I'm writing a pretty important timed essay tomorrow on BULLSH*T, and I need a good political statement to analyze. I was thinking about something from John Kerry (god knows there's enough out there...)
So if anyone could give me a great example of a statement that could be considered bullsh*t, preferrably a political one whether's it from Kerry or not, I would greatly appreciate it.
When I say "bullsh**t," this is what I'm talking about.
"Bullsh**tting involves a kind of bluff. It is closer to bluffing, surely, than to telling a lie. But what is implied concerning its nature by the fact that it is more like the former than it is the latter? Just what is the relevant difference between a bluff and a lie?
Lying and bluffing are both modes of misrepresentation or deception. Now, the concept most central to the distinctive nature of a lie is that of falsity. Bullsh**tting, unlike plain lying, is more especially a matter not of falsity but of fakery."
Nation, I think Kerry in the Elmer Fudd costume with the price tags still on it qualify- quack, quack.
