Honesty, Sincerity, Integrity

July 25, 2007|Richard Nikoley||

First up, I’m out of pocket at the moment. Overnight with family here in Vista, CA, and later today San Diego for a couple of days. We’re supposed to have a nice room with a view to the Bay, so if that works out I’ll post a photo.

What can you say about YouTube? What can you say when the most interesting, indeed captivating thing you saw or heard all day yesterday was a self-recorded video of some "nobody" sitting in his bedroom and coming awake to something he’s never had an interest in his entire life? Then note it’s been viewed 3,500 times in a few days.

Is he worth listening to? Well, you decide, but I say that things like this give me confidence in the human species. It’s not that he knows what he’s talking about — he probably doesn’t on any issue in the political spectrum you can name. But he does know that he’s never, ever in his life seen or heard an honest, sincere politician with the integrity to act always for his stated values without equivocation. He’s seeing it for the first time.

(rockwell)

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3 Comments

  1. Linda Morgan on July 25, 2007 at 09:57

    Richard, you little lamb.

    My quick glance at the YouTube comments — 49 when I looked in — revealed not so much as a discouraging word to cloud the day of any awakening soul.

    How long before they all don orange robes?



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  3. mandrill on July 27, 2007 at 13:41

    I have only one thing to say; remember lonelygirl? I get the uneasy feeling I got when I saw her first video. Something is not quite right, I can't put my finger on it, and it is by no means concrete, but be vigilant. There are some very capable viral marketers out there, and this is just their style. I'll certainly be watching with interest to find out if my hunch is right or not. If not then my bad.