I'll say it again.
I think you can admire the style without condoning the crime.
To wit, Michelle Bachmann and her bordering on genius method of dealing with opinions, no matter how fact based, that differ from her own.
Simply denying it.
Piers Morgan reads Bachmann's own words right back to her face, words that by any fair, reasonable definition qualify as being "judgemental" on her part, makes the observation that by any fair, reasonable definition she is, at least in this instance being "judgemental" and she responds with a brilliance not often seen in a world of politics that relies on subterfuge and/or obfuscation.
"No, I'm not."
Stunning in its simplicity, irrefutable in its presentation, impossible to counter.
Verbal checkmate.
And while CNN headlines the story with the inevitable, hackneyed "Piers in war of words with Bachmann" yada, yada, the real breaking news is being overlooked here.
This may, in fact, be the first recorded instance of the beginning of a totally new era in socio-political history.
Denial on a scale previously undreamed, let alone unseen.
Think of the possibilities.
"Governor Romney, you said in 2009 that parts of Massachusetts health care could be positively adapted into the national health plan."
"No, I didn't."
"Speaker Gingrich, you've been quoted as saying you believe no one in power can be trusted"
"No, I don't."
"Mr. Limbaugh, you were egregiously out of line and morally reprehensible when you called Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute."
"No, I wasn't. And even if I was, no, I didn't."
This is an evolution of staggering potential.
Politics, as we know it, will literally change over night.
No longer will politicians have to waste countless hours in spin and/or damage control.
They'll just look us in the eyes, smile a frozen smile and say...
"...no, I didn't/I'm not..."
And assume that we'll give up and drop it.
Common sense, of course, suggests that we will see this bordering on absurdity for the insult to our intelligence that it is.
No, we won't.
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