Monday, November 18, 2013
A Liar By Any Other Name…
There’s a crisis in what passes for journalism these days, because last week Obama Supporters in the Press at CBS, NBC and ABC actually began running stories about White House lies and how Obama and Dishonest DemocRATS in Congress got themselves reelected in 2012 by selling a so-called healthcare reform law based on “a big lie.”
Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Hitler’s Nazi Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it, especially all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing Voters Who Bothered Going to the Polls last year.
Hurley the Historian says according to the History Channel, on this date in 1978, People’s Temple leader Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. More recently, we all remember when DemocRAT Speaker of the House said “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it…” [WATCH IT HERE]
But the biggest problem for our so-called journalists these days is coming up with a way to report Obama and all those Disgraced DemocRATS lied without having to call them “Liars.” It sounds so judgmental.
Disingenuous DemocRAT House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer claims Obama telling Americans they could keep their plans was not a lie, because people interpreted what he said “expansively,” whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.
The “Father of ObamaCare” (MIT Professor Jon Gruber) admits Obama “Misled” Americans when he told them they could keep their Health Plans, and Whistleblower Pollster Ron Rasmussen says 46% believe Obama “Purposely Misled” Americans about the impact of the new law on their lives.
And how about when the New York Times called Obama’s “Keep Your Plan Lie” an “Incorrect Promise?” That’s the first time we’ve seen that expression used—EVER! And all of this is because it wouldn’t be Politically Correct for any of our Kneepad Liberals in the Press to call our Political Prevaricator in the White House a “Liar.”
So wait a minute, maybe if they just used words that meant the same thing as “Lies” and “Liars,” it might not sound so bad.
Our Roster of Synonyms might include:
Bluff: a statement intended to deceive or confuse- Canard: an unsubstantiated story or report
- Deceit: a deceptive statement
- Deception: A statement or action intended to mislead
- Distortion: a deviation from the true meaning, or an overstatement of proportion
- Equivocation: a misleading or confusing statement based on the possibility of differing interpretations
- Exaggeration: an overstatement or overemphasis
- Fable: a fictitious statement or story, in the sense of something made up to explain or justify an unmerited action or state of affairs
- Fabrication: a made-up fact or incident
- Fairy tale: a misleading story, especially a simplistic one that would not be expected to deceive anyone
- Fallacy: a deceptive or erroneous statement; also, a false idea or a flawed argument
- Falsehood: something untrue or inaccurate
- Falsification: an alteration of facts in order to deceive
- Falsity (see falsehood)
- Fib: a simple, perhaps transparent lie
- Fiction: an invented statement or story
- Half-truth: a statement with some basis in truth that nevertheless serves to deceive
- Humbug: a false, deceptive, or nonsensical statement
- Invention: a statement crafted to deceive
- Jive: a deceptive, insincere, or nonsensical statement
- Libel: a written or similarly presented lie that defames a person
- Mendacity: an act of lying
- Misconception: a poor understanding, perhaps deliberate, of a fact
- Misinformation: a purported fact presented with the intent to deceive
- Misinterpretation: a deviation from the facts or from a reasonable analysis of them
- Misreport: an inaccurate account
- Misrepresentation: an erroneous or unfair interpretation of facts
- Misstatement: an inaccurate or erroneous comment
- Myth: a perpetuated notion, belief, or tradition that is suspect or unfounded
- Obliquity: a deviation from the truth to obscure or confuse
- Perjury: a lie presented under oath
- Pose: a false or deceptive position or self-representation
- Pretense: an unsupported claim, an insincere purpose or intention, or a superficial effort
- Prevarication: a deviation from the truth
- Slander: an injuriously false statement about a person
- Story: a lie, or a rumor
- Tale: a false representation
- Taradiddle: nonsense (also, see fib)
- Untruth: a deviation from truth or the facts
- Whopper: an outsized lie
THEN THERE ARE EXPRESSIONS like artistic license, bag, beat around the bush, blow smoke, bullshit, front, fuck, fudge, full of shit, give a bum steer, head game, hose, kosh, run drag, salt up, shady, shit, snow, well, whitewash, wind up, and yank (one’s) chain.- ANOTHER LIST includes balderdash, baloney, blowy, bobo, bogus, bollocks,booty chatter, booty-cheddar, bullshit, bull shit, bull stuff – codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, drag, epizootics of the blowhole, flapdoodle, FOS, full of crap, full of it, gobbledygook, hokum, hooey, horse shit, malarkey, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, noise, piffle, pile of pants, pish posh, poppycock ,pork pie, rubbish, shit, soup, spit, stretch, sugar honey ice tea, twaddle, wind up, and windy.
- DID THEY FORGET “Bamboozle,” “Hoodwink,” and “Horns woggle?”
You know, if keep this up, we’ll be able to give each of the 535 Members of Congress his own special phrase to use every time he’s economical with the truth, tries to spin a yarn, or is just full of shit.
- FINALLY, AT YESTERDAY’S MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA, Political Insiders were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane who came up with the three kinds of lies as Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. “That quote is often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century British Prime Minister,” Kane explained, “but if we want to use it during the Dark Ages of Obama’s Second Term (with only 1,159 more days remaining unless he’s impeached), we’d probably have to say the three kinds of lies are “Lies, Damn Lies, and Just About Every Time Obama Opens His Mouth.”
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