When I was young, we kids would play with the following tongue-twister: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
Now, decades later, we’re led by a president who in a time of national crisis invents tall tales such as “the coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” and “we have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on coronavirus.” Dozens of similar doozies have been documented by masochistic scribes.
Such fabrications suggest a new tongue-twister for today’s youth: “How many tales can a tall-tale teller tell when a tall-tale teller tells tall tales?”
Tom Huckin, Salt Lake City
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