People can see through the bullshit

For the love of God, can we stop equivocating something stated in an article written on a site like Forbes as a formal endorsement from said organization?

I recently saw this in an article. A simple click-through to the article showed this under the author’s bio:

“Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.”

So no – Forbes did NOT say he’s the “no 1 must-see keynote speaker.” Some guy who wrote an article on forbes.COM (and not even IN Forbes Magazine) said it.

It’s this pisspoor, duplicitious-as-fuck, obvious bullshit that drives people away.