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My favorite part of this piece:
A firm denial from a prepared witness doesn’t mean anything. But a lack of denial, combined with questioning the source, is almost always a lie. Here’s the summary.
Example:
Did you commit the crime?
Liar: “Who told you that?”
Honest Person: “Hell no. I was at work. You can check.”
Prepared/coached Liar: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
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I have a problem with halting speech, so when I was in elementary school, my teachers tried to get me to do some speech therapy. The therapists recommended I get in the habit of thinking through my sentences before saying them. It didn’t help, but it does mean that everything I say sounds like it’s said by a “Prepared/coached Liar”.
…and then there’s pathological liars like Hillary, it’s very easy:
Every word out of her mouth is a lie, even when there’s no need to lie, period, end of story.
See how easy that was? And it didn’t take an entire page to explain it.
The Slick Willie quote there is in an entirely different class than his other examples. The classic Clintonism is a qualified denial. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” depends upon defining sexual relations, who, exactly that woman was, etc. If you can seriously argue the definition of ‘is’ then you can redefine a 9 word statement endlessly.Although, as NoMo points out Hillary is not nearly as good at it as Bill.I’m sure a lot of it is a distainful “you’re not worth the effort of a really good lie”
I think he was being, for once, completely honest. But the “that woman” he referred to was Killery.