Posted on 09/15/2016 5:48:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” But he clearly had a compulsion.
In his book “No One Left To Lie To,” Christopher Hitchens deconstructed Bill Clinton’s compulsion to lie. If he were alive today, my friend would have a field day with Bill’s wife.
Lying is breathing for the Clintons. Secrecy is favored above all. When the truth would do, they lie – seemingly only to see if they can get away with it.
When there are potentially serious consequences, they lie. When there is nothing at stake, they lie. Jon Lovitz should sue them for stealing his Tommy Flanagan character.
The lies about the secret server and threats to national security or the pay-for-play years at the State Department are somewhat understandable – there are serious consequences should the truth ever come out. When your future plans, and prison, are potentially on the line, BleachBit-ing your server when its contents are under subpoena is a gamble a lot of people would take.
And it paid off for Hillary. Just like all the other lies have paid off for the Clintons.
When you’ve been getting away with it your whole life, why wouldn’t you keep doing it?
What has changed is not the frequency of the lying but the purpose. Pleading ignorance to a friendly FBI on what you can and can not remember is one thing; claiming to be “overheated” on a cool summer morning is something else.
When Hillary Clinton passed out, then needed to be propped up like a broom against a wall by her staff and security detail, her campaign first denied anything had happened. Then, the campaign said she was merely overheated and would be fine.
Were it not for a civilian filming her carcass being dragged and slung into her van, the first story might have stuck and the second almost certainly would have.
After hours of liberal journalists rushing to recount their own brushes with “overheating” and anchors (particularly MSNBC) beclowning themselves about her “long sleeves” and blistering temperatures in New York on Sunday morning (it was breezy in the high 70s with low humidity, for the record), the campaign paraded Hillary out of her daughter’s building to wave and hug a young girl. All was well.
But it wasn’t all well because it wasn’t at all true.
Later in the day, the Clinton campaign forced its journalist allies to scrap all their hard work yet again when it announced she had pneumonia. They lined up to declare her “brave” for “powering through” to continue to campaign.
So was Hillary dehydrated, sick, tired or simply too hot? Yes and no. And maybe.
It doesn’t matter, really. What matters is the lie. If any of those stories were true – and it’s safe to assume none before the pneumonia story were – they’d have stuck with them. The truth, after all, is much easier to remember, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s believable.
But the stories weren’t true. And instead of going for truth, they were going for believable. The evidence – that video, along with the fact no one else in the large crowd at the memorial even seemed to be sweating – took the viability from that lie.
The pneumonia story can’t really be refuted, so the third time was the charm. The press could demand to see X-rays from Friday, which is when the campaign claims Clinton’s doctor diagnosed her. They could ask when she saw the doctor Friday, and where, and how she was able to do all of this while attending campaign events. You know, fact check the claim. But they aren’t going to do that.
They could ask how her doctor managed to not only diagnose her without anyone noticing, but also declare her to not be contagious at the same time, especially when we’re told pneumonia has spread throughout her campaign.
So somehow everyone around her was spreading and catching pneumonia, and not only did the press not notice them dropping like flies, or catch it themselves, Hillary managed to catch a non-contagious version of it. They could ask, but they won’t. The media has its own compulsion – wanting to believe whatever her campaign tells them.
Whether it’s a lie matters less than the fact that only true believers buy any of it. No rational person hears three different explanations, all asserted as the truth at the time, and thinks they’re finally being leveled with.
That’s how the Clintons are; they lie like they breathe – as a reflex. It’s like a muscle they must exercise to prevent atrophy, and they’re running out of “heavy lifts” to lie about, so they lie about anything.
What responsible adult would seek refuge at her daughter’s apartment with two young children while stricken with pneumonia that caused you to pass out only minutes earlier? It’s not an accident Hillary is about as believable as a candidate as Jared from Subway is as a babysitter.
All politicians lie; we know this. But they’re usually lies of overpromising. The Clintons, particularly Hillary, lie because it’s how they’ve gotten into power, how they’ve maintained it, how they’ve gotten rich. It’s not second nature; it is her nature. It’s a compulsion. That’s how to explain so much effort being expended to cover what we’re told was really nothing. If the truth is so innocuous, you don’t work so hard to shield it.
William Safire called Hillary a congenital liar back when Bubba was president
The Clinton lie telling never stops. The Clinton campaign is a joke....it should be titled, “The gang that couldn’t shoot straight”. It certainly does not know what truth is. We got us a new lie teller, the Hillary Clinton doctor. I have had three bad bouts with pneumonia in my life and, not one doctor that treated me made light of it. Pneumonia folks, is a killer...period!!! This Clinton doctor is bought & paid for by the Clinton political machine!!! Fear not, folks. Tjs doctor would sell her soul for a few bucks. You will soon see, what I mean.
It will all come crashing down for the Clinton’s on 9 November if not sooner.
Liars gotta lie, grifters gotta grift, killers gotta kill!!!!
There was a piece posted here a few weeks ago that I thought was insightful on this topic.
If I lie to you — and get away with it — then I’m “smarter” than you. I pulled one over on you. I’m pretty awesome. But, you know, a lot of people do that. Lying well is not a rare skill, so the Clintons lie well, but they have a lot of company.
The real Art is to lie badly. Tell lies when you don’t need to. Tell blatant, obvious, ridiculous lies. If you can do THAT and get away with it, then you must be really special. You have Power. You’re just SO SUPERIOR to the peasants who know that you’re lying and simply can’t do anything about it.
In short: it’s a Ego thing. They lie badly almost on purpose. Just so they can get away with it and laugh at us.
“It will all come crashing down for the Clinton’s on 9 November if not sooner.”
Maybe... The DNC’s recent M.O. has been to replace a candidate if the polls show a lost election heading their way. If it doesn’t happen here, it means they have confidence in their voter fraud to give Reptillary the win, regardless of number of votes assigned to each candidate. Too many conservatives find it easy to say, ‘Fraud can’t steal an election. The ‘People’ wouldn’t allow it’, and then stop thinking about it. It is real and it is dangerous. Romney may have actually won the last election but due to lack of interest by the MSM, the RNC and the ‘People’, the DNC got away with it. Could very well happen this time, too.
Did you hear her phone call with Anderson Cooper on CNN. She said she started feeling better as soon as she got in the air conditioned van and drank some water. Unbelievable.
The Clintons can continue to lie, but they cannot erase the video of Hillary having some sort of convulsive seizure from the minds of the millions who watched her.
Aaaahhhhh.......No.......
If you lie all the time, no one will ever be able to unravel enough of it to get to what's real and what's a lie...add speculation by others to that soup and you can't get enough people to pay attention long enough to find the carrots in the recipe and ........that way no one ever knows who you GENUALLY are.....in essence you become an enigma.
The Clinton motto “Why tell a white lie when a real whopper will do”.
Sorry, Huma. Barry the muslim already beat you to the punch.
Good point.
Hillary! couldn’t tell the truth to save her soul......if she had one.
I hope whomever took that video is watching their back, they could end up being an Arkancide victim.
Didn't hear that, but it's hilarious. Did Cooper at least smirk or roll his eyes?
The Hag hasn't even a shred of any credibility left within her own party or the Media at this point. The "Defending-Hitlery's-Lies-Fatigue-Factor" is taking a toll on her minions.
It is NOT human nature to lie 110% of the time. NOR defending it 110% of the time. Even many (ok, some) Dems have pangs of guilt and a conscience and believe in God's Judgment or Karma. I've got a feeling millions will be defecting from Hitlery camp during this election. They may not like Trump, but Hitlery is...evil reincarnate.
Damage is done.
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