Chef Robert Irvine, whose book Mission: Cook! is available for online reading through HarperCollins website, has not had his contract renewed by Food Network because he exaggerated his involvement with Britain’s Royal Family on his resume. Irvine says, “I am truly sorry for the errors in my judgment.”
In related news, the author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years admits to making up the whole thing. “She didn’t live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She didn’t trek 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her deported parents, nor kill a German soldier in self-defense. She’s not even Jewish,” according to the AP.
Also, an adviser for Mr. Obama, a popular U.S. presidential candidate, says the candidate was pandering to his Mid-western audience with his protectionist language. That is, a Canadian official states in a memo that the candidate’s adviser said these things to him in response to the official’s trade concerns. Oh my, who to believe?
A lie is now “an error in judgment.” It is that, true enough. But most errors in judgment arise from lack of sufficient information. Telling a lie means you have the information, you just disregard it.
Precisely the opposite of the “Bush lied, people died” meme. Apparently nowadays people don’t know the difference.