The Art of Lying

I just watched Louisiana gov Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech (Yes, a little late I know. I adore YouTube). I was absolutely infuriated. How can Politicans present just blatent bull shit to the public and get away with it? Rebublicans are the masters of bull. Indeed, I am stating the obvious, or so I would like to think....but no. Half the country still supports the Republican party. Why? People don't seem to mind that they are being exploited and lied to because I suppose it is too much trouble to question any one who sounds as sweet and folksy as Bobby Jindal.

In his speech, Jindal spoke about his parents, immigrants from India (or as he says "a distant land"), as if they came to the US in a cramped ship with nothing but the clothing on their backs. His father had "SEEN extreme poverty" and struggled to find a job. He may have seen it but did he actually expierence it? I don't know, but that is what Bobby would like us to assume regardless. Many of us have SEEN poverty. That doesn't mean we have felt it. Bobby decides to neglect the fact that his father came to the United States to attend Graduate School and his mother now works as an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor. I suppose the fact that his parents are well educated would make him seem like an elitist and would make his struggle to appear like an average Joe who simply worked hard to achieve his position as a leader in the US an uphill battle.

Now that he has made the viewing audience believe that he can actually relate to their expierence or that he might actually care about their lives he moves on to actually attempt to talk about policy. I say attempt because he seems to be having quite a bit of trouble actually saying anything that makes any sense.

...For more I give you Rachel Maddow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3u11VC7s7M