Lies, Lies, Lies

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🗓️ 4 December 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A brief history of political lies; a psychological look at why and how we lie; and whether we're really as divided as we think.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:07.0	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. We're gathered here today to celebrate a time-honored tradition.
0:13.2	Well, maybe not celebrate. And maybe not honored. But certainly timely, the political lie. You know, the police say that didn't happen
0:22.9	and all those rumors have been on the internet for some time. So did you misspeak yesterday? I saw it.
0:27.4	You saw that with your own eyes? ABC's George Stephanopoulos last December questioning Donald
0:33.0	Trump on one of his most dubious claims. George did happen. There were people that were cheering in the other side of New Jersey where
0:40.7	you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down.
0:45.2	Ah, the political lie, not new, but somehow more prominent during this election season than ever
0:53.5	before.
1:00.8	Perhaps because one of the chief falsifiers is so unabashedly unrepentant,
1:04.5	much to the frustration of those with the job of challenging him.
1:06.4	NBC's Chuck Todd. Mr. Trump, if I said, well, people have said Mr. Trump's not worth $10 billion.
1:12.3	You would say that was crazy.
1:13.8	You're running for presidents of the United States.
1:17.2	Your words matter.
1:19.4	Truthfulness matters.
1:21.2	Fact-based stuff matters, no?
1:23.2	Make it easy, Chuck.
1:24.1	Just play cool.
1:25.3	Back in December, when we first aired this show, the nation was embarking on the primary election season that would end in Donald Trump being named the presumptive Republican nominee.
1:36.7	Back then, the pundits didn't think he stood much of a chance, in part because of the abundance of his lies.
1:42.5	But he triumphed, and the lies have continued.
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