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...journalists try to point out the exaggerations and criticize them, then let the voters decide. When McCain says, for example, that Barack Obama favors a government-run health-care system, he's not telling the truth - Obama wants a market-based system subsidized by the government - but McCain's untruth illuminates a general policy direction, which is sketchy but sort of within the bounds. (Obama's plan would increase government regulation of the drug and insurance industries.) Obama has done this sort of thing too. In July, he accused McCain of supporting the foreign buyout of an American company that...
...Niel said. “That’s a scary statistic.”BOYS SPEAK LEADERAccording to Rankin, the issue of sexual assault is perceived as inherently divisive between the sexes because instead of hearing the fact that most rapists are men, most people hear the untruth that most men are rapists.“That’s not the case obviously or the message, but it’s sometimes what some women and men hear and therefore get defensive or simply tune out, especially when the message is being delivered by a woman...
...picking corn and hunting deer?he's eating locally! The apocalypse is an epic tragedy, but it's also a fantasy of cleansing and regeneration wherein everything inessential and inauthentic is swept away so that we can build afresh among the ruins. It's a convenient untruth. "I've been struck by the number of New Yorkers who have actually said to me, 'God, it was so much fun watching the city fall apart like that,'" says Weisman. "There is on some level a secret longing that people have, saying 'Let's just give it up. What a mess...
...turns up only two hits for al-Qa’qaa and its variants. In our cosmopolitanism, are we neutral between truth and lies? Neutral between correctness and error? Where, in your daily professional and social life, is the evidence to the contrary? Reasonable people cannot disagree about the untruths enmeshed with the world-altering events of the last few years. And yet daily we practice tolerance toward untruth. Dismissal of historical fact, degradation of interpretive principle, plain concepts purposefully eroded, impudence toward empirical sciences; bare and slanderous celebration of ignorance itself—we call these things...
...Untruth & Consequences...