That's what he said.  The phrase was repeated at least six times in that talk.  Four years ago, before he was an apostle, Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Seventy spoke on that theme in a Priesthood session of general conference.

Somehow I remember it all this time later.  Repetition resounds, I guess. 

He spoke of a law-enforcement friend of his who had had a terrifying close call while doing a drug bust.  The dealer behind the door, he said, "did not appear angry or afraid. He was smiling" insomuch that Andersen's friend said that "his eyes and disarming smile gave me the impression that he was harmless, so I quickly left him and started to move toward the table" where the cocaine was piled up.

An instant's impression later he was in a life-and-death struggle with an armed and dangerous drug dealer. 

The same one who had been so charming a moment earlier. 

The precognitive impression, given by the Spirit of God?  "Beware of the evil behind the smiling eyes."

Now, this may not have been Elder Andersen's intent, and if I am taking too many liberties with his address I apologize.  But I think back on that talk, and that warning, every time I see something on TV.

Or rather, someone.

A winning smile, to be sure.  Charismatic and charming.

Evil is not, indeed cannot be, always cloaked in dark robes and deep voices.  It hides behind cognitive dissonance.  He looks so nice, and he's saying such nice things.  He can't be evil.

Never mind the staggering acceleration in the debt.

Never mind the ties to domestic terrorists and America-haters.

Never mind the cozy relations with Chavez, and his bow to the Saudi king, and his obsequious deference to Putin's disarm-America agenda.

Never mind the outright plunder of this and future generations on a scale never imagined by archetypical practitioners of plunder such as the Vikings, Visigoths, and Mongols.

Never mind the wholesale slaughter of innocents in the ineffable name of choice and wrapped in feminine mystique--and certainly pay no mind to the abominable vote to let survivors of this horror die of neglect. 

Never mind the power grab in the form of czars of every kind and description. 

Never mind the money grab in the form of "cap and trade" that promises to deliver the death-knell to an economy already kneeling on the mat. 

Never mind the Nehorian "universal salvation" from inadequate health coverage.

Such smiling eyes and measured speech cannot possibly be evil to the core.  Right?

Beware of the evil behind the smiling eyes.

(BTW, I am currently without steady Internet access, so have to do like our friend Mr. Patrick Wallace and use the library.  Thus I may be a little slow in posting comments.  Be patient.  And constructive, for that matter.)