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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> If you are so righteous a Mormon then why do you accept her continuous
> string of lies about the bridge?  It is a lie repeated over 27 times now
> even after being exposed for the lie it is.

People believe what they want to believe, they find some way to
justify things. I was listening to PBS today and they were discussing
just this. The commentator said that basically this is how it is in
politics today. The politician states a lie, then the facts are
reported. The politician just keeps telling the lie. For the most part
it works, people base their decisions on the first impression.

I guess this is mostly true when politicians make up a story that
people want to believe in. They all do it, but seems like conservative
religious people that fall for it more than not. I used to think that
people were smarter than that, that they'd see right through it. They
aren't.

Rob - Va