A Lie by any other name is just as Untruthful, Deceptive, False or Misleading

Creating Orwellian Worldview ^ | 9/22/09 | Alaphiah

[Alaphiah123]

I like Charles Krauthammer’s work. Even more than that I respect him as a thinker and political analyst,. but I was a little put off by his attempt to finagle the word “Lie” in his article, “Does Obama Lie? No, but Obama implies, misdirects, and misleads.”(see article)

According to Webster Dictionary a lie is: 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression

It seemed to me Mr. Krauthammer go lost in a concept as writers sometimes do and instead of proving his point, after reading his article I said out loud, “My God Mr. Krauthammer just lost an argument with himself!

His original premise was flawed. He was arguing against the very definition of the very word that he was attempting to nuance. It was like arguing that water, in its natural form, is not wet.

[YHAOS]

“Does Obama Lie? No, but Obama implies, misdirects, and misleads.”

The Kenyan Pretender does all that (implies, misdirects, and misleads) and he lies.

[jessduntno]

“misdirects and misleads” are the methods by which the One has lied to the public...quarreling with a description of the method that one takes to tell a lie is not the same as quarreling whether or not you are wet, rather it is more like an explanation of HOW you got wet - did you walk in the rain or did you pee in your pants? This is a badly written and poorly made effort to describe the process of the thoughts of a very smart man, IMNSHO...

CK rocks and taking him on in a battle of wits, you need to be more than half prepared...

[TurtleUp]

Obama makes life easy for me. I no longer have to think of a new tagline every few posts.

[calex59]

He lies whenever he opens his mouth. Oh, BTW, I agree with you and also with the stupid statement, “He misspoke!”. That is simply another way of trying to cover for a lie.