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Tue 04 Apr 2009State where all standards are merely aspirational
ARE THEY telling lies or are they simply ignorant of the truth? And which is worse? These are the questions that face the hapless journalist trying to fathom grossly misleading statements by Government Ministers. If they’re lying, there is a certain bleak comfort in the notion that they actually know what’s going on and are sufficiently in control of events to deliberately mislead the public, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
If they’re so disconnected from reality that they actually believe the nonsense they come out with, their honour is saved but their incompetence is revealed.
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