To twist words like that! Where would Europe be without America?
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Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole
... what's with all the "gotcha" questions?
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The new US ambassador to the Netherlands has been caught out on Dutch television after a journalist quizzed him about comments he had made about Islamic extremism in the country. Pete Hoekstra denied he had ever said there were "no-go zones" in the Netherlands, calling it "fake news".
Zwart: Speaking of threat, at one point you mentioned in a debate that there are no-go zones in the Netherlands and that cars and politicians are being set on fire.
Mr Hoekstra: I didn't say that. That is actually an incorrect statement. Yeah, we would call it fake news.
Zwart: Is that fake news? Because that's what you really said.
Mr Hoekstra: No, it's not what I said.
Mr Hoekstra (on archive video): The Islamic movement has now got to the point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned. And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.
Zwart: You called it fake news, obviously... (is interrupted)
Mr Hoekstra: I didn't call that fake news, I didn't use the words today.
Zwart: No?
Mr Hoekstra: No. I don't think I did.
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I was reminded of Titus Andronicus:
. . . . . ACT III scene 1 201ff
Tit. .. Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:
. . .Tell him it was a hand that warded him
. . .From thousand dangers; bid him bury it;
. . .More hath it merited; that let it have.
. . .As for my sons, say I account of them
. . .As jewels purchas’d at an easy price;
. . .And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.
Aar. I go, Andronicus; and for thy hand,
. . .Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.
. . .[Aside.] Their heads, I mean. O! how this villany
. . .Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it.
. . .Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace,
. . .Aaron will have his soul black like his face.
[Exit. Tit.]http://www.bartleby.com/70/3731.html