Word: dishonestly
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...declares Carey. Although the film doesn't say so, the real Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, mail fraud and taking kickbacks. Two weeks before he disappeared, in 1975, investigators discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from the Teamsters' largest pension fund. "Hoffa was a dishonest person," says Carey. "You just have to look at all the pensioners around the country who lost money as a result of his actions...
These also are the people most susceptible to cleverly crafted but dishonest attack ads. I am thinking of the woman who, four years ago, told me she had just learned, obviously from a Bush campaign TV spot, that Michael Dukakis "believes in turning murderers loose." She was uncertain whether she would vote; let us hope she didn't and won't. Worst of all, campaigns that play on racial animosity might have a dangerous appeal to people who now tend to stay home on Election Day. Bigotry and nonvoting both correlate with low income and education...
...that it's beenas crucial a part of my environment as trees werea part of Thoreau's environment. I don't thinktelevision is wonderful. I don't think it's amenace to society. I just think it's been acritical part of my world, and it would beintellectually dishonest of me not to allow itsinfluence into my work. And I think the thing,more than anything, that interests me, in terms oftelevision, is the formal grammar of television,its speed, the kinetic way that televisionbombards us with energy, the remarkable ability oftelevision to blast you with thousands of imagesin...
...lying and the truth is nowhere near this simple. A false statement need not be a lie. "The earth is flat," coming from a member of the Flat Earth Society, is not a lie but a statement of belief. Furthermore, a true statement can be a lie. Imagine a dishonest agent telling a client, "The check is in the mail," and then discovering to his horror that his new secretary has actually . . . mailed the check. Even though his client got paid, the agent intended...
...Dishonest Abe: Garry Wills on Lincoln's methods...