Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
PGL at Angry Bear has a missive regarding Karl Rove's recent speech at the AEI. Said missive states "Let’s face it – George W. Bush sent Karl Rove to the AEI to flat out lie. But then what’s new?"
Dr. David Altig takes exception to the term liar in a very nice post on the difference between a debate and a shouting match.
I'll bite and join the fray. A quote from Angry Bear...
"So I guess Karl’s fuzzy math says 63% is greater than 64.4%?!"
Sure it can be, mathematically. 63% of 100 is 63. 64.4% of 95 is 61.
Outside of that, my take is that people are sick of the spin, hence the term partisan garbage.
This administration which is Karl Roves child has taken obfuscation, misdirection and mudslinging to new levels. They make Nixon's guys look like alter boys.
The meer fact they got GeeDub elected as Texas governor and President twice, with his background and track record...
proves once again, if you tell a big lie enough times, people start believing it.
In this case, its the public that is not wrong, but venal and stupid for electing GeeDub and this quote is a testament to that fact.
"The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum."
"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
[Henry Louis Mencken, "Bayard vs. Lionheart", Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920.
Dr. David Altig takes exception to the term liar in a very nice post on the difference between a debate and a shouting match.
I'll bite and join the fray. A quote from Angry Bear...
"So I guess Karl’s fuzzy math says 63% is greater than 64.4%?!"
Sure it can be, mathematically. 63% of 100 is 63. 64.4% of 95 is 61.
Outside of that, my take is that people are sick of the spin, hence the term partisan garbage.
This administration which is Karl Roves child has taken obfuscation, misdirection and mudslinging to new levels. They make Nixon's guys look like alter boys.
The meer fact they got GeeDub elected as Texas governor and President twice, with his background and track record...
proves once again, if you tell a big lie enough times, people start believing it.
In this case, its the public that is not wrong, but venal and stupid for electing GeeDub and this quote is a testament to that fact.
"The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum."
"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
[Henry Louis Mencken, "Bayard vs. Lionheart", Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920.
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