Mr. Daily's assertions about his record were not universally accepted by his peers.
Recently, Rossmo studied where the street artist Banksy left his early work, and found evidence to support the British Daily Mail's assertion, made in 2008 but never corroborated, that Banksy is a middle-aged man from Bristol, England, named Robin Gunningham.
There are cold crumbs of comfort for those who believe the Lib Dem leader has sold the party's soul to the right in the Daily Telegraph's assertion that Clegg will "push the government to the left as he takes charge".
Only by having lived with very "low confidence" (that is, endless preoccupation with others and their imagined opinions of me) and struggling daily with self-assertion, only by stripping the word "confident" itself of preconceived assumptions and smashing the concept with the mental Hammer of Truth, could I write this more accurate description of confidence.
It was a performance that felt freewheeling, contagious and delightful, with its ruminations on sex, the Daily Mail, and the assertion that popular culture "functions like a pink pony trotting through our brains shitting glitter".
Unless this is them hurling righteous spears of satire at the Daily Mail's recent assertion that our elite universities are "hotbeds of extremism".
It is equally telling that "Business Daily" can make the assertion that Uhuru's presidency is a boon for his family's businesses without being called out by the parliament or the Fourth Estate.
Jezebel's assertion that "The Daily Show" hires few female correspondents was not addressed in the letter.
The media has followed suit, one example being the Daily Mail's unsubstantiated recent assertion that seven in 10 migrants at Calais will reach the UK.
Yet even as it reported that assertion, The China Daily -- in a departure from its normal lap-dog tone -- dripped skepticism in a manner usually seen only in foreign reports.
