{"id":1212,"date":"2005-08-17T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/08\/the_bullshitterinchief\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:07:04","slug":"the_bullshitterinchief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/08\/the_bullshitterinchief.html","title":{"rendered":"THE BULLSHITTER-IN-CHIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400081033\/qid=1124283391\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/104-3349825-0038301\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LAURAPENNY's book.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/LAURAPENNY%27s%20book.jpg\" width=90 align=right border=0 \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/critics\/atlarge\/articles\/050822crat_atlarge\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Jim Holt&#8217;s critique<\/strong><\/font><\/a> on the difference between the liar and the bullshitter has forced us to revise a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/new_antonomasia.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>recent  policy decision<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Not to put too fine a point on it, Holt quotes a &#8220;subtle and useful&#8221; distinction offered by author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400081033\/qid=1124283391\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/104-3349825-0038301\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Laura Penny<\/strong><\/font><\/a> that summarizes an essential theme of Harry Frankfurt&#8217;s current best seller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691122946\/qid=1124283391\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-3349825-0038301\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;On Bullshit.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> Namely this: &#8220;The liar still cares about the truth. The bullshitter is unburdened by such concerns.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691122946\/qid=1124283391\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-3349825-0038301\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HARRY FRANKFURT'S book.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/HARRY%20FRANKFURT%27S%20book.jpg\" width=90 align=left border=0 \/><\/a> Taking that distinction to heart and applying it to the current president of the United States, from here on in we will refer to him as the Bullshitter-in-Chief, not the Liar-in-Chief. We regret the error.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}