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To: Sam who wrote (199337)	8/30/2012 2:23:54 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543200

If your target audience won't bother to check, won't listen to fact checkers elsewhere and strongly wants to believe in the lie, then lying works really, really well in politics. So they do it. The question is, will the cat get out of the bag and drive up their unfavorables with independents even more?

To: Sam who wrote (199337)	8/30/2012 2:30:36 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543200

Remember Lilly Tomlin on the old, old SNL? "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."? Oh dear, I seem to have misremembered again, the bit predates SNL and goes back to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in