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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
I just saw this on my New Yorker daily newsletter, John. Hilarious!
Front-Ranger:
"Book bad!" :laugh: :laugh:
Thanks so much for the additional details on the cover. I found it buried way back under my bed!!
I read the issue and all of the stories you referred to, but the cover didn't register in my mind. Guess I'm just not a dog-lover!!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 05, 2018, 02:59:52 pm ---I just saw this on my New Yorker daily newsletter, John. Hilarious!
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 05, 2018, 03:22:38 pm ---"Book bad!" :laugh: :laugh:
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Book Bad?? Be Best!! ;D ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
I just finished Jeffrey Toobin's article on Rudy Giuliani (Sept. 10).
Why doesn't Toobin call a lie a lie instead of a bloody falsehood?
Have we already forgotten Giuliani's dictum, "Truth is not Truth"?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 17, 2018, 02:01:15 pm ---I just finished Jeffrey Toobin's article on Rudy Giuliani (Sept. 10).
Why doesn't Toobin call a lie a lie instead of a bloody falsehood?
Have we already forgotten Giuliani's dictum, "Truth is not Truth"?
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Lie and falsehood are not synonymous. One implies intent to deceive; the other means making a false statement, but doesn't imply intent.
Sure, we can all assume that Giuliani knows he is lying. But one guess of why Toobin wrote it that way is that accusing someone of lying is on thinner legal ice, inviting a potential LIEbel suit.
And/or, "lie" is a hot-button word, subtly charged with accusation and outrage. Falsehood is a more neutral term. And when he uses it to describe a guy with decades of legal and political experience who is also a close friend of Donald Trump's and who frequently says things that are provably untrue and sometimes inadvertently contradict even Trump's statements, Toobin probably figures he can trust New Yorker readers to understand what that means. He doesn't want or need to convey potentially partisan outrage; he wants to convey the straight facts and let readers muster their own partisan outrage.
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