{"id":1450,"date":"2005-11-22T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/22\/homer-simpson-pbs-viewer\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T21:24:00","slug":"homer-simpson-pbs-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/22\/homer-simpson-pbs-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer Simpson, PBS viewer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are, of course, all familiar with this classic epigram from The Simpsons<\/span>:<\/p>\n

“It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen!”
— Homer Simpson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, this pithy aphorism has been quoted in such publications as the political rag Reason Online<\/span><\/a>. It should, therefore, surprise none of us to hear it paraphrased with a straight face in FRONTLINE<\/span>‘s “The Diamond Empire”<\/a>, a would-be expos\u00e9 of the De Beers monopoly:<\/p>\n

“[L]ike all deception, the person who’s deceived plays a part in the deception, as well as the deceiver. It’s not a one-person act. It’s two people, the deceiver and the deceived, acting in collaboration.”
— Edward Jay Epstein, author, “The Rise and Fall of Diamonds”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And lest you think that marriage has mellowed my obsessive research tendencies: “The Diamond Empire” aired on February 1, 1994. Homer’s declaration occurred in “Colonel Homer”<\/a> (fansub title: “Lurleen on Me”<\/a>), which aired on March 26, 1992. It is clear, methinks, which of Messrs.<\/span> Simpson and Epstein merits the appellation “chicken”, and which gentleman we may safely call “egg”.<\/p>\n

I said good day<\/span>, sir!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are, of course, all familiar with this classic epigram from The Simpsons: “It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen!”— Homer Simpson Indeed, this pithy aphorism has been quoted in such publications as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}