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There is a tasteful trending topic in Twitterland, #FriendsofHamas. If you have a life, and don’t follow all the news, you might have missed this. There is a story that a politician recieved an honorarium from a group called “Friends of Hamas”. The story was widely repeated. The fact that FOH does not exist is not a problem to many in Twitterland.
@ChuckCJohnson Naw, #Hagel’s just friends with the Jew-hating, suicide bombing Iranian regime.
‏@Rightwingpolok #FriendsofHamas: Hezbollah, Islam, Barry Obama, Chuck Hagel, Iran, N. Korea, Russia, China, Hillary, John Kerry, The entire Dem party.
‏@AlecMacGillis And here I was wasting a lot of time trying to figure out if my end-of-year donation to #FriendsofHamas was tax-deductible.
@Xultar I’ve dated all the #friendsofHamas
For a while, there was a promoted tweet, at the top of the heap, when you looked up Friends of Hamas. It is not there now, but you don’t want to miss out. Wendy’sVerified account ‏@Wendys Which taste from the Right Price Right Size Menu is the perfect sidekick for Dave’s Hot ‘N Juicy? pic.twitter.com/Y7XxO54x
Currently of top of the heap at #FriendsofHamas is ‘Friends of Hamas’: My role in the birth of a rumor. This is a confession from a writer who set the wheels of rumor and intrigue spinning.
This is featured at the New York Daily News, an intellectual organ. One of the “editors picks” leads to an uplifting story, New York mom charged with child endangerment after hiring strippers to perform lap dances at her 16-year-old son’s birthday party. Judy Viger, 33, faces up to a year in jail after the party, which had guests as young as 13. A 15-year-old’s mother saw photos of the lap dances by Tops in Bottoms strippers on Facebook and alerted South Glens Falls authorities.
In the Daily News story, it is repeatedly mentioned that FOH is not a real organization. The person who wrote the seminal piece about FOH is quoted: “Reached Tuesday, Shapiro acknowledged “Friends of Hamas” might not exist… his story used “very, very specific language” to avoid flatly claiming it did.”
The story of FOH brings to mind an old story about Lyndon Baines Johnson. “And his sense of the bizarre knows no bounds, as in this ‘ancient and honourable’ story of how Lyndon Johnson first got elected to Congress in 1948 when his opponent was a wealthy and politically favoured pig farmer: ‘Lyndon was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go… He was sunk in despair. He was desperate… he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty (just after lunch on a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children… His campaign manager was shocked. ‘We can’t say that, Lyndon,’ he said. ‘It’s not true.’ ‘Of course it’s not,’ Johnson barked at him, ‘but let’s make the bastard deny it.’
Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is written like Stephen King.