Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
First, the montage…
Then…the rationale for the clear and obvious fibbing…
From Chicks on the Right.
Can’t believe there are people falling for this. There must be. The democrats are imposing a bunch of brand-new rules on the market saying must-do-this, don’t-do-that…it’s obviously having an effect, and it’s obviously a harmful one…this clown says it must be because of the insurance companies that were in the market already, and his observation is “that’s capitalism” and “let the market decide.” The polar opposite of what was just done.
And what’s up with that chortling bobble-head thing? Looks to me like, he knows what he’s saying is the exact opposite of the truth. He’s less a definer-of-what’s-happening than a force of nature, he’ll do just as much lying as he’s allowed to do, like a bowling ball in the ocean will fall just as far as it will be allowed to. The real problem is, he & those like him are being allowed to get away with it.
Blame the voters. Blame the voters…
Update: Was thinking about this kind of odd behavior earlier this week. Of course, since I only just found out about this interview, I wasn’t thinking about Frank Pallone, I was thinking about Barack Obama. And, other liberals. Some of the stuff that comes out of them is just so obviously untrue you have to think, “How did you think you’d be able to sell that line of baloney?” In the President’s case, the one thing that keeps coming up over and over again is “I first found out about this in the last day or two, from reading the newspapers just like you” and now that He knows about it, “nobody is angrier about this than I am.”I know there is a hardcore segment of our population that is still gaga over Barack Obama, but is anyone actually buying this swill?
I think it’s a behavior learned from childhood — to go ahead and try & sell it, no matter how ridiculous it is. I think it’s bad parenting. Was going to start a blog post about it called Bad Mothering or something, but that would have been an exercise in just trying to tick people off, which isn’t healthy. However, the problem must start there. An important part of a parent’s job, and unfortunately it seems to fall disproportionately onto the mothers, is to send the message “That’s not going to fly, if you really want to go through life lying you need to get better at it.” That must be the problem, for there’s only one alternative and I don’t find the alternative credible. I can’t believe Barack Obama and His inner circle meet behind closed doors, go through all their shrewd calculations about what spin will & won’t work, and with all their P.R. talents come to the conclusion that the most winning strategy available to them is: Obama goes out and says “I had no idea this was going on…”…again…for the fifty-seven billionth time or whatever. It must be something far more primitive. Like a gag reflex. The aid comes up and says “Sir, questions are being asked about when You knew the website was going to take a crap,” and inside Obama’s head the instinct is activated — it’s worked this way since childhood. “Barack, did you know such-and-such?” and “No Mom, I had no idea” has always worked. Since the umbilical cord was cut. If something has always worked since then, that can be a powerful motivator.
Obama-Enigma starts to achieve resolution and make more sense when you open yourself to the possibility that President Obama, far from being a deity who hung the moon and sprinkled the stars across the inky canvas of heaven, is actually a tiny man who lives in a tiny world. Someone says “did You know” and the answer is “had no idea.” It’s just expected. And so I think, due to bad mothering, the boss says “had no idea” and the underlings…well, who the heck are they to question it? And so, I infer, they sprint off to the telephones and the computer keyboards and the podiums, and repeat it. Only after that does any real rational thinking enter into it, and of course by then the thinking is institutional, it says “Now that we’ve said it we’ve got to stick to the story.”
These lefty politicians seem to be trying to make a name for themselves, showing off what bad mothering they had. How naturally it comes to them to peddle such clear and obvious lies. It’s like they’ve figured out, the democrat politicians who rise to the power structure and get nominated for the big offices every two years, are the ones who have no shame. Shame weighs you down. So you rise to the top by showing off that you don’t have any.
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Shame weighs you down. So you rise to the top by showing off that you don’t have any.
Hey, it worked for the Clintons!
I didn’t really follow politics back then, and one of the main reasons I didn’t is because everyone who did seemed like an idiot. I’d hear some story about Bill (or, later, Hillary!), and everybody would start talking about if this is true, the conditions under which it might conceivably be true, the precise meaning of “is,” whatever. And all I could think was: Jesus, he’s lying. Nothing this man has said comes within a parsec of the truth. And every single word out of his mouth is a lie. He lies when he needs to, he lies when he doesn’t need to, and he lies when he most definitely needs not to. Moreover, it’s clear that he doesn’t believe his lies; his lying is a nervous tic, like tapping your shoes while waiting for an elevator.
You simply cannot lie that shamelessly, that consistently, without landing in the loony hatch, unless a) you’re a complete psychopath who lives entirely within his own delusions, or b) the habit of lying is so ingrained that it can’t properly be called a habit (the way breathing can’t really be called a habit).
Since I’m not a mind reader like some of your other commenters , I can’t speculate which one is true for Obama. But either way: I’m wouldn’t be in the least surprised if they did have some big, impressive, poll-tested spin management strategy ready to go…. but can’t deploy it, because it would require the kind of message discipline that a reflexive, lying-is-the-same-as-breathing liar like Obama is not constitutionally capable of maintaining.
- Severian | 11/02/2013 @ 14:05[…] Eratosthenes wonders aloud how liberals like Obama can lie so blatantly without shame or inhibition. […]
- Never Yet Melted » Shameless Lies | 11/04/2013 @ 08:04The ideas that Obama was sexually abused as a child by Frank Davis and that he is a closet bisexual and Muslim can credence as time goes on.
- Bob Sykes | 11/05/2013 @ 07:01I think the Left will stick with Obama no matter what. It’s like they don’t care what he does, says, or thinks, or what effect his actions will have.
- IcelandSpar | 11/12/2013 @ 18:23