Lies our Mothers never warned us about

It seems as if most politicians lie or don't tell us the whole truth.  Democrats seems to be the worst offenders. They also get smug, disrespectful and condescending when they have a different opinion...take Joe Biden and the President during Monday's debate. The bullies of the liberal left world loved it and had both of them winning those debates.

Most of the media seem to lie also and the worst part of that is, the media are left and liberal and Obama supporters. They don't want to acknowledge any conservative view at least in an unbiased way. They love to focus on one gaffe and beat it to death.

The more immediate the news media, the more likely they are to lie. Think local. They have their own political agendas. Here's a hint--Suzanne Mulvehill was behind the casino rehabilitation and constructing a building that everyone had complained about for decades and ensuring it stayed at the same location it has been since 1922. Christopher McVoy was not in office when that vote was taken. Suzanne Mulvehill is not responsible for inferior products that were used to construct it no matter how politically twisted the media message.

You've heard the expression that" nice guys finish last." Well, Perkle on Politics says that the reasons politicians lie are because the public doesn't want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. The one who says what the public wants to hear wins the election. In Lake Worth it is the high cost of electric and everyone has been screaming about it.  Two candidates are running and one of them tells the truth and the other says what the public wants to hear.  Thus, and there are exceptions to this, if you want to win an election, you better start lying or exaggerating because the guy who's telling you the truth doesn't have a chance. Think District 2 candidates and the PB Post's total lack of knowledge on the electric utility and its endorsement today.

Hopefully we're too smart for that in Lake Worth and Perkle on Politics is wrong even if  some candidates, their supporters and the media lie to us especially about selling the electric utility with NO analysis or data of any kind, no vote from the dais to even explore it, no offer on the table from any company and using a high rate as a bogus reason why businesses are not locating here--just emotions over any common sense.

We know why politicians lie. But why does the Media lie? Answer:  Because they can. They love to sound like they know what they're talking about and the rest of us need to follow.

In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

"People will believe what the media tells them they believe."
 ~ George Orwell

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
~ Richard Salient, former President of CBS News

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
~ Willam Casey, CIA Director, 1981

"Tell a LIE often enough, loud enough, and long enough, and people will believe you.
 ~ Adolph Hitler

Free press and free speech are guaranteed rights under our constitution. Our forefathers forgot to protect us from a lying press and a lying politician and that is a pity.