There are many kinds of lies in the political world. There are the whoppers. Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. I did not have sex with that woman. I am not a crook.
There are lies of omission, such as the Republicans bemoaning the current economy even though they know full well it’s their own fault. I guess the currently popular term for that is “being disingenuous.”
There is lying by tone of voice. NASA is spending HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. (sounds like more than billions, doesn’t it?)
Then there is fakery. Sarah Palin was not lying when she wrote things on the palm of her hand, but there was something very fake, very theatrical about it. As stupid as I think she is, I doubt that she really needed to write “tax cuts” and “lift American spirits” on her hand. She spoke for quite a while, and either had pages of notes or an actual script, or used a teleprompter. The whole writing on the hand thing was strictly for show.
It worked for her. Her supporters thought it was folksy and natural. Her opponents (like me) were drawn to attack it, and not the tangled string of nonsense that was her speech.
I just watched another example of fakery. I know Blagojevich is a long and unusual name. It is 4 syllables, which is two or three longer than average. It is Slavic, which makes it almost automatically comical. But it’s not really that difficult to pronounce.
The 1st syllable is blah, like blah blah blah. The 2nd syllable is goy, which is a rather racist term that Jews use to mean “not a jew.” The 3rd syllable can be pronounced either eh or oh, but it’s short and you get through it before anybody is really paying attention, so that part is pretty easy, too. The last part is vich, which rhymes with bitch or sandwich, and if you can’t pronounce that you’ve got a serious problem.
So, when Republican Senator Mike Enzi pretended in a speech yesterday that he couldn’t pronounce Blagojevich, he was faking. Whether he did it for humor or to demean Rod Blagojevich, which would be totally redundant, I don’t know.
Probably, like Sarah Palin, he wanted to convince his constituents that he is just as ignorant as they are.
Republican v. Democrat, Liberal v. Conservative, Big Government v. Small Government are all important divisions within our society. However, the real war that is coming is between intelligent people and stupid people.
And we are seriously outnumbered.
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True, smart people are outnumbered. What is even sadder, the ignorant but established traditionals are in control of our US educational system, and the private schools they profit from as well, mass producing little arrogant, ignorant, greedy bigots. We are watching our banking committee, congress and even president being purchased and controlled by big money, ill-gotten gain. I am all for making money with equal opportunity for everyone…but the opportunity is not equal. So as long as the ignorant, or rather the informed who simply want to keep everyone else, the poor, ignorant…we are stuck. And we then wonder “why do they hate us..”….