And lo on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:43:19 -0000, Patrick Elliott  
<sel### [at] rraznet> did spake, saying:

> In article <op.t5snsscwc3xi7v@news.povray.org>,
> phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk says...
>> Apart from the "make thing up" bit yep. If you have to make something up
>> to fill the gaps then you can be accused of lying; much more  
>> satisfactory
>> to be misinterpreted instead.
>>
> Ah, but only by people that *know* what actually exists in the gaps. The
> trick is to find some legitimate gap that they can't fill either, then
> stuff a purple pokadot unicorn into it, or what ever the equivalent is
> in the subject you are trying to spin your way. If it "sounds" like you
> have an answer, while the other side honestly says they don't, but at
> looking, a lot of people that don't know any better will fall for
> "your" version of it. Well, most people, especially when political
> decisions are involved, don't have a clue what is in the gaps, where
> they are, how big they are, or even if they exist at all, but they got
> one clown up there spinning like a top and insisting they do know that
> gaps exist, and they personally, or their team, or what ever, *knows*
> exactly what fits in the hole.

For a professional there are no gaps. You either ignore them as if they  
weren't there, or skip over them as if they were unimportant. If some  
busybody dares point one out you can 'not see it', 'not understand it', or  
'act confused that the questioner can't see the obvious connection'. At  
which point the busybody has to repeat it, explain it, or back-down; which  
offers an opportunity to spin whatever they said into your message or  
ignore it.

> To be clear, the origin of the descriptions I gave are from a book
> written by one of those people that run satire on Comedy Central, so it
> *is* politics that they describe.

Except European politics are, by defintion, more sophisticated with  
greater degrees of subtlety :-P

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Phil Cook

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