[Ads-l] Bogus Poe attribution

[Jonathan Lighter]

Andre Bauer, former Lt. Gov. of SC:, on CNN:

"You know, Edgar Allan Poe once said, 'Believe half of what you see and
nothing of what you hear,' and we really haven't seen a whole lot of
evidence that said Russia tried to help one party versus another."

An odd quote to be fathered on Poe. Bauer must have meant Mark Twain,
Winston Churchil, or Shakespeare.l

JL



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