Blame Bill Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 If the President can lie, why shouldn’t I?<\/p>\n
It’s an epidemic.\u00c2\u00a0 From Wall Street down to Main Street.\u00c2\u00a0 The truth is for losers.<\/p>\n
Like Floyd Landis.<\/p>\n
Of course Lance Armstrong is doping.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got to dope to win.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s what he’ll say when he’s ultimately caught.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, he’s been caught already, it’s just that somehow he’s managed to wiggle free, to explain away the results.\u00c2\u00a0 But the truth outs.\u00c2\u00a0 Just ask Marion Jones.<\/p>\n
Especially today.\u00c2\u00a0 Where there’s a "paper trail" of evidence miles long online, and it’s impossible to make these major decisions on your own, and someone will ultimately cough up the truth.<\/p>\n
Or, as Bob Dylan so eloquently sang, "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."\u00c2\u00a0 That tells the Landis story.\u00c2\u00a0 He could never regain the title he forfeited at the Tour de France, he kicked and screamed for years and now broke and alone, he finally speaks up.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you can decide whether to believe him, but it would be tough to make up so many facts, and we all know that when you finally admit to yourself that your options are gone, you kick the artifice and tell what you did.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Ted Bundy.\u00c2\u00a0 Just before they were gonna execute him, he confessed to all those murders he’d been denying so emphatically for years.<\/p>\n
Kind of like record sales.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever talk to an indie act?\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve sold 100,000 copies of their album!\u00c2\u00a0 You know, on the road, to fans!<\/p>\n
I don’t believe that.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t believe any statistic a wannabe tells.\u00c2\u00a0 If people are manipulating their MySpace plays, and it’s a jungle out there, you’ve got no choice.\u00c2\u00a0 Or do you?<\/p>\n
The major labels are no better.\u00c2\u00a0 Lying is institutionalized.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t pay royalties, never mind ripping you off blind by keeping your copyrights and recouping at your royalty rate, however low it might be.<\/p>\n
And then there are people like David Geffen.\u00c2\u00a0 Who’ll say what you want to hear now, and fight later.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, I’ll allow public access to the beach in front of my house.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course I’ll open the gate.\u00c2\u00a0 All I need you to do is let me build this monstrosity of a house on the beach and we’ve got a deal!\u00c2\u00a0 And the house gets built, and suddenly, he doesn’t want to open the gate.\u00c2\u00a0 Did he ever want to open the gate?\u00c2\u00a0 Can we believe the excuses he made?<\/p>\n
And it’s no better in politics.\u00c2\u00a0 Did you know Obama wasn’t born in the U.S?\u00c2\u00a0 Yup!\u00c2\u00a0 Show me the birth certificate!\u00c2\u00a0 And even if you do, I’m gonna keep repeating my accusation, because it works for me!<\/p>\n
Fred Durst canceled his shows because he couldn’t sell tickets.\u00c2\u00a0 Same deal with Christina Aguilera.\u00c2\u00a0 Do they really think the ridiculous excuses they made are gonna stick?\u00c2\u00a0 Especially when one can go on ticketmaster.com and check availability?\u00c2\u00a0 Limp Bizkit’s music is equally abhorrent indoors and out.\u00c2\u00a0 Believe me, if we paid them a mil to play on a stadium bill, they’d show up.\u00c2\u00a0 And Christina has been hitless too long.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to maintain paying fans, especially at these prices, when the attraction is Top Forty records.\u00c2\u00a0 We believed in the bands of yore. We believe in neither Bizkit nor Aguilera.\u00c2\u00a0 The former was a moment in time, that we’d rather forget, kind of like Frankie Avalon, but a lot more offensive, and the latter was the best of the late ninety teen acts.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no one in America who doesn’t know this.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless, maybe, it’s the acts themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 No, they know too.<\/p>\n
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