• It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

    Rick Perlstein: It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.
    "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.