{"id":57,"date":"2006-02-14T01:16:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/14\/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-played\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","slug":"the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/14\/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-played\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frank-wouters\/60836887\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/inline\/spin.jpg\" alt=\"spin spin sugar\" class=\"inline_image\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, this isn&#8217;t exactly design or innovation related, but I just have to say something about this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presentationzen.blogs.com\/presentationzen\/\">PresentationZen<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/presentationzen.blogs.com\/presentationzen\/2006\/02\/torie_clarke_an.html\">a great post<\/a> on one of last week&#8217;s Daily Shows where Jon Stewart interviews former DOD PR flack Torie Clarke (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/media_player\/play.jhtml?itemId=58664\">check out the clip<\/a>, its painfully amusing).<\/p>\n<p>In the Usual Suspects, Verbal Kint said &#8220;The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&#8217;t exist.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Well the greatest trick a spin doctor could ever pull would be to convince the world that spin doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart exposes Clarke&#8217;s spin and obsequious hypocrisy by getting her to admit that spin is pervasive in this no-spin era.  Black is white and up is down folks.  Welcome to the wonderful world of PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this isn&#8217;t exactly design or innovation related, but I just have to say something about this PresentationZen has a great post on one of last week&#8217;s Daily Shows where Jon Stewart interviews former DOD PR flack Torie Clarke (check out the clip, its painfully amusing). In the Usual Suspects, Verbal Kint said &#8220;The greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}