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Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
April 2nd, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Posted: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 at
7:52 pm
70 Comments »
April 2nd, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Glenn Kessler gives Obama “Three Pinocchios” on background checks. I give Kessler three “Benjy Compsons.”
Posted: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 at
6:50 pm
11 Comments »
March 18th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Immigration, Lying in politics
GOP for “self-deportation”? Hell, no! Just “encourage illegal aliens to return home voluntarily” with threats of arrest. Whew! Had me worried for a moment.
Posted: Monday, March 18th, 2013 at
11:22 pm
13 Comments »
March 17th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Latest claim from Chavez’s successor ready to be picked up by Drudge.com.
Posted: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 at
6:55 pm
23 Comments »
February 17th, 2013
by Johann Koehler
Category: Humor, Language and usage, Lying in politics, Personal moment, Rhetoric and Framing, Uncategorized
I’m a fan of George Orwell. I think one of the most important pieces of writing in the English language, for example, is his set of rules for how to make the perfect cup of tea. In fact, I sometimes wonder whether people can really make a cup of tea, and therefore participate in civilised [...]
Posted: Sunday, February 17th, 2013 at
12:14 pm
Tags: George Orwell
19 Comments »
December 30th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Do I hear any apologies?
Posted: Sunday, December 30th, 2012 at
8:08 pm
72 Comments »
December 8th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Dan Froomkin: 1. Contemporary GOP politicians and spokespeople are habitual liars. 2. The conventions of mainstream reporting forbid reporters to report that highly relevant fact. 3. The penalty for scholars who state that fact and criticize reporters for their failure to report is is to be categorized as partisan and thus denied coverage. Don’t feel [...]
Posted: Saturday, December 8th, 2012 at
11:48 am
4 Comments »
December 8th, 2012
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Lese-Majeste, Lying in politics
I would hardly qualify as the Obama campaign’s most important supporter, but I did give several hundred dollars to the campaign, as well as spending numerous hours making phone calls on the President’s behalf. I did not do this so that the President could raise the Medicare age and retain the lion’s share of the [...]
Posted: Saturday, December 8th, 2012 at
8:56 am
33 Comments »
December 1st, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Slowly, all-too-slowly, the press corps is adjusting to the fact that, when it comes to mendacity, the two parties are not symmetric. Grunwald points out why doing so is both hard and essential: GOP’s up-is-downism puts news reporters in an awkward position. It would seem tendentious to point out Republican hypocrisy on deficits and Medicare [...]
Posted: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at
4:55 am
4 Comments »
November 22nd, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Watching Conservatives
“There is no scandal here–except for the reprehensible behavior of politicians like John McCain and Lindsey Graham.” Amen!
Posted: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 at
8:36 am
7 Comments »