"The Weekly Standard" Fact Checks Claim That Woodward Admits Lying In His Book, "Fear"

"The Weekly Standard" Fact Checks Claim That Woodward Admits Lying In His Book, "Fear"

https://www.weeklystandard.com/holmes-lybrand/fact-check-woodward-admits-he-lied-in-his-new-book

Alan: It is remarkable how many people tell whole cloth lies, frequently in pursuit of political advantage, but often for no apparent reason other than the self-amusement of suckering people with complete fabrication. 

"Putting one over on people" is embedded in the same picaresque mindset that underlies April Fool's pranks.

Sooo many people "beg" to be deceived that it becomes perversely challenging to prove oneself able to deceive them.

There is "pecking order" satisfaction in demonstrating one's ability to create another person's "reality" by replacing truth with fiction.