Posted on December 27, 2009, 12:21 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Pants on Fire.
It’s difficult to pinpoint when the Right figured out that lying was the path to victory, but in the years since Watergate, it’s become not just an expedient stalling tactic for difficult situations, but a way of life. Lying was still considered somewhat distasteful back then, as was the case when, inundated with a wave [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2009, 5:27 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Book Saloon.
One of my favorite books to emerge from the Watergate era, and there are many, is Jonathan Schell’s The Time of Illusion. In it, Schell discusses the myriad ways that the Nixon Administration created a world where truth didn’t matter; wars were fought, laws were made and lives were either exalted or destroyed based on [...]
