Word: lieing
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...forward. This is a legacy that stretches from the Revolution to Lewis and Clark on to GI Joe. Despite Buffett's grave concern about the state of the economy now and in the immediate future one of the most striking passages in his letter is "America's best days lie ahead." The same sentence might have been written into the President's address to a joint session of Congress last week...
...dishonest to pretend that inherent judgments regarding the age and gender of a man’s sexual partner are not at play in the Adams scandal. The story of Sam Adams—that duplicitous homosexual!—indicates something we all already knew: sometimes, politicians lie, whether they’re gay, straight, male or female. End of story. People who insist that this alone is a shocking fact—independent of Adams’s sexuality—are woefully self-deceived...
...discussion of obscenities. In any case, the quality of his argument isn’t strong enough to merit being called “mindfuck.” Sincerity, however, could not salvage the book. Despite its interesting particularities, the greatest weaknesses of “Mindfucking” lie in its lack of depth: McGinn is certainly not the first to tell his readers about the “phenomenon” of mental manipulation, and he doesn’t treat the subject with enough intellectual gravity to give a new twist on the topic...
...message was clear. Not only would Will and his editors at the editorial page not apologize for misleading their readers, but the ombudsman, supposedly the readers’ voice at the paper, would defend the distortions. At every level, the Washington Post is prepared to support writers who lie in its pages...
...February 19, 2009, it is acceptable to lie in the pages of the Washington Post. There is no other way to interpret the e-mail that the paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, sent to reporter Pat Johnson that day, excusing a blatantly error-riddled column on global warming by George Will that the Post had published earlier in the week...