For many years, journalists have analysed public figures through a simple, cynical lens: why is this lying bastard lying to me?
But maybe we also need to ask the opposite: why are they telling us the truth?
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Potential Trump vice president candidate Kristi Noem, who admits shooting her dog, is not the only public figure to have disastrously misjudged popular opinion.
For many years, journalists have analysed public figures through a simple, cynical lens: why is this lying bastard lying to me?
But maybe we also need to ask the opposite: why are they telling us the truth?
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