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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them largely targets prominent Republicans and conservatives, highlighting what Franken asserts are documentable lies in their claims.A significant portion of the book is devoted to comparisons between President George W. Bush and former president Bill Clinton regarding their economic, environmental, and military policies.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2] It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.
Jeremy Adam Smith wrote that "lying is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's campaign and presidency." [26] Thomas B. Edsall wrote "Donald Trump can lay claim to the title of most prodigious liar in the history of the presidency." [26] George C. Edwards III wrote: "Donald Trump tells more untruths than any previous president. There is no one that is ...
Now, the mustachioed misfit is taking on the concept of truth itself with his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, about a compulsive liar named Marsha Sprinkle. “I had a wonderful time ...
On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). [1] [2] In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful ...
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of ...
The fictional character Pinocchio is a common depiction of a liar. A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving or misleading someone. [1] [2] [3] The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar.
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