Brian Williams himself was either ignorant of this history, or chose to pretend last night that it did not happen when framing this historic event for his viewers.
"We cannot pretend that last night's election outcome was anything less than deeply disturbing to those of us who care about climate stability and the role of the United States in the world," said Nathaniel Keohane, Vice President for Global Climate at the Environmental Defense Fund.
As much as I'd like to help everyone pretend that tonight's Super Tuesday results are going to be partly cloudy with a chance of some interesting twists, I think what I'm going to do instead is lay down a great big spoiler.
The guy in the bedroom next to mine was my best friend's boyfriend's best friend, so not only did my best friend and I have to wake up the next morning and pretend to forget that we'd gone down on each other the previous night, we also had to maintain that we'd just been making really low, masculine grunts for a laugh so that no one would snitch us out for being cheating date-rapists. .
Instead he plans to go to work early the next morning and pretend he was injured in an industrial accident and sue for compensation.
In the back seat, Dave said that he would call that evening and pretend to place an order for takeout, then take his wife to a CVS pharmacy nearby.
Or, for one afternoon, pretend you live in Ye Olden Days, when people somehow managed to survive without minute-by-minute access to e-mail and voice mail and even text messaging.
I'm almost 30 (and a woman), so every time I order something from West Elm I pretend for an afternoon that I'm a full-grown adult.
Let's not pretend that Thursday night's U.S. missile strike on Syria's Al Shayrat air base has anything to do with concern for the civilian victims of the regime's apparent April 3 chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
When it is midnight, pretend to go to the toilet.
Before Maynard began, she thanked the crowd for listening to their unromantic divulgences, saying, "I grew up in an alcoholic family where my father got drunk every night and we woke up the next morning pretending nothing ever happened".
