It all started when Walker sent out this tweet on the evening of December 26:
Great pizza tonight at San Giorgio Pizzeria Napoletana. We have to support our local restaurants and small businesses!
Yes, we do! In fact, Walker was supporting local restaurants and small businesses before it was cool! Way before.
He apparently supported this particular restaurant in precisely the same way, duplicated in every detail, as Erik Halvorsen, a Democratic partisan with an eagle eye, noticed.
Yep, that's the same pizza. Not the same pizza as in, "I get the same pizza every time I go there!" It's the same exact pizza. He just cropped that old picture and put it in a new tweet.
As Noam Blum initially put it:
Broke: Telling people to not go out while going out yourself
Woke: Telling people to go out while you don't go out yourself
But as it turned out, Walker apparently was not lying about going to San Giorgio Pizzeria that night, he just deceptively used an old picture and cropped it hoping no one would notice which when you think about it is... a lie.
It took him until this morning to fess up. (I made the screencap at 10:55 AM EST December 27.)
I used an old photo since we didn't take one last night.
He could have added it was an old picture for the reason he belatedly did later and it would have been fine, or use some stock picture of the restaurant. But instead, for maximum impact (and maybe some virtue signaling) he went for the deception.
Not a big deal?
It bothers me how easily people lie and the manner in which it becomes a reflex, particularly with politicians.
Caught in a lie, what does he do? Certainly not apologize. No, he adds yet another lie.
I'm glad this tweet has generated so much attention.
There is not a soul on the face of this earth who believes that.
One of my favorite quotes of all time, one I often think about, was made by basketball coach John Wooden:
"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."
What's it say about a man's character when everyone is watching and he still feels free to lie? What does it say about us when we let him get away with it?
