Liar, liar, his bum's on fire

By Blog on the Box on Jun 5, 08 09:02 AM

There was an act of moral bankruptcy in The Apprentice.

Lying Lee admitted he told porkies on his CV. He claimed he had spent three years at university when, in fact, he dropped out after a couple of months.

This wasn't a slight distortion of the truth, no little white lie, it was a big whopper of a lie.
The sort that should have got the scumbag fired.

Instead he justified his inexactitude, got a pat on the back from Alan Sugar, and invited back for the final.

Blood of the gods. What is the world coming to when a blatant fib like this gets rewarded instead of punished?

Would you trust Lee to tell you what day of the week it was? Not without checking the diary first,

Instead of being thrown out of the door Lee attempted to excuse the inexcusable by saying he wouldn't do it again.

One of Alan Sugar's brown-nosers said he had done the same when he was younger. Sugar himself whittered on about each of the finalists having a talent.

In Lee's case, a talent for not telling the truth. What really disturbs, however, is the reaction to his fibbing.

Some commentors have already dismissed it, saying we've all done it and it's not a big deal. No, we have not all done it, some of us have managed to get through life without cheating, and it is a big deal.

It would be a travesty if a lying cheating snotbag like Lee won this year's Apprentice. He does not deserve it.

But maybe Sugar deserves Lee for not sacking him on the spot.