Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Downing Street Memos

[Lori Price CLG]

Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Downing Street Memos --by Mary Titus
(satire)

Editorial Page, The Washington Post, 2005
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Post:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little journalist friends say there are no Downing Street Memos. Papa says, "If you see it in The Washington Post, it's so." Please tell me the truth, are there Downing Street Memos? -- Virginia O'Falon

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Not believe in Downing Street Memos! You might as well not believe in Greg Palast. You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the TVs on the eve of the State of the Union address to catch a lying President, but even if you did not see the boldface liar yabbing about WMDs, what would that prove? Nobody sees WMDs, but that is no sign that there are no Downing Street Memos. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor New York Times' men can see. Did you ever see protesters on the White House lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. 30 million or so. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the mainstream media world.

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Lori Price

[dweller]

1. great work!

:applause:


dp

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Thanks - I thought Mary did a nice job w. that satire, too! n/t

[dweller]

3. you should repost it in Editorials

dp