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Great piece from @monacharen the total and complete collapse of the Sidney Powell narrative needs far more air time on the right:

Sidney Powell Speaks ‘Her Truth’ - The Bulwark
The Trumpist propagandist has been forced to admit that her “facts” aren’t “true.”
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9:34 AM · Mar 24, 2021

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The Big Lie is starting to unravel. One of Trump’s disinformation stars, Sidney Powell, is backing down. But while we’re considering the matter of truth and lies, let’s recall when conservatives cared about truth (or seemed to).

In the 1990s, Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú was a phenomenon. Of Mayan descent, she offered harrowing testimony about the conduct of the Guatemalan military during that country’s civil war. Her 1983 as-told-to memoir, I Rigoberta Menchú, was a sensation. In 1992, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

When it came to light that Menchú had distorted key aspects of her autobiography, right and left responded very differently. David Stoll, an anthropologist, learned through archival research and interviews with more than 120 people that some of her tales were false. A younger brother she said had died of starvation never existed. Another brother, whom she claimed had been tortured to death in front of her parents, died in completely different circumstances. And though Menchú claimed that she had never attended school and was illiterate until shortly before dictating her memoir, she had actually been a scholarship student at two prestigious Catholic private schools and attained the equivalent of a middle-school education. A New York Times investigation confirmed Stoll’s findings.

Liberals tended to excuse Menchú, on the grounds that her story revealed a “larger truth.” “Whether her book is true or not, I don’t care,” said Marjorie Agosin, head of the Spanish department at Wellesley College. “We should teach our students about the brutality of the Guatemalan military and the U.S. financing of it.” Others stressed that while details of her story might not have been strictly true, the overall narrative remained valid because it “raised our collective consciousness” about the Maya people.

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[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... I hope she is never able to practice law again. She will probably become an exert law guest for some FOX-type network. Maybe she will get her own show...

[gratuitous]

2. Dear Lord, is Mona Charen still "writing"?

When you've lost Mona, it's time to pack it in, Sidney.