Ha! It’s funny, because it’s true!
As Twitchy reported earlier, Tablet magazine exposed New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer’s fabricated Dylan quotes today.
https://twitter.com/marcatracy/status/229988722798645249
More from Tablet’s article, titled “Jonah Lehrer’s Deceptions; The celebrated journalist fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works”:
Over the next three weeks, Lehrer stonewalled, misled, and, eventually, outright lied to me. Yesterday, Lehrer finally confessed that he has never met or corresponded with Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s manager; he has never seen an unexpurgated version of Dylan’s interview for No Direction Home, something he offered up to stymie my search; that a missing quote he claimed could be found in an episode of Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour” cannot, in fact, be found there; and that a 1995 radio interview, supposedly available in a printed collection of Dylan interviews called The Fiddler Now Upspoke, also didn’t exist. When, three weeks after our first contact, I asked Lehrer to explain his deceptions, he responded, for the first time in our communication, forthrightly: “I couldn’t find the original sources,” he said. “I panicked. And I’m deeply sorry for lying.”
Lehrer has since resigned from the New Yorker, saying “the lies are over now.”
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/229995378332803072
Jonah Lehrer statement: "The lies are over now … I want to apologize to everyone I have let down." http://t.co/1BUEXF5O
— Poynter (@Poynter) July 30, 2012
More from Poynter:
“The lies are over now. I understand the gravity of my position. I want to apologize to everyone I have let down, especially my editors and readers. I also owe a sincere apology to Mr. Moynihan. I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed.
I have resigned my position as staff writer at The New Yorker.”
– Jonah Lehrer
Not over? The hilarious mockery.
https://twitter.com/max_read/status/229994780048891905
Journalist #Protip: When making up quotes, avoid Dylan. Just stick with Egyptian cabbies.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/229995736668966913
I think my favorite Dylan lyric has to be "Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat." Ended Vietnam war.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 30, 2012
Bob Dylan taught me a lot about reverse mortgages.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) July 30, 2012
"Romney 2012" — Bob Dylan.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 30, 2012
"Hey, I just met you/ and this is crazy/ but here's my number/ so call me, maybe?" – Bob Dylan
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 30, 2012
And now comes the #DylanQuotes hashtag, trending along with “Bob Dylan” and “Jonah Lehrer.”
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/230001470873948161
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/230011340687818752
"You have to buy the album to hear what's in it." #DylanQuotes
— The Real Matt Finn (@mdrache) July 30, 2012
"It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done, and everybody must get stoned." #DylanQuotes
— Mike Sielski (@MikeSielski) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/amylutz4/status/230002153396240384
RT @jzipps: "It's peanut butter jell-lay… peanut butter jell-lay peanut butter jellay with a baseball bat…" #DylanQuotes
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) July 30, 2012
#nickelback completes me #DylanQuotes
— Roger Smith (@Nuk3dawg) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/EvanRowley/status/230027839431393281
"I like big butts and I can not lie, You other brothers can't deny" Bob dylan #DylanQuotes
— Bita Lee?? (@bitalee) July 30, 2012
"You're an idiot, babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to read your TelePrompTer." #DylanQuotes
— Steve Maley (@OklaNOLA) July 30, 2012
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." #DylanQuotes
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/230007564379758592
Some are trying to kill the hilarious buzz!
https://twitter.com/jonathanshainin/status/230002680918048768
https://twitter.com/bendimiero/status/230007976998629378
Never!
"Twitter alone levies discipline." –Bob DYlan
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) July 30, 2012
Indeed. And the discipline is side-splitting! Keep them coming, Twitter.