在我们所有人心里,都有些东西让我们拒绝相信,有人竟可以瞪眼对着镜头或我们的眼睛,不知羞耻地撒谎。希特勒(Hitler)曾主张,“弥天大谎”能骗得过普通人,是因为“他们从未想过撒大谎,他们也不相信别人放肆到如此无耻地扭曲真相的地步”。有谁会认为,兰斯•阿姆斯特朗(Lance Armstrong)情绪激动地反复否认吸毒,不是使他的谎言延续那么久的原因之一?
Nixon welcomed the Watergate investigation because “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook”. He had triumphed by going on the offensive in a tight spot before. Whatever his ethical shortcomings, he was a brilliant speaker. Take his 1952 “Checkers Speech” – delivered to counter criticism of an election-expense slush fund when he was running for vice-president. He used the accusation to turn the tables on his accusers: making himself a spokesman for the honest common man against the corrupt Washington establishment. His wife Pat didn’t own a mink coat, he said, but “a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she’d look good in anything.”
尼克松欢迎水门(Watergate)调查,是因为“民众必须知道他们的总统到底是不是一个骗子”。他以前曾在困境中采取攻势,结果取胜了。无论他在道德上有何瑕疵,不可否认他是一个杰出的演说家。以他在1952年发表的“跳棋演讲”为例,那次演讲是为了回应他竞选副总统时一个竞选费用小金库招致的批评。他巧妙利用对方的指控猛轰对方:把自己包装成诚实普通人的代言人,对抗着华盛顿的体制内人士。他说,他妻子帕特(Pat)连一件貂皮大衣都没有,只有“一件像样的共和党式布外衣。我总是告诉她,她穿任何衣服都很靓丽。”
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