By virtue of being a
bullshitter and not a liar, it is still true that the messenger aims to "get away with something." It is also possibly true that "although it is produced without concern for the truth, it need not be false." In many ways, this description fits the way war was sold, especially when one considers this line from Frankfurt: " [the bullshitter] does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly.
On chickenshit
Dad wasn't angry at Uncle Dan for playing the
bullshitter again.
Stories from the lost nation
So much talk of Les renders him a semi-legendary figure, a supposed poet (though we never see any of his poetry, only that which he inspires in others), but he might more accurately be described as a serial
bullshitter who "took lying to be creative" (his own name repeatedly suggesting "lies").
Forrest Gander. As a Friend
"I was thinking to myself, 'You are the biggest
bullshitter that ever lived.' I knew we were sitting ducks," says Christenson, a founder and former president of the group Military Reporters and Editors.
Obstructed view: extreme danger and sky-high security costs have diminished the press corps in Iraq and severely limited access to a deepening morass. The result is a clouded picture of perhaps today's most important news story
Unlike both the truthful person and the liar, the "
bullshitter," according to Frankfurt, "just picks them ["the things he says"] out, or makes them up, to suit his [her] purpose." (10)
Imperial democratization: Rhetoric and reality
as a deformity of truth, and says of those oft-quoted newsmakers and sources who produce it: "Unlike a liar, who knows the truth and wants to keep people away from it, the
bullshitter exhibits a complete lack of concern in differentiating between truth and falsehood.
He Wrote the Book on 'B.S.'
Noisy vigorous
bullshitter." Later in Rumudu, Morrison commented that it was a "pity" that drinking "plays so large a part in their lives" and while in the southern highlands, that people were "less intoxicated, so [they got an] earlier start." This confirms what I had also been told by Kelabit informants in the mid-1990s, when I asked about the prevalence of drinking in the years immediately following conversion.
The diary of a district officer: Alastair Morrison's 1953 trip to the Kelabit Highlands
Like any compulsive
bullshitter, Glass was too focused on plugging leaks to think about the plumbing.
The liar
Understandably, he was also a bit of a
bullshitter.
Deep Cuba: voyage to the bottom of the embargo: Bill Belleville was part of a Discovery Channel-financed expedition to explore Cuba's waters. From the trip came Belleville's recent book, Deep Cuba (University of Georgia Press, 2002). We caught up with Bill at his home in Florida
Rudy, being the snobby, petty, rhetorical
bullshitter I am, it only seems natural that's how I'd write, eh?
Speak out
Jeffrey Archer: Colleagues who remembered him from 1969 to 1973 recall someone who was already a
bullshitter, who could not clearly distinguish truth from reality...
Some other revelations in the diaries
"He was meant to be this overweight
bullshitter. This guy who sat and ate, constantly, and lied about villainy.
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Although he's a relentless
bullshitter, in other words, he's really not a very good one.
Bush, Jesus, and the Executioner
Others say he was just another "prize
bullshitter."(4)
No Mas Canosa
But I was the
bullshitter. The slap was just a convenient way for me to bail out, to jump the Altman ship.
The Altman sonata