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...truth slowly." It's a lovely phrase, Mike, but untrue. Spinning is selling a version of events that you want others to believe rather than the version that you know to be true. In my book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security--to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?"--was exactly what we wanted to say. Which leads me to Rule...
...Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the presidential and vice-presidential nominees of what was then called the Republican party (which later became the Democratic party), ended up in an electoral college tie, with 73 votes each. The choice devolved on the lame-duck House of Representatives, with each state's delegation voting as a unit...
...judgment is partisan. (Seeing that the race in New York, where I vote, was going to Gore by a huge margin, I did not waste my vote on either Bush or Gore, but gave it to a third party candidate, as a dissenting gesture that now, of course, looks lame). I doubt that if George W. Bush sat down to play a game of seven-card stud, deuces wild, he would, after the cards were dealt, bring in lawyers to claim that treys and one-eyed jacks were also wild, and that the game was really night baseball...
...truth slowly." It's a lovely phrase, Mike, but untrue. Spinning is selling a version of events that you want others to believe rather than the version that you know to be true. In my book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security - to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?" - was exactly what we wanted to say. Which leads me to Rule...
...short, this is something that needs to be broadcast on national television - the fourth debate. Yes, the jokes are a little lame, and self-serving in their own way: Politicians do these dinners for two reasons: One, to take the sting out whatever foible's been dogging them lately. Two, to show the donor elite and the press that amid the heat and vitriol of this close-fought campaign, they can be good sports. But is that revelation only for the sophisticated ears of the moneybags and upper-crusters? Don't the voters deserve a little taste of this sort...