Stuck on a phrase. Help!

[aquart]

Something that means "technically true, but is really a lie."

My brain is just not working.

[wryter2000]

1. Weasle

That's what Franken calls a "weasle" on Wait, Wait, Don't Lie to Me.

On edit: "Technically true but meant to deceive."

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. Truthiness?

[wryter2000]

5. Truthiness

Truthiness isn't technically true. It's one of those things everyone knows in their guts but isn't actually true.

[jean]

19. haha - exactly. Weasle was my first response

[Vincardog]

3. a Virtual fact (Virtual means not in actual fact)

[patrice]

4. euphemism?

legal fiction
exaggeration
half-truth
artifice

[salin]

6. technicality?

[electron_blue]

7. misleading? partial truth?

[RagingInMiami]

8. how would you use it in a sentence

[eek]

9. convential wisdom, popular belief

?

[Metta]

10. "A half truth is a whole lie." The Talmud.

Those bastards just don't care.

[yewberry]

11. Something adjectival like specious? nt

[abex]

12. white lie

[teach1st]

13. equivocation

equivocation
n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly
avoids an unpleasant truth
2: intentionally vague or ambiguous
3: deliberate vagueness or ambiguity
4: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language tergiversation]

[buddysmellgood]

14. Ostensibly

Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.

[BattyDem]

15. Evasive? Semantics?

:shrug:

On edit: Tautology/Tautological :shrug:

[ewagner]

16. Equivocate?

Prevaricate?

[LWolf]

17. Misleading. "Spin."

Anything that, while technically true, misleads the listener into believing something that is not true.

[tenshi816]

18. How about

"specious argument" - "an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious