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The Emperor's New Clothes

By: Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by: Emma Fenney
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In "The Emperor's New Clothes", two weavers tell the emperor that they can make him a new suit of clothes that is invisible to people who are unfit for their positions or who are stupid or incompetent. Con men, the two weavers actually outfit the emperor in nothing, but will anyone be willing to tell the emperor that he is naked? As an idiom, the story's title refers to things that are accepted as common knowledge in spite of being obviously untrue.

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This tale of belief has been on my mind for a while, and after entertaining myself this past rainy weekend with the “mindless media talking heads,” I connected the dots. We are living in this fairy tale.

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