It’s Perfectly Acceptable and Necessary for Politians to Lie
Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies
Get a load of this: A recent Strathclyde University political science study reported in Great Britain’s Observer newspaper concluded – as utterly inconceivable as this must seem to all of us – that
POLITICIANS LIE!
Now that you’ve picked yourself up off the floor after fainting in shock, consider this: The author of this government-funded study concludes that for politicians, telling lies to the public and to political rivals is a perfectly acceptable and necessary aspect of the job
And he suggests that politicians lie because voters and journalists are ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS. This is what people are supposed to do in a democracy! Voters can only know if elected officials are doing what they were elected to do – in other words, keeping their promises – if they’re probed, tested, and challenged. And it’s asking questions that can help protect us from the lies we know are cascading off The Hill – especially those governing our health care options
What’s this have to do with your health? Plenty – because if politicians in this country were left unscrutinized by folks like yours truly and others like me in the media (even though we’re a miniscule minority), the FDA and drug companies would be left unchecked to define your medical options and health care as they see fit
Glad I’m not a teenager anymore,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
