When You Have to Lie to Sell Stuff
December 19, 2010 at 9:57 PM Leave a comment
In 1999 I bought a little 4″ x 4″ blank book (this is the cover — love the colors),
and since then I’ve used it to record quotes I like or that I want to think about.
I was looking through it today (trying to clear my desk (wish me luck) in anticipation of the new year), when I came across this:
March 24, 2006: Retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner appearing on DemocracyNow!: “…[W]hen you have to make up stories to sell the thing that you’re trying to defend, you’ve gone down a bad road.”
That one sentence encapsulates the GOP and the Fictional News Channel. And just think, Col. Gardiner said it before the advent of Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, the Glenn Beckistaners and crybabyism.
If they had a good product they wouldn’t have to lie to sell it. But they don’t and they do.
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