Historical Response #18: Ellen Brown Says That by Adding the Words "Is Quoted as Saying," She Escaped All Responsibility to Verify Any Quote.
I have caught Ellen Brown is a series of mistakes. She has cited bogus quotations by famous people to support her economic theory of fiat money, yet these famous people never said these things.
Now she says that she had no responsibility as an author to verify any of these quotes, because she added the words "is quoted as saying." She is saying, "See? I never said that he actually said it." She keeps saying this. This response makes look like a charlatan. She does not care.
Here is one more example:
18. Two bogus quotes from Bismarck on European bankersI've said he is "quoted as" saying that and have given my historical source.
Her historical source was (1) a 1921 article in a French journal, written by (2) a man who said Bismarck personally revealed his assessment of European banking to him when the man was 15 years old and (3) living in the United States.
Extracts from this article were originally cited by an antisemitic crackpot Russian "Count" whose book has been reprinted by a Greenbacker publishing company: Omni.
This was nuts in 1921, and it is nuts today.
It is incumbent on an author to verify the sources, as surely as a lawyer is supposed to verify the identities of the witnesses. Ellen Brown does not believe this as an author. Presumably, she does not believe it as a lawyer.
I can imagine her final summation before a jury. "It's true that my witnesses were actually impostors. But lots of people told me they were who they said they were. It's not my job to verify their identities." Would she win the case? Only with a jury filled with idiots.