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USA TODAY The claim: George S. Patton said, Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. A meme dating to 2015, claiming that World War II Gen. George S. Patton expressed disdain for left-wing Democrats, surfaced on Facebook in the days after the November election. It’s already gotten a one-two fact-check punch from Snopes and PolitiFact. The short answer: There is no evidence that Patton an innovator in the use of tanks in combat ever said this. Snopes found the earliest use of the quote in “The Unknown Patton” by Charles Province, a 1983 book. Province did not use footnotes in his book and said the work was not a biography. ....
JEA: The Daily Mail declared last December that “Mystery over US war hero’s death in hospital 12 days after he was paralyzed in an apparent car accident still fuels conspiracy theory years later.”[1] The funny thing is that by charging others of summoning conspiracy theory, the Daily Mail could not hide the fact that General George Patton was evidently assainated. Listen to this very carefully here: “Seventy- four years ago this month, General George S. Patton was en route to a Sunday afternoon hunting trip in the devastated region of Mannheim, Germany when his Cadillac limousine collided with a military truck parked on the side of the road. The two other passengers in the vehicle were unharmed except General Patton who was left with a massive head wound and paralyzed from the neck down. ....