Bullshit

George Carlin says we shouldn't worry about the decline of the auto and steel industries because they were never America’s leading industries anyway. He says what America has always led to world in, and where we still excel, is the manufacturing and selling of bullshit -- A#1, Grade A, bullshit.

If there was ever any doubt, it disappeared with the revelation that, since leaving the White House, the Clinton's have made more than $109 million manufacturing and selling bullshit. I don't mean this pejoratively. We all have our personal bullshit. I've made a living for almost 30 years selling my own brand. But what else can you call it when people are paying you vast sums to listen to you talk or to read your written bullshit?

And the $109 million is only the tip of the iceberg. The Clinton’s raised another $500 million to fund the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library where their bullshit will be on display long past the end of their mortal selves. This is multi generational, multimedia, manufacturing and selling of bullshit on a scale rarely seen outside of Hollywood or network television.

I once got to see it up close and personal. WJC attended a Fortune magazine conference in 1988 while he was the Governor of Arkansas, and I sat at his table at dinner one evening. I was in awe, and still am today, of his interpersonal skills and ability to appear to really care about whomever he is talking to. Hillary has the same willingness to sling it, but lacks the skills to sell it like Bill – however, sometimes it is less about ability than it is about connections.