Obama Breaks the First Rule of Lying Believably - Godfather Politics: The GOP has been “bamboozling” Americans and running up “wild debts,” the president told an audience in Denver this week.
If you’re going to be a liar in a political campaign and get away with it, there are some ground rules that must be followed.
Now it’s true that if you repeat a lie three times in public, it generally sticks. Especially if you have the help of sycophantic media to trumpet your lie far and wide, comment on what it means to the world, and so forth.
Wording is also important, particularly phrased in the form of a question, such as the ever-popular, “So, senator, is it true you’ve stopped beating your wife?” No matter the answer, your victim is fixed like a bug on a pin.
President Obama’s campaign is skilled at these tactics.
But it seems that Obama and his teleprompter have forgotten another basic rule of successful lying: The lie must be believable.
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