Originally Posted by
franklin_m
Hanson, and by extension the AMA, fell victim to the classic trap - they believed their own rhetoric. That created blind spots.
I'm sure some of the older crowd remembers Jim Bakker, of PTL and Heritage USA infamy. Jim Bakker spent 8 years in federal prison. After his release, he was interviewed by Cal Thomas. Cal asked him this question:
“When did you start to go wrong?”
His answer was instructive: “When I began to surround myself with people who told me only what I wanted to hear.”
It seems to me that the AMA, along with a good portion of corporate America frankly, could learn an important lesson from Jim Bakker.