{"id":4768,"date":"2018-02-15T05:10:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/why-lie\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T05:10:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:10:28","slug":"why-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/why-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Why lie when the facts are easily established and indeed well known? Hillary is famous for this, but Elizabeth Warren, the &#39;Cherokee&#39; Pinocchio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/opinion\/op_ed\/2018\/02\/graham_liz_s_ancestry_claims_still_pack_of_lies\">takes the cake<\/a>. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?customCSSURL=&amp;disableClickToDel=0&amp;disableEmail=0&amp;disablePDF=0&amp;disablePrint=0&amp;headerImageUrl=&amp;headerTagline=&amp;imageDisplayStyle=block&amp;imagesSize=full-size&amp;source=cs&amp;url_s=uGGCF_~_PdN_~_PcS_~_PcSFCrpGnGBEmBEt_~_PcSryvMnorGu-JnEErA-JrAG-AnGvIr_~_PcS\">Elizabeth Warren Went Native<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/04\/hillary-the-fabulist.html\">Hillary the Fabulist<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It begins:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It has been said of Bill Clinton that he&#39;d rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.&#0160; Hillary continues the family tradition.&#0160; One of her latest untruths is that all four of her grandparents came to the U.S. as immigrants when only one of them did.&#0160; She lied,&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/16\/hillarys-immigrant-grandparents-a-dash-of-tuzla\/\" target=\"_self\">brazenly<\/a>, about something easily checked. To prolong the arboreal metaphor, why would she perch herself far out on a limb so easily sawn off?&#0160; Beats me.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why lie when the facts are easily established and indeed well known? Hillary is famous for this, but Elizabeth Warren, the &#39;Cherokee&#39; Pinocchio, takes the cake. See also Elizabeth Warren Went Native. Related: Hillary the Fabulist.&#0160;It begins: It has been said of Bill Clinton that he&#39;d rather climb a tree and tell a lie than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/why-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Lie?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truthfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}