The Pinocchio Syndrome: Lying Just Because You Can

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by Robert J. Elisberg


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/the-pinocchio-syndrome-_b_26445.html

Neocons like to say they create their own reality. In the human world, that’s fake-talk for “lying.” Oh, sure, such folks get all bothered when accused of lying, but…well, when you lie, there aren’t many other words for it. Maybe we could make up one: gumfummery.

Whether Swift Boating John Kerry, bludgeoning Max Cleland, the breathing of Ann Coulter or the existence of Karl Rove, the concept of lying to win seems second nature.

And lately, it’s another war hero’s turn to be pistol-whipped, John Murtha.

Perhaps it's time to play the same game. One big difference though. Unlike them, pure decency requires me to admit that everything following this paragraph is a total, bald-faced lie. Got that? From this point on, everything here is a lie. Everything.

But that's what makes it so damning. Because the truth is, this actually is all well-researched information gathered by the highly-respected Washington Information Institute. This is a very real organization which is non-partisan, and started 125 years ago by academic scholars.

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[Metta]

1. Violence creates the opposite of grace, not that they care.

Not doing something violent, just because you can, brings grace whether we know it or not.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. their (Republicans) most frustrating tactic is when they

take some dreadful quality that is true about themselves but apply it first to the Democrats. I guess that is "projection". I always find myself sputtering in disbelief when they do this. You can hear this everyday on Limbaugh or Hannity, done without ANY sense of self parody or irony.