![]() ![]() 24 days into the oil spill, former journalist Brit Hume said, "Where's the oil? You don't see it on the beach" - like it's a liberal conspiracy. It's where facts don't matter, because no one ever hears from that other, inconvenient side called reality. But she got away with it because she lied in the one place where it's still perfectly acceptable to lie - inside the Fox News, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh Republican bubble. She "lived and worked" through Exxon Valdez the same way Christie Brinkley lived and worked through the Iranian hostage crisis. Last week she said she knows what the Gulf states are going through now because, "I have lived and worked through that Exxon Valdez oil spill." She was a 25-year-old newlywed sportscaster, living in another part of the state that didn't see any oil. There's video of everything, so to think you can get away with making a speech and just pulling shit out of your ass, you'd have to be an egomaniac, a sociopath, or a world-class moron. Or John McCain saying, " I never considered myself a maverick." Which of course prompted an avalanche of video, e-mails, letters and probably telegrams of McCain bragging that he was a maverick. ![]() Politically, it's even more ridiculous to think you can lie: Richard Blumenthal, running for the Senate in Connecticut, saying he was in Vietnam when he wasn't? This isn't camp, where you can tell a lie and no one will know back home. Also be aware that, without makeup, you don't look anything like you do in the Black Eyed Peas. Mostly of a girl named Kelly, showing off things she bought at Forever 21, but still.Įven when you're just at Wal-Mart in your pajamas buying condoms, someone is taking a picture of it and putting it on a website called "People at Wal-Mart Buying Condoms in Their Pajamas." And Fergie - whenever you're doing something shady in a hotel room, of course someone is filming it. And the first comment would be "fag." Twenty-four hours of new video is posted on YouTube every 60 seconds. Jesus once said that there was nothing hidden that would not some day be revealed, but if he was alive today, and walked on water, it would be instantly on YouTube between a skateboard accident and a turtle biting a baby's ass. ![]() I even have reason to believe I'm being recorded right now. ![]() Our privacy is gone, our Internet conversations are forever. You just can't lie anymore - facts are too easy to check, everything is on video, and your wife put a GPS in your glove compartment. In college, I described my job of pot dealer as "regional sales associate for a large multi-national firm." But we just had the fifth anniversary of YouTube and the twelfth of Google, and between them, they're killing off a great institution: lying. New Rule: Before running for office, politicians must be informed of their rights: that "Everything you say can and will be used against you in a Google search." Now, of course, we all embellish our resumes a little. ![]()
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