Over the Independence Day weekend, radio stations around New Hampshire aired thirty second commercials for Charles bass, the man who promised he would only run for three terms, and who is now running for his sixth. In the spots, "Charlie" is heard defining "independence", which, in an example of post-modernist, deconstructionist, leftist linguistics he defines to fit his agenda.

Like many people who heard his commercials, Gardner Goldsmith recognized the fallacies in them, and the verbal sleight of hand used by Charlie and his PR staff.

This is part one of two.