Senator Kyle comes across as the controlling spouse who knows the best defense is a good offense, the kind of spouse who is definitely hiding something: an affair? a big lie about money? both?

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That's the kind of lie that God looks down and says, 'Hey, wait a minute.

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But when you create an icon of a person in that kind of way, after everyone thinks you are like this and if you lie about it, everyone just thinks that it is all true.

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That could portend a future where BlackBerry is more of a software company than a hardware company, echoing the kind of dramatic pivot once made by IBM, and which could even lie in store for competitor Nokia.

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