In a speech in Alguquedrque, NM, in 1952, Adlai Stevenson said:
"Those who corrut the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
Sarah Palin tweets that she never advocted deep sea drilling and that the oil spill is the fault of enviromentalists who forced the oil companies to drill in dangerous waters.
Lush Lamebrain, Bill O’Reilly, and Glen Beck lie wth impunity.
Candidates for office claim military records that never were. Elected officials have sex with staffers.
It’s the small lies, the small distortions that hurt.
Democracy is most twarted,
By truths only slightly distorted.
Citizen Poet 