Just guessing here; don’t know the dude. But “I’m a terrible liar” could mean “I’m working on getting better at it.” Whether or not that is the case, owning up to his lies allows “humble” appearances before the cameras. Is this really news? (Apologies to occamscoin up thread for repeating what he said.)
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“Well, I’ll humor you this,” Santos responded. “I ran in 2020 for the same exact seat for Congress and I got away with it then… Stupid.”
“Well that’s honest, stupid,” Morgan said. “So you thought, actually, that they’re not gonna find out?”
sigh
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Again, before you get yourself in a uproar thinking he’s admitted anything, he hasn’t.
He doesn’t regret lying, not for one second.
He regrets that he didn’t do it better and got caught.
It’s all part of the same scam. Sociopaths are brilliant at appearing to give a fuck and be contrite when they see no other way out. Now comes the “george santos” rehabilitation tour.
Fuck this fucking fuck.
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It’s not that he lies because he has some sad pitiable personality defect. He deliberately lies for attention and money. He conned people. It’s not just an “oopsie!” He defrauded people repeatedly, made a living doing it. In the days the cult of trump, of course he thought he could get away with it, because he’s been profiting from it all his life.
The question is, will he be able to just hope to sweep it all under the rug and continue to get paid a salary for a job he didn’t earn?
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The structure of the House commands Performance Art, hence the legislative power attributed to it is focused more.
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He’s a proficient liar, is what he is.
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We need to talk about McCarthy and his bromance with Tucker.
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Yeah - the past is the past, let’s look forward, forget about all my old lies, I got new ones to tell. Just keep paying me while I dream up a new scam.
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“… continue to get paid a salary for a job he didn’t earn;” and isn’t doing, I might add.
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Will we see a replay of this horrible event?
The Caning of Charles Sumner , or the Brooks–Sumner Affair , occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. The attack was in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including pro-slavery South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks. The beating nearly killed Sumner and contributed significantly to the country’s polarization over the issue of slavery. It has been considered symbolic of the “breakdown of reasoned discourse”[1] and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
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It’s the Producers Principle. He grifted and conned people in 2020 to get money without any expectation of winning, banking whatever he (didn’t) declare on his financial disclosure forms, but because he lost, no one audited the accounts. You can make more money from a flop than a success (and no one pays attention).
Winning was never part of the plan, but like Trump, once he won, his ego wouldn’t let him back down and his lying just carried on as if he could baffle everyone with bullshit while all eyes were on him.
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Knowing Piers Morgan he was probably more interested in staring at his reflection in the camera lens.
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Oh goody … a Santos/Devolder fix
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Morgan focusing on the lies to distract from the fact that Santos is also a thief.
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Of course, now he can claim he “admitted” to what everyone already knew and you’re the problem by refusing to move on from the past.
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Yes. He has some tall explaining to do. Why he was able to get away with that was journalistic malpractice.
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GAH!
(Yep. Complete sentence.)
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I might also add that immediately after Jan 6, McCarthy said things about Trump’s reprehensible behavior 180 degrees differently than a few days later at MAL.
More malpractice…and THAT time, Rachel Maddow was expecting more actual journalism to kick in.
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Define “better”. A better person or a better liar. I vote for #2.
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Sounds like some reputation fixer told him that admitting that he is a “terrible liar” would somehow be redemptive. "Terrible liar " could mean that he is terrible at high quality lying or that he is a terrible person who tells lies. Considering his shamelessness and glaring pathology, I am going with the first.
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