False Memory (Not Even Hard-Nosed, Fact-Focused General John Kelly Is Immune)

Alan: The following commentary by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is superb, reaching into the deeply-rooted racism of John Kelly's Boston upbringing as can only be done by another Irish Catholic Bostonian

Many thanks to friend F for alerting me to O'Donnell's commentary.

VIDEO: Lawrence O'Donnell's Critique Of John Kelly's Slanderous Treatment Of Rep. Frederica Wilson

https://www.thewrap.com/msnbc-lawrence-o-donnell-john-kelly-congresswoman-frederica-wilson-video/

In His Criticism Of Frederica Wilson, Chief-Of-Staff John Kelly "Gets Facts Flat-Out Wrong"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/in-his-criticism-of-frederica-wilson.html

Pulitizer-Prize-Winning PolitiFact Judges John Kelly's Comments About Frederica Wilson "Completely False"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/politifact-judges-john-kellys-comments.html

White House Stands By John Kelly After Video Contradicts His Recollection Of Frederica Wilson
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/white-house-stands-by-john-kelly-after.html

Alan: Pondering John Kelly's completely "false memory" of Frederica Wilson's comments at the now famous CIA building dedication in 2015, a false-memory-alternative-fact that will sully the general's record forever, it is remarkable that there is nearly no reflection on the malleability and porosity of human memory. 

Eyewitness Memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory

False Memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory

Misinformation Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect

Trust Your Memory?

Maybe You Shouldn't

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/18/health/lifeswork-loftus-memory-malleability/index.html

Although truth is always elusive, the United States (already in process of surrendering global hegemony to China while the citizens becomes ever more involved with the minutiae of falsehood) cannot survive  -- as no nation can survive -- when "alternative facts," "fake news," "denial of truth," ubiquitous "conspiracy theories" and "whole cloth lies" get the upper hand. 

Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_Lyceum_address