Reply #12: While there is some logic to that position... [View All]

[ljm2002]

...we should remember this about big lies: they are easier to pull off because people cannot / will not believe that anyone would ever tell such a big lie. So the lie gets a pass, and those who point out the lie are branded as crazy.

It might be more effective for us to continually pick on the smaller lies, because it is easier to get people to acknowledge those lies -- especially ones like this where it is easy to show the lie, and there is no way for the Prez and his minions to throw sand in our eyes by saying "bad intelligence" or "bureaucratic infighting" or all of the other ways they obfuscate and hide the truth.

If we can show enough of the little lies, then we have eroded his credibility (I know, I know, as if he had any to begin with -- but there is that troubling 29% who still seem to like the nincompoop) more effectively than by ranting about Iraq being a war based on lies -- even knowing that that is by far the more important issue.

We really do need to learn to use psychological truth, not just logical truth.