Brash Hypocrisy Doesn't Begin to Describe It

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/26/14111/9461

Brash Hypocrisy Doesn't Begin to Describe It

by BooMan
Sat May 26th, 2012 at 02:01:11 PM EST

I'd go quite a bit further than Jon Lovett was willing to go and say that Lanny Davis is such a horrible human being that his mere existence was more than sufficient reason to work to defeat Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency. Lanny Davis makes Dick Morris look like an exemplar of moral rectitude. If you set out to create something evil, you could use Lanny Davis as your template. He does more than embody everything that is wrong with Washington DC. He actually makes Washington DC worse. Compared to Lanny Davis, Jack Abramoff is a paragon of honesty. If Lanny Davis is moving his lips, the world is at the very moment going dark. If there is a devil, Lanny Davis is his servant. And I've got no sympathy for that.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/the-brash-hypocrisy-of-lanny-davis/257701/

The Brash Hypocrisy of Lanny Davis
Jon Lovett - Jon Lovett served for three years as a speechwriter to President Barack Obama in the White House. He now writes jokes, among other things.

By Jon Lovett

May 25 2012, 2:32 PM ET 88

Guys, we need to talk about Lanny Davis. Let me update you on what you've missed:

First, Lanny Davis spent the last decade or so selling influence in Washington, using various platforms -- often without disclosing his financial interest -- to take up the causes of for-profit colleges, chemical companies, and even violent dictators and a military junta.

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Washington is filled with people making other people's arguments for money. Anyone trying to do anything of good purpose is in a constant struggle to keep from drowning in the river of steaming bullshit served up by lobbyists and politicians and pundits and PR firms. They bend statistics, they do impressions of people who believe what they say, and all the while the country burns. And it is the height of arrogance to decry what's happened to our politics when you are a bonded practitioner of what's happened to our politics.

You want to be a pitchman for warlords? You want to carry the Devil's water in Washington? Go for it. But just don't tell me how to fucking talk.