Hoe many ways can you say LIED????

[napi21]

Tweety really got ticked at one of his guests today when he was smiling about Newt callin Obama a Kenyan, and he yelled "It's NOT FUNNY!"

But beyond that, both that guest & Howard Fineman said things like "FACTUAL INACURACY & fACTUALLY FALSE THAT WAS A FALSEHOOD"!

HOW DAMN MANY WAYS CAN YOU CALL SOMEONE A LIAR WITHOUT JUST COMING OUT & SAYING IT!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr...

[AnArmyVeteran]

1. That posses me off too. Why don't they just call them liars? !!!!!!!!!

[Blue Owl]

3. Lying SACKS OF SHIT

They are so very loathesome; and it is sickening to see the rightwing nutjobs "get away with it" time after time.

Call 'em out, I say.

:mad:

[ClarkJonathanKent]

4. It's sad.

People treat facts as opinions and opinions as facts. A person clearly lies and you have to pretend he didn't. A person thinks he speaks for God and you have to treat him like that might be true. It's insane.

[AnArmyVeteran]

13. I know several people who believe 'god' is speaking thru Beck.

It's scary when you think how ignorant and stupid people have to be to believe that nonsense. They lap up all of Beck's words like they are gospel even though Beck makes his living by bearing false witness against his neighbors, a violation of their God's Commandments. I am truly amazed at their stupidity.

[spanone]

2. the thugs aren't afraid to call the President a liar...to his face

on national teevee

ala joe wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foOioaQf-c8

[bluefin]

5. That was hilarious!

Uncalled for but still really funny!

[SusanaMontana41]

8. I didn't find it funny at all.

My $.02.

[Cal33]

14. Treating them like gentlemen is like "casting pearls before swine".

Yet Obama continues to treat them like gentlemen. So these swine "turn on him and tear
at him." It's exactly as written in the New Testament.

[nosmokes]

6. I dunno. Toe many?

[rucky]

15. Loeve the hoemor to Boehner.

[TheMuse]

7. They almost refuse to say it

You don't see any pundits, anchors, columists, etc say someone lied. They say mispoke, factually inaccurate. I don't know when it became against the rules to call out someone for lying. It is almost like they don't want to step on anyones toes and dance around it.

[napi21]

9. I think it must be a TV network thing because Big Eddie

calls them out as liars on his radio show but NEVER on his TV show.

[jberryhill]

10. "Liar" is a personal characterization, "Willfully false statement" is directed to the words /nt

[Fumesucker]

11. People who make willfully false statements are liars..

And willfully false statements are indeed lies.

The two terms are semantically equivalent.

[jberryhill]

16. Yes

However, in polite conversation, one does not make personal characterizations.

I baked a cake once. Am I a baker?

[Fumesucker]

17. There is a another way to phrase the same root word so that is not a personal characterization..

"You lie."

[CLANG]

12. I think I know the answer

Being "factually inaccurate" or "false" does not imply motive - the person could just be ill-informed. Lying implies willfully representing falsehoods as fact.