'Bucket of turds' - an important concept when listening to taser spokespuppets

Explanation extracted from [LINK] (11 Jan. 2008).

You need to know this concept if you're to stay sane and prevent your head from exploding when forced to listen to certain pro-taser 'front men' giving their crazy, truth-defying "tasers-R-safe" spiels.


'Bucket of turds' explained:

Some people have an amazing skill. They can walk out onto a stage in front of a thousand people and in front of the world media, plop down a large bucket of turds, gently step into the bucket of turds with both feet, then make a one-hour speech and take one hour of questions, and somehow - throughout the entire event - never make any mention of, nor any reference to, the bucket of turds.

If any explicit or direct questions are asked about the bucket of turds, then a long-winded answer will ensue that inexplicably spins around and amazingly continues to avoid any mention of the bucket of turds.

Sometimes I think that the subsequent applause is for the actual skill involved; not for the typically inane position taken by such people on important issues.

'Bucket of turds' - once you know what it's called, then you can start to see it everywhere.