Sunday, April 15, 2007

Cover-Ups are Everywhere

Unkind Deeds and Cover-Ups are so common we hardly notice them. They make headlines every day. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is one of a long list of individuals who engage in cover up. They do unkind or dishonest things. They want to appear upright and virtuous. They don't want to state they did these unkind things. They lie, blame others, joke. My favorite cover up of all is the one about the boyfriend and girlfriend when the girlfriend finds out he's been seeing another woman.

GF: What do you want? A harem?
BF: Two women? That's not much of a harem.

Humor is a great way of getting yourself off the hook.

Baseball and bicycling is full of scandal over the alleged used of steroids and other drugs to enhance performance. Whether or not there is a cover up even the whiff of it has soiled both sports. Baseball officials have dragged their feet for many years over full investigations of these illegal and unkind acts. They are protecting a sport, they think. Protecting something "greater" is a common rationale for cover up.

An editorial in the The Wall Street Journal used the tactic of trivialization to cover up the scandal that Paul Wolfowitz started when he paid his companion $200,000 for a World Bank job. The editorial asked what is that compared to the billions that corrupt governmental officials from the Bank, money that is intended to help third-world countries.

There are many ways to cover up. I'd enjoy hearing from others about the ways people cover up their unkind deeds.

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