In the course of a follow up to
an earlier post Father Andrew has discovered that the report about a wealthy banker leaving a 1% tip and an insulting message for his lunch waiter was a hoax. It appears that the image of the receipt was doctored and the whole thing was fabricated by person or persons unknown. Given the whole 1% vs the 99% class warfare theme however, it does not seem unreasonable to suspect this was a politically motivated lie. Point in fact I strongly suspect it was a clever piece of left wing propaganda. I had considered taking the original post down, but have decided against for three reasons. First, I intensely dislike removing posts from the blog and in fact have only done so once in the near six years of its existence. Secondly, no one specifically was defamed and finally because as it stands now it is cautionary warning about the tactics employed by the far left.
I have often been a sharp critic of right wing extremism on this blog. But it is well worth remembering that some in the radical left are not above making things up or just plain lying to advance their agenda.
