Flattery

Me, last May: Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me 87,453 times, shame on me.

Note to mainstream media: there's this concept called credibility. The way it works is that the extent to which you give credence to what someone tells you today is based upon the truth value of things they told you yesterday. Shall I repeat that for you? Use smaller words?

Ace political cartoonist Mike Luckovich, last week:




His lower total suggests that he must be applying a more exacting standard as to what constitutes being fooled.