You probably know this old chestnut of a joke: \u201cHow can you tell when a politician is lying? When his (or her) lips move.\u201d <\/p>\n
Here’s my own slightly less cynical lie detection technique: <\/p>\n
How do you know that a politician is lying? The word ‘frankly’ comes out of his\/her mouth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina seem especially fond of the word ‘frankly,’ but they’re certainly not alone in having that ‘tell.’<\/p>\n
Pols frequently telegraph lies.
\nFor example, I’m quick to surmise
\nThat a whopper’s about
\nTo be told by some lout
\nWhen he uses the ‘frankly’ disguise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You probably know this old chestnut of a joke: \u201cHow can you tell when a politician is lying? When his (or her) lips move.\u201d Here’s my own slightly less cynical lie detection technique: How do you know that a politician is lying? The word ‘frankly’ comes out of his\/her mouth. Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,2618,1550,21,20,6,1120,7,3,9,17],"tags":[192,2928,2897,194,309,314,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12029,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions\/12029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}