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Leave Barbara Streisand out of this…
Oh, wait…
I see what you did there. 
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I would argue that the most damning thing about Goodarzi’s response is how perfectly boilerplate and PR-friendly it is. He’s clearly had some good media training, and largely attempts to talk around the subject—though his refusal to address it head-on speaks volume by itself.
I think that somewhere along the way to CEO you get loads of mandatory PR speech training. I like when people are direct with me, but I can certainly see how a majority of people would react negatively if you only spoke the blunt truth.
There’s a lot to talk about with this recent Ezra Klein piece, but this part in particular has really stuck with me, which I think speaks to the CEO-ness going on here:
Over the years, I have interviewed I don’t know how many politicians. Talking to them is different from talking to anyone else. It’s why I don’t just fill this show with them. Politicians are inhibited. Before anything comes out of their mouth, they are running their response through this internal piece of software. Some of them are really good at it. Pete Buttigieg, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama — the software is so fast and efficient as to be almost seamless.
The politicians we sense to be inauthentic — it’s often that the software is slower and buggier. You can see the seams. You can watch the calculations happening in real time.
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