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A Tidal Wave of Political Liars Lying
Political liars lie because they’re forwarding secret agendas and don’t want us to catch on. They also lie because they’re tailoring their messages to what they think we want to hear. We know that. Everybody knows that.
But if everybody knows that, why do so many people act as if they don’t know it? It’s a strange phenomenon.
If you had a friend who talked to you every day in a way you knew was disingenuous, if he said things obviously intended to cater to your opinions and beliefs, at some point wouldn’t you hold up your hand and say STOP? It would be maddening, wouldn’t it? It would be like eating too much molasses.
Sure, we like to have people agree with us, but there is a limit. There is especially a limit when we know they’re pretending to agree with us. There is REALLY a limit when we know they’re agreeing with us because they want something from us.
Of course, the “science” of PR makes no distinction between the truth and a lie. PR is based on the notion that you say things only and always to engender the effect you’re looking for (while concealing your true intent). And now much of the world runs on PR. That’s the engine. This is essentially what campaign advisers are there for: to show their candidates how to lie, how to get away with it, and how to make people like the lies.
The question for a politician is: how well am I lying; not, what am I lying about.
Nixon was a bad liar. He even seemed like a liar when he was saying what he really thought. He was basically trapped in being a liar at the core. He made you think a PR agent had created him whole out of cardboard and glue.
Reagan was a somewhat better liar, but still, when you got past his best moments, he was grossly inept.
Gerald Ford was a surprisingly good liar. He seemed to be a simple fool who actually believed what he said. That’s an art.
Jimmy Carter was a good liar and then a not-so-good liar. He had his good days and bad days.
George Bush I was an awkward liar. He was like Nixon in many respects. Put him behind a microphone and everything out of his mouth came across like a lie. Ditto for his son.
Bill Clinton was, all said and done, like Carter. Good days and bad days – until Monica. After that, he was Bubba, the prime Grade A non-stop bullshitter.
Obama, when the high oratory of his early days melted away, played it so close to the vest he entered a neutral zone where what he said carried neither the impression of being true nor false. It was dead fish. Unless you actually listened, and then you heard chains and chains of Chicago-baked prevarications
I’m talking about style here, not content. And style, for these men, is an artifact of PR. “Can I tell a good lie?” “Can I get over?” “Can I make it seem real?”
We’ve come so far in the cartoon world of political PR that John Q Public tends to judge politicians on the basis of how well they’re lying.
“He makes it seem he’s telling the truth. I like that. He’s doing well.”
“He’s an intelligent liar. He knows his facts and he can juggle them and manipulate them. That’s good.”…
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