"Yaga Zuzi, She Wrote"

Yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews, an observer said that President Trump has a pattern when he explains his actions:  first he lies; then he deceives, and then he admits it and says everybody does it.

What is the difference between lying and deceiving?

Dictionary:

lie (noun) -- an intentionally false statement

deceive (verb) -- to cause someone to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage; to give a mistaken impression

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     When you listen to the George Stephanopoulos interview with our president...

------------------------------- There's a "Bewitched" (Season 2, episode 5 - 'The Joker Is a Card') where Uncle Arthur teaches Darrin how to cast a spell.  Darrin would like to get back at his mother-in-law for all the times she has turned him into things and cast spells on him -- so he tries it out on her.

He has to chant an incantation and then rattle a cowbell and toot a duck call, and Endora is supposed to disappear.

"Yaga zuzi, yaga zuzi, yaga zuzi, ZIM!"

(Ding-ah ding-ah -- clankety-clank ----- mlaaaat!)

He tries the spell a couple of times, in front of Samantha and Endora, who stare at him like he's crazy.  Getting really wound up, he hollers, "Don't try and stop me, Sam, she's been asking for this for a long time!"

Samantha says to her mother, with sublime incredulity, "Mother, have you been asking for this?!"

----------------- Lately when our president speaks, all I can hear is,

"yaga-zuzi, yaga-zuzi, yaga-zuzi, ZIM!"

And I think,
"My fellow Americans -- have we been asking for this?!"

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