Don't reporters, too, see themselves as saviors of a kind, salvaging truth out of a mess of lies, rescuing stories that would otherwise be lost?
A person has to remember what the lie is in order to remember to weave other lies around it until a whole tangled mess of lies are built and may come tumbling down if the truth ever comes out.
Of course, they stress, this has absolutely nothing to do with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's recent 10,000 word expose in the London Review of Books, which tore the bloated Lovecraftian mess of lies and contradictions that was the official story of the bin Laden raid to ribbons.
By pretending to be someone you're not, you will only be digging yourself deeper and deeper into a mess of lies and self hatred.
Legree, who shows an unexpected taste for debate on high matters ("This yer religion is all a mess of lying trumpery, Tom. I know all about it. Ye'd better hold to me; I'm somebody, and can do something!"), can no longer touch Tom where he lives.
Before things got too Days of Our Lives, I grabbed my cousin and said, "She's just really stoned, dumbass, you just saw her blast that J with us!" She calmed herself, as my mom had, but there was still the critical mess of my aunt lying there, now wailing vague statements of religious devotion.
In the midst of this mess lies a reasonable group of players quite capable of staying up.
The locals, who speak Swahili, the lingua franca of east Africa, look east rather than to Kinshasa, their capital, nearly 1,600km 1,0000 miles) to the west.In any event, eastern Congo, a squalid mess of armed groups and deprivation, lies beyond the Congolese government's control, as Mr Kagame often points out in exasperation on his Twitter account.
Those copycat handsets may look and feel just like our precious smartphones, but under that back cover lies a mess of unreliable technology that, as we've seen here, can be dangerous.
Beneath this swirl of contradiction and swagger lay a mess of questions about the legal justification for Obama's war.
Dad: "Hey, you're all done?" Dad: "You finished cleaning up that huge mess of toys?" Dad: "... Are you lying?" Me: What do you think you're doing?
