NYT columnist Maureen Dowd recently described a supposed political strategy in a recent column:

“It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s old news.”

If you can delay and delay and delay until the outrage disapates you just might be able to get away with something outrageous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-when-m...