OTHERWISE: “Ted Cruz is a liar”: Marco Rubio becomes Cruz’s latest target in South Carolina - Salon.com
Liar, liar, pants on fire used to be a schoolyard taunt - verboten in political speech. But now it is common -. After years of trash talk on talk radio the GOP has so degraded that it is how all the candidates talk. As a trial lawyer even when you had a blatant liar on the stand the word was never used. That was the conclusion you wanted the jury to draw. We never used the word. We prided ourselves on our clever circumlocutions. "Casual disregard for the truth" was one I liked. "In the war on drugs, as in every war, truth is the first casualty" was another one I used. "Lux and veritas - light and truth - that's the motto of Yale University where this witness went to school but we heard little or none of that on the witness stand today". That was much more fun and much more effective than today's broadsides. - gwc
“Ted Cruz is a liar”: Marco Rubio becomes Cruz’s latest target in South Carolina - Salon.com
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