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...heads for the jazz clubs of Grand Rapids in search of his long-lost dad. A gentle diva, based on Flint's own Betty Carter, shows Bud that a family exists whenever folks decide to stick together. Kids will take to Bud's hilarious advice for "becoming a better liar." But be warned: they may also insist on learning to play...
...Unfortunately for Cisneros, he is not nearly as adept a liar as Clinton. Thanks to a few sloppy mistakes and a futile effort to maintain his dignity in a ridiculous situation, Cisneros was tripped up on the basic economics of his story: Did he pay his former mistress $10,000 or $60,000 a year? His inability to get his numbers straight catapulted him into the jaws of independent counsel David Barrett?s four-year, $10 million investigation. If Cisneros had been a more astute Clinton disciple, he would have known not to leave a paper trail of any kind...
Half-truths and evasions are a part of everyday life. We don't, like Jim Carrey, when he's unable to prevaricate in Liar Liar, lean over to our lover and say, "I've had better." Manners are deception by another name. The same is true of politics. We say we want politicians to give us the unvarnished truth, but at the end of the day we really don't want to hear a detailed history of a candidate's bathroom coke snorts any more than, say, Iowans want to hear that subsidizing ethanol is a dubious use of government...
...from Alabama whose rulings invigorated the civil rights movement; in Montgomery. Johnson helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of supporters to march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Governor George Wallace called him a "scalawagging...integrating liar." A Republican appointee, Johnson always insisted he was simply upholding "the supremacy...
This was plausible in 1941, with Nazism, Fascism and Japanese imperialism overrunning the world. Today its premise is expiring, with loud bangs and many whimpers, in a liar's presidency and on the ghastly fields of the former Yugoslavia. But it's almost impossible to exaggerate how deeply Americans felt this destiny in the period covered by this show, roughly from the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt to the outbreak of the cold war. And they had reason to believe...