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You want some more lies

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:17 am
by Sangersteve
Bowe Bergdahl. The IRS’s missing e-mails. Lena Dunham. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Jonathan Gruber. GM and that faulty ignition switch. Andrew Cuomo and that anti-corruption commission. The Secret Service and that White House intruder. Rachel Noerdlinger and her “disabled” son. Rolling Stone and gang rape.

2014 was the year when truth was optional. 2014 was the year when convenient fabrication was the weapon of choice for celebrities, activists, big business and politicians. 2014 was the Year of the Lie.

In each case, the liars used their powerful positions to intimidate, harass, marginalize or just plain bilk ordinary people who lacked access to a megaphone with which to shout back.
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Mostly the liars didn’t suffer any repercussions for spreading falsehoods, and most didn’t even seem particularly embarrassed when they were exposed.



Here are some whoppers

Re: You want some more lies

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:33 am
by ann jusko
I shutter to think of the corruption that most American people are "letting it ride" with very little uproar. We've come to accept lying as part of our culture. How sad that we've just turned the other cheek. Doesn't that make us less as a country and as people on a whole?

Re: You want some more lies

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:47 am
by grouchy
That is a very good article! Thanks for the link.

Re: You want some more lies

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:11 am
by Grassman
Just imagine what we have no idea about.

Re: You want some more lies

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:48 pm
by ann jusko
I'm sure we don't know the half of it.