Oh, crap, they're on to meYou can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes
~Eagles
There's a whole lotta shakin' going on in ye olde country. Politician Caught Lying: Shock, Probe, Film at 11. Truthful-to-the-bone reader AJ alerted ENN (Pulling Ourselves Outta the Shit Daily) about a developing story concerning the stunning revelation that the Hungarian PM ("I am not a crook!") and his government have lied with abandon from the second they were elected, and perhaps even from birth. The staff of ENN (Would We Lie to You?) have a hard time digesting this painful revelation (and the fact we've been stuffing ourselves with awesome homemade food all weekend has nothing to do with this. Nothing, I tell you!), and we feel we have lost our innocence today. Politicians lie? Like, a lot? Say it ain't so, Feri baby! We're so shocked we could crawl into the fetal position and hug our teddy bears.
To prevent the total shutdown of our brains due to this painful disillusionment, we did a little research and found that lying must've been around for a long time, given the impressive number of quotes that deal with this art. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election, said Otto von Bismarck, who was clearly a precog. And German philosopher Hannah Arendt had this to contribute: The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. See, we disagree with Hannah here. We think the real trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency is shot to hell when the media gets a hold of tapes where people admit to lying.
This situation is sure to make the citizens of Hungary even angrier than they have been for a while. People had already been calling for the PM's resignation, and some dudes who do business in Pesterzsébet on Wednesdays have already indicated they've had enough of Pinocchio and his pals, and have said very clearly (and coincidentally, also on tape) that if the current bunch of lying liars doesn't step down (so the next bunch of lying liars can have a go at the country, because, hey, Hungary hasn't suffered enough, right?) they will set fire to Budapest. You know, perhaps this is not the best time to build that 8th bridge.
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