“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” – Arthur Calwell
Many, if not most people, consider the phrase, “lying politician,” to be redundant. Ever since our Constitution was ratified, elected office has attracted many who really do seek to serve the public. Unfortunately, the profession also draws in a large number of those who desire only to satisfy their own need for power, money or both. For the latter group, ethics is a barrier that must be avoided, overcome or ignored. Most of the less honorable politicians will try to hide or explain away their disreputable behavior, but occasionally, when caught, they beam with pride. Harry Reid, former Democrat Senator from Nevada, gives us a prime example.
In the campaign running up to the 2012 election between incumbent President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, Senator Harry Reid told the Senate and the public that Romney had not paid his income taxes in the last ten years. This was a flat out lie and Reid knew it. On the eve of his retirement from the Senate, CNN’s, Dana Bash asked Reid if he regretted that statement. Reid’s response is the classic answer of an amoral political hack: “Romney didn’t win, did he?” In other words, in Reid’s opinion, the ends justified the means. Lying is acceptable if it enables you to win.
Lying is not only the purview of politicians, it is the staple of the mainstream, corporate media. Until the popularity of cable news started in the 1990s, the three networks had a monopoly on what was aired. Like the newspapers in the major cities, they leaned to the left, but claimed to be neutral deliverers of current events. At that time, the media hid their political leanings even though the unbiased observer could tell.
After cable networks started gathering an audience, political prejudice became much more apparent. Now, the so-called journalists on the networks, cable news and major newspapers don’t even try to hide the political sentiments. It is very difficult to determine which stories are hard news and which are political opinions.
They all use the same phraseology at the same time. When all of the corporate news media was carping about “Russian collusion”, it was obvious that they were all colluding with the Democrat party. With every mythical Trump scandal, the left mainstream media used the DNC talking point that “The walls are closing in on Trump.” The same words were used on the networks, cable news and newspaper articles. This shows that most of our alleged free press journalists are either obsequious servants to the Democrat party, unimaginative dolts who refuse to question those in the bureaucratic swamp power structure, or lazy partisans who lack the initiative to create a new phrase for any given situation.
With all of their past lies about Trump, conservatives, the origin of the COVID virus, the obscene accumulation of wealth by politicians of both parties, the Democrats, RINO Republicans and the corporate media, have proved that they can’t be trusted. Their latest lie, that Hunter Biden’s sweetheart legal deal is NOT a sweetheart deal, should have broken their credibility with any person whose IQ is higher than Joe Biden’s.
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Good points, Buz.
Politicians lie to us because it works. They realize that there is no shortage of naive, gullible people who will believe everything that they say. When their message is reinforced by the lying mainstream media this makes for a powerful combination that many will succumb to.
We need to remember that there are no laws against politicians lying to us. When politicians try to pull the wool over our eyes the principle of caveat emptor (buyer beware) is in force. We should view anything that the politicians say with a healthy dose of skepticism since what they say is often factually wrong.
Amen to that, Irv.
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