Fiction author JK Rowling claimed on Twitter that President Donald Trump avoided a wheelchair-bound boy, but unedited video proves that he did shake the boy’s hand.
Trump met with a group of “victims of Obamacare” on June 24 shortly before giving a press conference about health care reform. The victims stood on the stage behind Trump as he gave his speech.
According to the “Harry Potter” author and a conveniently edited video, as Trump was taking the stage he avoided shaking the hand of a young boy in a wheelchair.
Rowling went on a Twitter rant about the “stunning moment,” claiming Trump avoided the child “as though frightened he might catch his condition.”
However, unedited video shows Trump actually greeted the boy first and bent down to his eye level and shook his hand. In fact, the original video Rowling referenced is now deleted on Twitter.
The video and tweets at The Daily Caller
J.K Rowling and the Chamber of Fools(Liberals and Snowflakes)look out Fawkes the Phoenix is a Angry Bird
Paul Joseph Watson has done it again. In yet another viral video, the Infowars Editor-at-Large utterly destroyed JK Rowling for falsely claiming President Trump avoided a wheelchair-bound boy.
Some dirty words included, but with an adorable accent.
I noticed that she has gone pretty quiet since being called out for her misrepresentation.
Here’s Melania either just before or just after reading a story to the boy:
JK Rowling didn’t make an ass of herself, she was already and ass, she just put it on display. Typical brainless liberal.
If there was ever a price to pay for falling for every false story intended to be spread by rabid liberals, they would start checking out those stories that are “too good to be true” and being more careful. But there IS no price to pay. Liberals are neither shamed or remorseful about being so gullible, stupid and/or dishonest.
So, they continue to maliciously invent stories with the intent to cause damage to the government and continue to propagate all the harmful stories they can find. Were I repeatedly so stupid and gullible, I would be embarrassed. But, I have morals.
@Redteam, #3:
J K Rowling created something positive that has given great enjoyment to untold millions of children and adults world-wide, and became enormously wealthy by doing so. She would be a billionaire, had she not given so much to charity. In 2011 alone, she gave away $160 million, which was 16 percent of her entire net worth.
Unlike Donald Trump, what she gave to charity was all her own money—not money donated to some bogus charitable foundation with her name on it. Nor did she start out by inheriting a $40 million share of her daddy’s $200 million real estate company. When Rowling began writing the Harry Potter series, she was a single parent struggling to support her child on welfare.
She admittedly jumped the gun with a Twitter post when she reacted to a misleading story. That said, her contempt for the man in genuine, and in my opinion, not without reason.
@Greg:
I can’t say if that’s true or not. Everyone that went to see one of her movies might end up insane one day as a result. I don’t have that to worry about as nothing about Harry Potter has ever interested me. Never seen one, the reports on them sound as if they are for immature children. I’ll accept that.
If that’s true then she is/has been a billionaire. I don’t see how putting your money into a foundation to manage it being distributed to charities is any less noble than just ‘claiming’ you donated to charity. Bill Gates does his thru foundations, Slick Willie does his through foundations. Is that somehow not ‘really a donation’?
If you were trying to say something about Rowlings to make me admire her, you’ve failed. She needs to spend some of her money to help keep Muslims out of UK or she won’t have any money left after they confiscate it.
@Greg: She wrote some entertaining books, so she is allowed to jump to her prejudiced conclusions and help you leftists spread lies?
Al Capone made charitable donations, too. No doubt he, too, was a Democrat, as they seem to live by the premise that anything that belongs to anyone else is fair game, the ends justifies the means and the better the liar, the better the person.
Again, the question is, if Trump is so terrible, why is it necessary for lying, corrupt, despicable leftists to invent lies by which to try and destroy him?
Once again you, as the representative liberal, celebrate a liar because they tell the lies you want told. You can’t see the damage done to the United States for your blinding hatred of anything not liberal.
She doesn’t make movies, she writes books—eleven in all, an estimated 350-450 million of which have been sold to date, worldwide.
None, I suppose, are up to the elevated literary standards of Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life.
@Greg:
Oh, so you’re saying she didn’t make any money from movies? All from selling books? Somehow, I suspect that’s not true. And I also suspect it’s highly likely that more people will benefit from the book about Trump than any of her books.
Did you personally learn any life lessons from any of her books? Is so, elaborate a little.
Do you think her books are more or less truthful than her fiction about Trump avoiding the boy in the wheel chair? Does she usually lie, or was this unusual for her? How do you know?
What do you think about this sentence? “Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, …” Think it ‘s a lie, or truthful?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling
@Redteam, #9:
She made a lot of money from the movies, which have done extraordinarily well, but at least as much if not more came from book sales. Figure 10 percent of the retail price for every hardcover sold. Every first edition release sold out as soon as they hit the shelves and were reprinted again and again. Then 7.5 to 10 percent on each paperback edition, which continue to sell very well, and upwards of 25 percent on every electronic download, which currently sell on Amazon for just under $9.
I imagine it’s accurate. Rowling has won so many awards and honorary titles that it’s almost easier to keep track of what she hasn’t. The Newbery Medal would be one such. It only goes to U.S. citizens. Robert Galbraith is a pen name she’s written under. Authors sometimes to that when they write for differing markets. The Galbraith books are crime fiction, not intended for young readers.
@Greg:you said:
Now you’re saying:
wiki says her total book sales are:
Which equals $318 million US Dollars.
So if she’s made 10% off book sales that would be $31, 800,000 that seems to be a long way from $1 billion? Want to guess where the other 969 million came from? Think movies were significant?
@Greg:
you kinda missed the point of what I was asking: which was:
See that part about film and television producer? Your claim was she made her money from books, not movies.
I’ve wasted enough time on this, I think. I’ve lost track of what the point is and why it seemed to matter.
@Greg: Yes, you leaped off onto a tangent to avoid the actual point; liberals blinded by prejudiced hatred spreading America-damaging lies.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: And that tangent that he leaped out onto was a tangent that he didn’t have a clue about. He was trying to claim how great a person JK Rowling was and that she made all her money writing books. Once I showed that, as usual for him, he didn’t have any idea what the hell he was talking about, he decides he needs to change the subject. Not realizing that he was just as wrong about the main subject that he started with.. It was Rowling that was totally wrong about what she tweeted, but she was just trying to be a ‘know it all’ liberal.
@Greg:
You didn’t lose track, you were never on the track.
@Greg:
The wages of pure, blind hate
@Greg: The track was a liberal jumped on a piece of false information, used it to attack the President, and then was made a fool when the footage was found to be incomplete.
You tried to derail that by arguing Rowling’s works and whatnot.
You are part of the self-proclaimed elites deluded into thinking they are holding back a horde of ignorant hate-mongers…while they themselves are perpetrating violence and falsehoods every day.
You have no point. We know. Rowling made a mistake, one that echoes the growing tide of hatred spewed by a certain “class” of Western Civilization.
Do you handlers know they are paying you to hurt the Dem Party?
@Nathan Blue:
AAAnnnnnddddd, to make matters worse, he was totally wrong on that, claiming Rowling made her money off books, not movies. Then instead of acknowledging he didn’t know his A$$ from a hole in the ground, he said he’d lost track of the discussion. I’m sure his handlers are not real pleased.
I can sum up ALL of JKRowling’s books in one sentence:
“And then what happened?”
Every campfire side troop leader knows how to do this style of story telling.
@Nanny G, #20:
Of course, that also pretty much sums up the entire story of human history, as well as the life story of any individual human being who has ever lived.
Why do people feel compelled to detract from Rowling’s extraordinary success, which is a result of her own creative efforts, and which has brought so many young people so much enjoyment? Her success involved the exploitation of no one. Her books transmit a hopeful, positive message. They progress with their readers from childhood concerns to adult issues. They teach the value of friendship, loyalty, and perseverance in the struggle against evil. They’re certainly a more beneficial way for children and young adults to spend their time than Grand Theft Auto, first person shooter video games, or any number of mindless television programs and Hollywood movies. They’ve given an entire generation of children an appreciation for reading, and taught them something about making moral decisions. She has pointed out that there’s something important that every person has to decide, and that the decision ultimately makes you what you are. For that alone, she should get a medal.
@Greg:
Let me ask an even more pertinent question. Why does a liberal a$shole that happens to write a few fiction books for children think that gives her some special insight as to what is appropriate actions by the President of another country that she is not even a citizen of. Especially when her special insight is based on a false conclusion based on her prejudice.
How do you know that? You’re a grown man over 60 years old reading children’s books and think they transmit a ‘positive’ message. Shouldn’t you let the children pass judgement on what she transmits? Do you regularly read books written for young children. Are you all caught up on Mickey and Donald? Do you sometimes read books that are intended for grown up people?
such as her perseverance against the evils of Donald Trump based on something that she doesn’t even have knowledge of, such as the lie that Trump ignored a boy in a wheelchair. Yep, that’s what we need, someone that jumps on a lie and blows it out of proportion just attempting to make a point of something that was a total lie.
Young adults? these are childrens books, they’re not intended for young adults. Young adults should be dealing with real world, not make believe, as Rowling apparently does, in commenting on something she has no knowledge on.
moral decisions? such as spreading a lie about a president and a child in a wheelchair. She had no problem with that ‘moral decision’?
Not sure what your message was supposed to be Greg, but you failed about as bad as your idol did. You may be seeing the same illusions she did.
There are 7 plots in all fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
EVERYTHING is a variant of one or another.
JKRoling uses one of them, over & over:
Overcoming the Monster.
Even Boy Scout leaders throw in some of the other plots once in a while.
Oh!
But that’s not what I was going to comment about.
JKRowling has sort-of apologized.
As long as you are
1. the boy, or
2. his immediate family
AND
3. offended be her Tweets.
Then, and only then, did she weakly apologize to you.
This is on her Twitter.
@Nanny G: So she really didn’t apologize so much as made up a poor excuse. The persons that are owed an apology are the ones that she lied to. The boy in the wheelchair only needed an apology because he was the tool used in a lie that was used only to make someone look like the Monster. Yes, she’s a storyteller that should have realized that there needs to be a believable situation to use to make her point. Unfortunately there were camera’s there to prove she was the unsympathetic one.
She has the same right to speak her mind as anyone else, and a very large audience of people who listen to what she says. Trump isn’t the only one with a Twitter account.
I’ve read most of her books, consequently I do know what they say. I’ve read a lot of young adult and children’s fiction. The best of it is of excellent literary merit, and every bit as important as books written exclusively for adults—more so, perhaps, since it influences the people to whom the future belongs. Young readers are often very smart. Consider the fact that Philip Pullman’s works are young adult fiction. Some of the ideas explored are too sophisticated for the average adult to process.
She has an opinion about Donald Trump. As for evil, it’s wherever you find it. Its beginnings often tend to be surprisingly banal. It’s often an outcome when good people simply fail to pay attention early on. They fail to say, “Wait a minute… Hasn’t this sort of thing has happened before? What did it lead to?”
The world and who we are in it consists of the stories we believe about it and about ourselves. The affairs of men in the “real world” are more strongly influenced by that truth than by any other single thing. Stories purposefully told are things of enormous power.
It wasn’t Rowling who posted the misleading video. She only commented on something she thought to be true. That error isn’t a reflection on her work. Is there nothing that you or I have commented on that has later turned out to be untrue?
@Greg:
No, Rowling didn’t post the misleading video, but she DID make the grave error of commenting on something that was not true, and then, in typical liberal fashion, couched her “apology” to not include the person she [wrongly] slammed. In my neck of the woods, that’s called letting you mouth overload your a$$, or writing a check your a$$ can’t cash.
Of course, the press was all aflutter with her initial comments but seemed less than interested when she was proven wrong about her assumptions.
@Greg:
Hell Greg, that makes it even worse. So you’re saying she was just talking out of her ass. Running someone down in a case where she didn’t even know the facts. And then to make it worse, apologizing to herself about making a mistake rather than to the person she incorrectly accused of doing something wrong. You don’t seem to realize that ‘she was wrong, Trump was not wrong’ so if she issued an apology it was to herself for being made an ass of.
Surely you’re not thinking that is an ‘impressive’ thing. I guess you’re still reading Superman comics and Mighty Mouse and keep up with Mickey regularly, also.
You mean like when after 8 years of Slick Willie, then along comes Obozo and no one asked, hey, didn’t we do this sh!t before?
Yes, we are fully aware of the concept of liberals screwing up the minds of children.
Oh, her stupidity is automatically excused because she’s a liberal and that was what was expected? Really?
You do recall the saying ” know when to stop digging”
@Greg: Do your research on taxes in the UK. She didn’t give money to charities out of the goodness of her heart. She did it to save what money she has.
@Greg:
Didn’t she sort of do that herself? Here’s a question; why are liberals so eager to accept lying and dishonest behavior as long as they benefit from the lies and dishonesty?
She has an opinion about Donald Trump. As for evil, it’s wherever you find it.
@Deplorable Me:your quote from Greg:
You are so correct. Greg asked the wrong question. Why did Rowling feel like that just because she could successfully write children’s fantasy books, that made her an authority on politics in the US? She opened her mouth and put a big foot in it about something that was none of her damned business (at least Trump is not allowing the US to be over run by Muslims like England is) and now she can’t understand why Americans don’t appreciate her immaturity of thinking she is living in a fantasy world.