EDITORIAL: A choice between two inveterate liars?

[rangerrebew]

August 3, 2016
A choice between two inveterate liars?
By Richard Butrick

A recent Commentary article titled “A Choice Between Two Inveterate Liars” maintained, as the title indicates, that both Trump and Clinton (Hillary) are inveterate liars.  The article proceeds to give examples to show there is an equivalency of deliberate deceitfulness.  But the examples fail to demonstrate equivalency by failing to distinguish between deliberate deception for some perceived gain and the simple bungling and mishandling of facts.  It is in the first case that the Sir Walter Scott quote applies and not the latter: “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

The difficulty with establishing a lie from a falsehood is the imputation of intent.  A liar, to be a liar, must be deliberately telling falsehoods.  Getting things wrong or all fouled up is not sufficient.  Joe Biden – so we tend to believe but can never know – is not a liar.  He comes across as a charming bungler.

But for the author, Noah Rothman:

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[JustPassinThru]

An interesting essay; but it overlooks the DELIBERATE SLANDERS that Trump seems compelled to repeat against his FORMER opponent.  He apparently wants to build up a strawman, an Emmanuel Goldstein, to continue to beat up, to whip his cultists into the necessary frenzy.

That is not the behavior, the operating mode if you will, of an honest man.

[catfish1957]

An interesting essay; but it overlooks the DELIBERATE SLANDERS that Trump seems compelled to repeat against his FORMER opponent.  He apparently wants to build up a strawman, an Emmanuel Goldstein, to continue to beat up, to whip his cultists into the necessary frenzy.

That is not the behavior, the operating mode if you will, of an honest man.

40 years ago, a lie as blatant as we see routinely with these two candidates would be death knell blow in the polls.

More proof of how far this country has fallen

[Dirt for sale]

Their lies amount to mental abuse and should be criminal. Lies lean and lies large from the lips of the liege lord; literal lies and liquid lies, lies from the lunk-head and lies from the long-head, lies which pay lip service to our lives and are freely loaned out on their principle.

[TomSea]

There really were some very good candidates this last time around, all very honest, Perry, Walker, Kasich, Rubio.