Reply #13: Do I understand this correctly? [View All]

Scotty went out and lied. But he didn't know he was lying, because he believed that the people telling him the lies were telling the truth, and he didn't inquire too closely about that, for reasons that are unspecified. Certainly, a number of the questions that were swirling around his moon-faced little head had to alert Scotty that he might not be communicating the whole truth in this matter.

But we'll put that aside.

Scotty didn't know he was being fed lies, so he was just repeating what he was told. But apparently, the people above him feeding him the lies weren't really lying, even though they could see that everyone was drawing a totally erroneous conclusion, which was that no one was lying. It was the erroneous conclusion that was at fault, not the lie that led to that conclusion. It just happened that the lie allowed people to believe that nobody in the White House was carrying on treasonable activities, a happy coincidence that had nothing to do with anyone misleading Scotty or lying to the American people.

If the media pundits can make endless hay out of chortling over what the meaning of "is" is (a question that is not self-answering, no matter how much you chortle over it), how do they justify their complete bafflement over being able to ascertain if anyone in this episode is lying?

Is anyone (besides the willing dupes at CNN and Fox) believing a word of this?