Yes, her again. In her Beetlejuice fiasco apology, Rep. Lauren Boebert lied about an important aspect of her “date night” at the musical Beetlejuice, akin to an inconvenient fact. As a general rule, lying when you’re professing to tell the truth is a bad idea. This is doubly true for Lauren Boebert, a habitual liar; her lies are easily fact-checked. Inside and out of the Capitol building she tells whoppers. Moreover, lying when issuing a statement seeking sympathy adds another dimension to just plain lying – stupidity (which she’s famously done before). If, like Boebert, you are in the professional class of liars, one must be vigilant: don’t lie stupidly. As we wrote about Trump here, that makes things significantly worse, witness Seinfeld’s George Costanza.
In this case, her apology gave the clear impression that her date at Beetlejuice was a casual affair, seemingly a first date. She gave credence to that by avowing, with a tinge of humor, “I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” as in, “I didn’t know he was a Democrat.” In fact, she knew him and his party of choice quite well: Quinn Gallagher, 46, a Democrat and co-owner of Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar which has hosted drag shows and pro-LGBTQ+ events. Importantly to this saga, they had been dating for some time, “under the radar.”
Seriously?
Is this worth grousing about? Well, yes, a qualified yes, let’s not get carried away. Her lie is small compared to her still active lies about the 2020 election, and LGBTQ+ “grooming.” What’s important here is that Boebert lied about her relationship with Gallagher. Why hide it? Was it due to his co-ownership of a bar that hosts drag queen shows and LBGTQ+ events? She’s no friend to that community, having said this about the Equality Act :
Inconvenienced
It’s likely that she didn’t want any inconvenient facts to muddy her somewhat humorous apology to her constituents. So, she reflexively lied about the relationship with Gallagher by styling it like a first date simply to try to bury the other, more politically dangerous, inconvenient fact that her date co-owns an LGBTQ+-friendly bar. Some of her constituents may not applaud her for that, and her bid for reelection is none too certain already. She’s been, overall, an embarrassment, now this. In 2022 she won by a mere 546 votes, and in late August polls show her in a dead-heat with her challenger, Adam Frisch.
And as mentioned above, it’s stupid lying, easily uncovered by simple googling, and that is why it matters more than a garden variety white lie. She ought to be careful, in a close reelection race, all lies are worthy of careful vetting.