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  1. The talking heads at MSNBC regularly call Trump a liar often pointing out in detail some of his lies. There is no question that Trump lied about his draft dodging days during the Vietnam War. When caught he pivots easily or lies about the previous lies. However, I believe his assertions about Hillary.
    Takes one to know one.

  2. Religious fanaticism’s ‘twin sister’ is ideological fanatism. It is sacrilege to question the dogma.

  3. One must always keep in mind that “true” and “false” have completely different meanings for the left than for the right (as defined in the modern US usage). To a conservative, “true” means “consistent with objectively observable facts;” “false”means “not consistent with objectively observable facts.” To a progressive, “true” means “advances the left’s cause;” “false” means “hinders the left’s cause.”

    Thus, we have Dan Rather’s defense of his phony story about George W. in a movie called “Truth,” we have “Bush lied,” and we have whatever comes out of Barry, Hillary, Harry, Diane, Barbara, Debbie, and the rest of their gang’s mouths.

    Come to think of it, didn’t this all get started at the time of, or even because of, the Spanish Civil War?

  4. A good bit ago, I read a bio of Hellman – can’t find the title of it — but it was fairly critical, and went over her fraud over her supposed friend ‘Julia’. I had always wondered about that, in a mild sort of way, as one of my passing interests when in HS and college was women members of the WWII underground. Why had her good pal ‘Julia’ never turned up in any accounts of WWII derring-do, years after the fact?
    I saw a TV interview with her, where someone asked about that – sometime in the 1970s, it must have been — and it struck me that she gave the same shifty sideways look that my then-toddler-aged daughter did, when about to decide to tell a whopper.
    Then I read the bio … yes, an entitled liar, who counted on her celebrity to make the lies stick.

  5. Reminds me of the story about two old actresses who met at a doorway. The first motioned the other to go through, saying, “Age before beauty”. The second demurred, saying “Pearls before swine”.

    Hellman was the force behind “Candide” and wrote some of the book. The show flopped, but the music survives. We enjoy these two completely different renditions by Broadway star Kristen Chenoweth and Opera star Diana Damrau.

  6. “It certainly wasn’t about the food…”

    Then, there’s always “Hommage to Catalonia”….

    Also not a food good. Nor a travel book.

    (Rather, food for thought as to the utter dishonesty it takes to be a fellow traveler….)

    In any event, it was Orwell’s turning point.

  7. Excellent post…

    Hope you got around to reading the book….

    File under: All roads lead from Orwell.

  8. Lillian Hellman would be pleased that people are still discussing her, over 30 years since her death. Ironic that she, who many regard as a scoundrel, wrote a memoir titled Scoundrel Time. Rest assured Ms. Hellman was referring to people other than herself.

  9. Mary McCarthy ought to be better known than Hellman, and known for better things than this. Namely her perceptive literary essays and excellent novels, many of which scathingly satirize the left and liberal angst and moral relativism – albeit from a conservative leftist standpoint, like Orwell. In those days the left were able to laugh at and criticise themselves; in fact many of the best criticisms of leftist thought and mores came from their own number.

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