That wasn’t so hard, was it?<\/p>\n
David Thompson finishes a post on the absurd apology fallout from the Marcotte gaffe with this beautifully considered and constructed finale<\/a>:<\/p>\n One of the surest ways to erode a person\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s probity is to make them repeat in public, among their peers, things that are unrealistic and absurd; things they know, or suspect, to be untrue. The more incoherent and ridiculous the claim – or apology – and the greater the mismatch with reality, the larger the effect. Bad medicine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That wasn’t so hard, was it? David Thompson finishes a post on the absurd apology fallout from the Marcotte gaffe with this beautifully considered and constructed finale: One of the surest ways to erode a person\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s probity is to make them repeat in public, among their peers, things that are unrealistic and absurd; things they know, or suspect, to be untrue. The more incoherent and ridiculous the claim – or<\/p>\n