{"id":45,"date":"2006-01-22T06:25:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-01-22T06:25:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T13:25:54","slug":"look-whos-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/45\/look-whos-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who’s talking!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Republic<\/a> wants you to know that, “Little lies lead to big trouble”:<\/p>\n

Because once truth becomes malleable, once lies become facts and facts become lies, then we make ourselves suckers for every con man, every flimflam artist, every propagandist whose schemes may range from petty theft to the takeover of an entire body politic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see, if we’re not careful, we could end up with a newspaper that actively campaigns for insane boondoggles, that puts an openly lying socialist<\/a> on its business and editorial pages, that distorts the positions of anyone daring to oppose it.<\/p>\n

This is a free country – for now. The Republic<\/i> has every right to campaign for every possible form of idiotic, liberty-devouring 19th century social planning. It has every right to be the cesspit of tendentious corruption it has become. The press is free, so it even has the right to pretend to a virtue it has long since forsaken by decrying in others the persitent deception it has long since habituated – most especially on its editorial pages.<\/p>\n

But it has no right to expect anyone to take it seriously…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Republic wants you to know that, “Little lies lead to big trouble”: Because once truth becomes malleable, once lies become facts and facts become lies, then we make ourselves suckers for every con man, every flimflam artist, every propagandist whose schemes may range from petty theft to the takeover of an entire body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/49\/look-whos-talking-part-ii-revenge-of-the-shiny-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":45,"position":0},"title":"Look who’s talking, Part II: Revenge of The Shiny People","author":"Odysseus","date":"January 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"When Jon Talton lied in the Arizona Republic, telling you that Maroney's Dry Cleaning store on Central Avenue had not been killed by Trolley construction, when it fact it had, I wrote this:The trolley is killing long-established businesses up and down its route, and the green-cheese-heads who inflicted it on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":356,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/356\/zillowcom-bites-the-wrong-bullet-in-preference-to-telling-one-simple-truth-it-will-propagate-thousands-of-tiny-lies\/","url_meta":{"origin":45,"position":1},"title":"Zillow.com bites the wrong bullet: In preference to telling one simple truth, it will propagate thousands of tiny lies . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a simple fact, one of the most important reasons why homeowners need professional representation to market their houses: Diogenes himself could not find an objective seller. 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