On lying, part 4 continued

I neglected to add that everything which needs to be said about this situation with our company president was said 500 years ago, by Niccolo Machiavelli, in chapter 23 of his most famous work, The Prince: "How Flatterers Should Be Avoided". I only wish I could believe that our top management was Machiavellian, at any rate in the truest sense of the word.