Hear No Evil: Only Happy Sounds
Chief: You can't tell him that. It's bad news. He doesn't respond well to bad news.
Aide: But.. but it's the truth. He has to have truthful intel, even if negative, to make sound decisions and-
Chief: Heh. Um, ok let me stop you right there. You know in the movies, when the crime lord or head of a league of assassins is given bad news by some henchman? And they say something like "this news displeases me"? And then they shoot the messenger in the head, or pluck his eye out, or knife him in the gut? Well, it works the same way here.
Aide: He..he'll have me killed?
Chief: No. no, of course not. It hardly ever.. no. No I mean, he'll kill your career. Previous White House aides who spoke to him "in the negative", were immediately reassigned, usually to an entirely different continent. And not one of the good ones. His world view is very precious to him. You have no idea how hard we work to protect it.
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