Do they Know the Difference between "Fact" & #PopularRumor at @matteroffacttv (with @SoledadOBrien)? Did They 'Verify their Facts' with #JeffFoxworthy @foxoutdoors & @SimonWhistler?
Because I'm possibly-offended at 'what they pass off as "facts";
I say 'possibly,' because 'facts' might not be 'what I think that word means'---I'll 'get into it' beneath the subscribe-bar ...
What I show first is 'the group of words' that give 'the word #Rumor" (hyperlinked to 'the offensive episode')' a place to connect to your vocabulary ... deeper sources that firm the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Rumor (& #Rumored #Rumoring #Rumors #Rumour #RumorMonger (i.e. #Rumorer) #RumorMill)” is built on ancient words that mean |Hoarse, to |Bellow (related to #Rumorous, which has very little to do with "Gossip").
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| The George Costanza Principle ... or is that "it's not you; it's me"? |
A recent episode of MATTER OF FACT with Soledad O'Brien featured one scholar who believes THE LIE that American Government is a racist system. I'm not saying 'the scholar is a liar' (see The 'George Costanza' Principle), but M.O.F. didn't mention the 'facts' that the system CAN'T be "racist"? that PEOPLE run the system---PEOPLE who can seem racist because of a minor case of 'prospagnosia' (face-blindness ... or rather 'face-ignorance')---people who aren't familiar enough with people of other races to recognize any differences between individuals of those races).
They (including Soledad herself?) might think they "balanced it off" with a story about a White, self-described Redneck Hillbilly who heads up an organization seeking equality (focusing on Blacks--as they gained prominence after the George Floyd-murder and other supposedly racism-inspired murders--but possibly also dealing with other races' inequalities).
But they just threw their story further out-of-balance---tossing on another 'alternative truth' with the woman's claim that 'Rednecks' were miners that wore red-neckerchiefs. (Yes, you can call 'a group of men in red neckerchiefs' "Rednecks"; but I hadn't heard that origin all the years I've been a fan of Jeff Foxworthy, America's Redneck-Definer!)
They might also 'excuse the non-facts' by reminding us that it (and a few episodes before it) was titled The MATTER OF FACT Listening Tour---that they weren't claiming their interviewees had "the facts," but rather that they were 'listening' to hear "whatever."
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