The Washington Post, or, as Tammy calls it, Jeff Bezos’ blog, must really be gunning for a Pulitzer with this hard-hitting investigative piece of, um, “reporting.”
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a letter from a Stockton, California boy named Dylan Harbin, whose nickname is “Pickle.”
Almost immediately, “Pickle Truthers” in the Trump-deranged media who couldn’t imagine that a 9 year-old could really have written such a letter embarked on an exhaustive boyhunt to verify Pickle’s existence.
Many clearly operated on the assumption that Pickle was a figment of Trump’s fevered imagination, and instigated a detailed forensic analysis of the letter….
…the Washington Post put reporter Monica Hess on the case:
Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real….
Pickle came to represent everything the nation feared and hoped for: Was the administration a “friend” to the American people? Was the administration trying to pull one over on us?
“The ‘kid’ who wrote the Pickle letter,” someone posted, as if they had uncovered a second set of Pentagon papers, “has the same name as the [Vice President Pence’s] cat.”….
Hesse consulted two “handwriting and children’s cognitive experts.” One “noted that the margins on the right side of the paper were very wide, which can indicate a feeling of concern about the future.”….
Or maybe nine-year-old “Pickle” just learned how to make a margin?
Heard of this on ol’ Jimmy Fallon’s show the other night, so I didn’t know if it was real or he was just making it up. The idea that a supposed actual news organization would spend time & resources RESEARCHING the reality of the child & his letter shows how they’ve completely jumped the shark AGAIN! Shocking that the WaPo continues to be taken seriously by anybody.