Call me old fashioned (or even just old, since I'm currently 71), but when I was growing up, it was unthinkable to lie to get ahead. Get caught, and you could expect not only to be kicked out of your position, but also to lose all credibility going forward. The currency of lies, distortions, and misrepresentations that now passes for pol…
Call me old fashioned (or even just old, since I'm currently 71), but when I was growing up, it was unthinkable to lie to get ahead. Get caught, and you could expect not only to be kicked out of your position, but also to lose all credibility going forward. The currency of lies, distortions, and misrepresentations that now passes for political discourse among some political folks, exacerbated by willful ignorance, stuns me every time I hear it. For media outlets like Fox to profit from knowingly disseminating such lies makes it all the worse.
Call me old fashioned (or even just old, since I'm currently 71), but when I was growing up, it was unthinkable to lie to get ahead. Get caught, and you could expect not only to be kicked out of your position, but also to lose all credibility going forward. The currency of lies, distortions, and misrepresentations that now passes for political discourse among some political folks, exacerbated by willful ignorance, stuns me every time I hear it. For media outlets like Fox to profit from knowingly disseminating such lies makes it all the worse.