{"id":352873,"date":"2018-03-19T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T07:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everybodys-lying-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T07:29:56","slug":"everybodys-lying-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everybodys-lying-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody\u2019s Lying &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity once.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/eu\/10874230\/Jean-Claude-Juncker-profile-When-it-becomes-serious-you-have-to-lie.html\">He famously said<\/a>, \u201cWhen things get serious, you have to lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare in politics to get that kind of honesty from a politician, especially one currently in office.\u00a0 But, Juncker\u2019s statement shouldn\u2019t be a surprise to anyone who is even a semi-serious political observer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why I find it funny that the Democrats and Antifa-Left get so bent out of shape when Donald Trump exaggerates or outright lies.\u00a0 To him it\u2019s a tactic.\u00a0 Catching Donald Trump in a falsehood is like trying to ladle water with a sieve.<\/p>\n<p>So, by the Juncker Maxim, things must be getting very serious because the amount and type of lies being thrown around by people who are supposed to know better have been staggering.<\/p>\n<p>To the point that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, \u201cI simply don\u2019t have any normal terms left to describe all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov has been the world\u2019s most effective diplomat over the past few years, effectively talking to and cutting deals with people who should hate him and Russia\u2019s policies.\u00a0 What it highlights is that Lavrov and his boss, Vladimir Putin, have been effective simply because they make a deal and keep to it.<\/p>\n<p>They are the opposite of Mr. Juncker.\u00a0 When things get serious they become honest, speaking with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that comes from having a single administration in power for the past 17 years.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to keep to agreements when those in power don\u2019t change.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecipherbrief.com\/fault-sides-25-years-north-korea-negotiations\">The U.S.\u2019s diplomatic history with North Korea,<\/a>\u00a0for example, highlights the problems of shifting domestic political winds in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/thomas-luongo\/everybodys-lying\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity once.\u00a0\u00a0He famously said, \u201cWhen things get serious, you have to lie.\u201d Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying. It is rare in politics to get that kind of honesty from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}