Mendacity As Principle. The GOP Righest Wing Is Playing Chicken With Another, Deeper, Recession.

by Michael Matheron · September 2, 2011

Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. “Where are you going?” says the first man.

“To Minsk,” says the second.

“To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you’re telling me you’re going to Minsk because you want me to think that you’re really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I know you really are going to Minsk. So why are you lying to me?”
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My next example is taken from an interview granted by George Bernard Shaw to an American journalist (M. E. Wisehart) in 1930, on the eve of a naval conference. When the interviewer called the coming meeting a “disarmament conference,” Shaw strenuously objected: ” ‘Don’t!’ exclaimed Mr. Shaw. ‘Everyone knows it’s an armament conference! . . . The question is not ‘Shall we do away with armament?’ but ‘How much armament?'”

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HUMBUG: deceptive misrepresentation, short of lying, especially by pretentious word or deed, of somebody’s own thoughts, feelings, or attitudes.
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There’s the one about the guy who tells his mother he’s marrying a shiksa (yes I know that’s a racist word; notice the headline) and the mother tells her son about how when they come over they can have her bedroom and her bathroom. What about you mom? the son says, and the mother says, “Don’t worry about me. As soon as we’re hanging up the phone I’m putting my head in the oven.”
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MJM — They, more than others, use rhetoric, as in persuasion, rather than actually demonstrating the efficacy of their economic proposals – they deliberately appeal to their constituents’ latent fears, born of undereducation, not stupidity. These rightwing intellectuals aim to keep their constituents in the dark, and define intelligence in ways that support their own interests, i.e. they support scientific and business education, while often deriding philosophy, humanistic psychology, and, in general, the fine arts. In general, they deem intelligence to include, principally, “facts, figures, and logic,” not those disciplines that require od engender or encourage introspection or rigorous examination of the world in philosophically meaningful ways.
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Nicholas von Hoffman, “If you’re going to a Big Lie badly, you have to pull off the crime, you have to make it a success. George Bush didn’t.”

“MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.” [i.e. claptrap]

“Mendacious” can also imply habitual untruthfulness, think Dan Draper on Mad Men, J.R. or Dallas, Karl Rove of the West Wing.

It also describes a person of group who know they are lying, who understand the abject falseness of a fact yet they treat it as truth so as to hoodwink others, including their own supporters, think GOP, think Tea Party, although, by and large, they are intellectually incaple of this form of mendacity. No offense intended. They are naifs, simple undereducated selfish bigots and abject racists, despite their protests of having many “Mescan” friends.

Revolution – An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

http://www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber/2011/05/09/mendicious-crap/

Includes corporations wheedling for tax breaks to “repatriate” $$$

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