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Please respect our republishing guidelines – Click Here One of the cardinal rules in responding effectively to insults is to never repeat a charge when denying it. If someone calls you a sexual predator, he is just waiting for you to say, “I am not a sexual predator.” The very restatement of the charge by the accused adds weight to the accusation, no matter its veracity. This is particularly true in politics , a realm where perception becomes reality. And in an age when every word stated by a politician is run through the wringer of social media critique, it sends the message that there must be something to it, or else you would have simply laughed it off – instead of choosing to repeat and deny it.
There were two particularly infamous instances of repeating charges that came back to haunt the politicians who uttered them. Christine O’Donnell, running for the U.S. Senate in Delaware in 2012, tried to dispel wild rumors from her opponent that she was a witch by running an ad in which she declared, “I am not a witch.” She lost badly. More famously, President Richard Nixon actually set up and knocked down his own straw man as Watergate was closing in on him, saying, “people have got to know whether their president is a crook,” and then presenting a sound bite for the ages, repeated millions of times since: “I am not a crook.” He resigned shortly thereafter. For more than two years now, ever since he initiated his third run for the White House, it appeared obvious to many if not most that Joe Biden is not the same man with whom the country had become familiar over his lifetime in Washington. It was hard to miss the signs. He was moving tentatively and talking slower. He was more forgetful, quicker to anger, and often seemed confused. And so the whispers began. Is this man who wants to be president no longer firing on all cylinders? Is he in the early stages of dementia? Is he senile? You can’t make a diagnosis based […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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JD Rucker