Comments on: The Market for Mendacity http://www.wickenburg-az.com/2008/11/the-market-for-mendacity/ Your independent source of information about Wickenburg, AZ. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike Botula http://www.wickenburg-az.com/2008/11/the-market-for-mendacity/#comment-670 Mike Botula Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:18:12 +0000 http://www.wickenburg-az.com/?p=919#comment-670 I used to read Don Dedera's columns in the AZ Republic. Always thought he was one of the best writers going. It's been 44 years since I left Phoenix and I'm glad that Dedera keeps on ticking. Arizona has a tremendous advantage in that the State Official Liar - Jim Cook appears to be an old cowboy. California's Official Liar is in the Governor's office. Bless you both. I used to read Don Dedera’s columns in the AZ Republic. Always thought he was one of the best writers going. It’s been 44 years since I left Phoenix and I’m glad that Dedera keeps on ticking. Arizona has a tremendous advantage in that the State Official Liar – Jim Cook appears to be an old cowboy. California’s Official Liar is in the Governor’s office.

Bless you both.

]]> By: don dedera http://www.wickenburg-az.com/2008/11/the-market-for-mendacity/#comment-669 don dedera Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.wickenburg-az.com/?p=919#comment-669 Jim, in checking out the new search engine BING, my Nancy found this, and I was most pleased. Now 80 and crawled down an old mine shaft at Payson nobody can or wants to reach me, and I do not complain. I reckon you pitifully inept young stretchers of truth have a new hero, Joe Wilson, member of Congress from South Carolina. The other night he disappointed me hugely by forgoing usage of his Southern idiom in a primal outburst in the House. He could have better blurted, "YOU LIE, YOU-ALL!" But no, the Carolinian limited his indictment to the man with the mike and teleprompter. To me the most interesting outcome has been the deployment of the racial card. Sure. And Walt Disney was a hater of Italians in portraying Pinnochio with a tree branch growing from the middle of his face. For the best part of a year now we have witnessed under the heading of hope/change/transparency a charismatic television star in a real life performance of the ultimate in personal and public dissimmulation: "He once caught himself telling the truth, but managed to lie his way out of it." Anyway, I'm glad you got the DWHall item and that it found a home next to Sarge. Sarge is a spiritual kindsman to Ol Drag, my first dog. Drag was born without legs, and Mom liked that, when I brought him home from the pound...he couldn't walk muddy tracks into her kitchen. I carried him everywhere in a wheelbarrow. One day he jumped a rabbit and damn near ran my legs off. Did you hear about the old fellow at the Mall? He sidled up to A DROP DEAD gorgeous young lady and asked her to talk to him. "Uh, okay, I guess," said she, "but why?" He said, "As usual I am trying to find my wife. And invariably if I am seem talking to a girl as lovely as you, my wife immediately appears." Jim, you write well. Always have. And that's the truth. Your friend Sweet Don D Jim, in checking out the new search engine BING, my Nancy found this, and I was most pleased. Now 80 and crawled down an old mine shaft at Payson nobody can or wants to reach me, and I do not complain. I reckon you pitifully inept young stretchers of truth have a new hero, Joe Wilson, member of Congress from South Carolina. The other night he disappointed me hugely by forgoing usage of his Southern idiom in a primal outburst in the House. He could have better blurted, “YOU LIE, YOU-ALL!” But no, the Carolinian limited his indictment to the man with the mike and teleprompter. To me the most interesting outcome has been the deployment of the racial card. Sure. And Walt Disney was a hater of Italians in portraying Pinnochio with a tree branch growing from the middle of his face. For the best part of a year now we have witnessed under the heading of hope/change/transparency a charismatic television star in a real life performance of the ultimate in personal and public dissimmulation: “He once caught himself telling the truth, but managed to lie his way out of it.” Anyway, I’m glad you got the DWHall item and that it found a home next to Sarge. Sarge is a spiritual kindsman to Ol Drag, my first dog. Drag was born without legs, and Mom liked that, when I brought him home from the pound…he couldn’t walk muddy tracks into her kitchen. I carried him everywhere in a wheelbarrow. One day he jumped a rabbit and damn near ran my legs off.
Did you hear about the old fellow at the Mall? He sidled up to A DROP DEAD gorgeous young lady and asked her to talk to him. “Uh, okay, I guess,” said she, “but why?” He said, “As usual I am trying to find my wife. And invariably if I am seem talking to a girl as lovely as you, my wife immediately appears.”
Jim, you write well. Always have. And that’s the truth. Your friend Sweet Don D

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