A couple dozen fans of "self-help" con artist Tony Robbins recently got the hot foot at one of his "If I'm rich and you're not, it's your fault" seances. Walking barefoot over white-hot coals can do that to you. But do those whose tootsies got second and third degree burns blame Robbins? Course not! To paraphrase their take away: "the fault lies in ourselves." No More Mister Nice Blog explains:
"Because a lot of us are much too willing to believe whatever a rich, successful guy tells us -- especially when he tells us that our problems are exclusively our fault and not the fault of people like himself. If a guy is rich, and he tells us he and his class are helping us when they're really hurting us, a lot of us just believe him -- after all, he helped himself, didn't he? If we're not being helped, it must be our fault."Or, as the great Charles P. Pierce (who gave us the title for this posting) succinctly puts it:
"He's a fake and you're all morons.(Image: Robbins and ...(sigh) Oprah)
Bailiff, bring in the next group."
