and mentioned a few Democrats in specific. Because the letter was so one-sided, that letter looked like it was generating its own load of disinformation.
Here is just one example to prove my point.
In 2015, Peter Schweizer authored an anti-Hillary Clinton book (243 pages in my softcover copy) with the title, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.” It was a one-sided story that made Hillary look as bad as could be. I read the book cover to cover. It is important to mention, however, that Schweizer said, in many places, that everything Hillary did was legal!
In 2018, Schweizer authored another book titled, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends” (318 pages in my hardcover copy, and I read it all, too). It was actually more balanced. It bashed both Democrats (e.g., Joe Biden, Barack Obama) and Republicans (e.g., Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump)! In specific, Chapter 12 in the book is titled, “The Trump Princelings.” Right there, in 21 pages, was a load of dirt, slime, shenanigans and subterfuge all in only the Trump “club.” All the references and sources were separately listed in the pages at the end of the book. Wikipedia also has entries on Schweizer and his stories, and they shed even more light on the whole picture. Judging from titles of other books authored by Schweizer, I think he might just not like any politicians.
The world of politics and politicians — in both parties — is too often not about truth, fairness and justice but endless arguing, backbiting, the whole range of corruption, name-calling, conquest, subterfuge, the scorched earth and stealing the whole cookie jar. I have read biographical books on some historical figures; many are one-sided (bashing or embellishing), but many others tell comprehensive stories that tell us things that were kept out of the media. One example is the book, “The Dark Side of Camelot” by Seymour M. Hersh (1997). And just to complete the story, the world of private-sector capitalism and corporations has its own considerable load of serious “mischief” in its history (e.g., Enron).
Arthur E. Sowers
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