One of the stranger recent announcements of the federal government was that it had created an Office of Misinformation. After considerable protest, it was proclaimed that – never mind! – the office had been disbanded. Or had it been?
If by definition their job is to misinform, can we really believe them when they tell us they do not exist anymore?
More fundamentally perhaps is why did they tell us about it in the first place? Isn’t it ultra-weird to look the world in the eye and say, “We are about to misinform you”? And, assuming such an office did/does exist, once we know of it, would we really be able to believe any pronouncements of the Administration? Wouldn’t everything be suspect? Come to think of it, if they were really doing their job, wouldn’t that make the original announcement of their existence bogus?
Excuse me, I have a headache.
— Ken Butera