[BelegStrongbow]

Well, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but even in the last debacle, the problem was disunion on the right rather than effective propaganda from the left. You say rightly that their error is to always assume that clear smooth politicking will generate success.

If that were so then plenty of products that have long since gone into the dumper would be avidly used. They aren't, even when the campaign to promote them was well-chosen and well-thought-out. If you live by selling the sizzle, then in the end, the steak has to actually HAVE the sizzle.

[Stoat]

Well, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but even in the last debacle, the problem was disunion on the right rather than effective propaganda from the left. You say rightly that their error is to always assume that clear smooth politicking will generate success.

If that were so then plenty of products that have long since gone into the dumper would be avidly used. They aren't, even when the campaign to promote them was well-chosen and well-thought-out. If you live by selling the sizzle, then in the end, the steak has to actually HAVE the sizzle.

And his perspective is to be expected, because, after all, his business and his entire life is built around spin and the creation of spin.

He may not even understand the concept of honesty and truth anymore, as to recognize such constructs at all would be an impediment toward his doing his job effectively.