I have also worked for large corporations and was, on a couple of occasions, asked to present the positive and minimize the negative...not often, but I was and I did....
There is nothing wrong with this at all! It is completely legit and often is even proper to accent the positive and not the negative. I am surprised you've only had to do this on a "couple of occasions". Your company must either have had objectively rosy news for everyone all the time, or it no longer exists because your people lost confidence in it.
Companies are always going through pain of some sort - even during good times. It often is bad leadership to bluntly weigh the negative in such a way that it falsely competes with the positive. I never did this unless by focusing on the negative we could extract from it some positive change. Otherwise, if it couldn't be helped, and if it could not help, we dealt with it and then pushed our strengths. There is nothing wrong with this.
Clarke did something altogether different. He just flatly lied, and when told about his lies he claimed Bush "made" him do it. The guy is corrupt. Now he is selling a book and you actually want to believe him because he testified to a bunch of leftists under oath. The guy has no principles.
Rice made the same kind of pitch tonight on 60 Minutes.
Yah! Rice is cooly and effectively doing to Clarke and the Democrats what Clarke tried (but failed) to do her and the Republicans. This is why Rice is in the White House and Clarke is angrily selling a book of lies. As Coulter says, Dick Clarke is just a career chair-warmer who became angry that a black woman beat him out of his job. HAHAHA!
Personal corruption, my ass.....
Undoubtedly, but we've already talked Sodomites and quite frankly, I have won on this issue too easily and frequently to enjoy doing it again.
The only personal corruption I see around here is the RW who can't refute the claims of Clarke but only attack his character.. ... a sure sign of resignation....
His is a character that attacked itself. We have him on tape, dontcha know... |
