… is from page 428 of Joseph Epstein’s 2009 short essay “Sound Off” as this essay is reprinted in the 2016 collection of Epstein’s short essays, Wind Sprints:
As for presidential press secretaries, their message never changes: The president is, was, and always will be correct, so please don’t bother me with contradictions, misquotations, or simple logic.
DBx: Yep. It’s difficult to imagine a job that demands so much dishonesty and deceitfulness as presidential press secretary.
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Note that I chose the photo above only because it is of the current presidential press secretary. Had I featured this quotation, say, ten years ago or three years ago a different person would be pictured above. Ditto if I had chosen instead to feature this quotation sometime in, say, 2031.
