Straw man Mitt Romney describes his love of varmint hunting
Have you ever met a pathological liar before? I in this video Mitt Romney sounds just like one to me. What they'll do is speak what begins as a small fib, but then they can't stop talking, as if they can make you forget their lie if they follow it up immediately with 10 minutes of talking.
If asked if they'd ever been to outer space before, a liar would answer, "Yeah... sure, I've been to space before. I mean, ya know, the nature of space is that it's all around us. It's everywhere! There's outer space, and then there are all the spaces in between everything else. I don't believe in the Big Bang theory. No, sir, I do not. I think life's too complicated and beautiful for that. But yeah, science and religion are at odds on that one. There's no question about it...."
Once, where I work, the organization hired a consultant to interview everyone on the staff to attempt to figure out what we as a group -- you know, that teambuilding nonsense -- could do to believe we're happier about our jobs and to get more work done in less time. The consultant was a police detective in a past career but worked as a business consultant now.
His approach was to let people hang themselves. He'd ask a question like, "How do you feel about working here?" and then he'd just sit there staring at you quietly for an uncomfortably long time. After 20-30 seconds of staring at this man, to fill the awkward silence, or perhaps just because people are stupid that way, everyone would start to talk about their jobs, their coworkers, how they're all underpaid and underappreciated -- we said things that none of us could believe we'd ever dare say under the circumstances. But we did.
Either Mitt Romney is being interviewed by that same former police detective, or he's a pathological liar.
- August 12, 2007
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