{"id":367,"date":"2009-10-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/10\/the-truth-of-lies-comments-thi.html"},"modified":"2009-10-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:00:00","slug":"the-truth-of-lies-comments-thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/10\/the-truth-of-lies-comments-thi.html","title":{"rendered":"The Truth of Lies: Comments This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/10\/balloon-boy.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Balloon Boy blog<\/a> (pardon all the &#8220;b&#8221;s), we got some interesting feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Thinfitnsassy (love that) wrote:&nbsp; &#8220;Another reason to turn of the boob tube and not perpetuate this nonsense!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helen commented: &#8220;Knowledge, TRUTH and Light is POWER!&#8221;&nbsp; Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>Lou so astutely said, &#8220;In fact, the &#8220;better the lie&#8221;, the more attention grabbing the person gets. 15 minutes of fame? or promise of misery?&#8221;&nbsp; How true!<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Roberts, a delightful frequent reader and comment writer put it like this: &#8220;The story reminds me of the little boy that cried &#8220;wolf&#8221; long ago. The father or whoever did this publicity stunt only hurt his cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Erin, very compassionately wrote, &#8220;Given the apparent consequences, too, which may prove to be quite<br \/>\nserious, I hope (Little Falcon) will not be feeling guilty for being truthful. I<br \/>\nhope this family can get some counseling assistance&#8230;.it sounds like<br \/>\nthey could use some help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, an anonymous regular reader, not seeking any fame at all said so well, &#8220;The media needs to leave this alone, let him deal with the consequences and quit showing him so much on T.V.&#8221;&nbsp; Yes, enough already.<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave this alone, too!&nbsp; It&#8217;s all a bunch of hot air anyway, and way overinflated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my Balloon Boy blog (pardon all the &#8220;b&#8221;s), we got some interesting feedback. 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