"It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, is when a politician tells the truth — or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down." Kinsley Gaffe.
The Boomerbuster Butt is related to the Pundit Confession. Both are hard to ever recover from. Leonhardt has already committed the Pundit Confession, as I have pointed out here.
Brooks, for example, a sort of greased pig at the county fair, never committed so elementary a blunder, as far as I know, but then I read him only intermittently.
By far the most common American politician faux pas is simply to make an utterly untrue statement, but one made not out of indifference to the truth at all, as described in the Kinsley Gaffe, but rather an even more elementary failing, a statement made not knowing what the truth would be if it bit the politician in the butt...
The politician, himself, not merely his statement, then becomes a Boomerbuster Butt. It is worse than a Kinsley Gaffe, from which the politician himself perhaps, with therapy, can recover.
The Boomerbuster Butt is related to the Pundit Confession. Both are hard to ever recover from. Leonhardt has already committed the Pundit Confession, as I have pointed out here.
Brooks, for example, a sort of greased pig at the county fair, never committed so elementary a blunder, as far as I know, but then I read him only intermittently.
By far the most common American politician faux pas is simply to make an utterly untrue statement, but one made not out of indifference to the truth at all, as described in the Kinsley Gaffe, but rather an even more elementary failing, a statement made not knowing what the truth would be if it bit the politician in the butt...
The politician, himself, not merely his statement, then becomes a Boomerbuster Butt. It is worse than a Kinsley Gaffe, from which the politician himself perhaps, with therapy, can recover.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
SOME THINGS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP SAYS THEM
We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue! DT
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
re THOMAS FRIEDMAN SOME THINGS ARE TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP BELIEVES THEM
Friedman clings to his philosophy here, even while he lists an exhausting list of experts who all say we have long been getting screwed by China.
Friedman still believes in free and open trade. He believes in big time trade with China. Nixon opened the door. Clinton normalized trade relations leading to the boom that never stops.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
He believes also that the world is flat.
Some things are false even if Trump doesn't believe them either.
Friedman clings to his philosophy here, even while he lists an exhausting list of experts who all say we have long been getting screwed by China.
Friedman still believes in free and open trade. He believes in big time trade with China. Nixon opened the door. Clinton normalized trade relations leading to the boom that never stops.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
He believes also that the world is flat.
Some things are false even if Trump doesn't believe them either.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
WHY HAVE THE LIBERALS HAD SUCH A HARD TIME SEEING WHAT EVEN TRUMP CAN SEE?
Monday, April 2, 2018
LEONHARDT'S CONFESSION TWO WORDS MEA CULPA YOU FOOLS
For the rest, he is now telling you that business is finally, now, really, really, too big.
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