Mendacious campaigning mirrored by partisan media amplified the sense of betrayal.
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He remains true to himself – proudly ignorant, blustering and serially mendacious.
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A veteran diplomat, Bilahari Kausikan, called them "muddled, mendacious and indeed dangerous".
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Earnest critics accused Ms Bensedrine of mismanagement; mendacious ones called her corrupt.
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Moral relativism, we have learned yet again, tends to benefit mendacious demagogues.
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To survivors' despair, this mendacious, brutal man returned triumphant to the United States.
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No, you will only read lies demonizing the Jewish state with mendacious propaganda.
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But such concerns, when dealing with a totalitarian and mendacious regime, are misplaced.
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Given that the NFL reportedly stands by Miller's admission, it now looks mendacious.
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To be clear, I'll be appalled if Trump adopts the mendacious strategy I'm describing.
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In the process, he excoriates what he calls a Brexit betrayal by mendacious elites.
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Worse, there is little evidence that the fees have deterred only frivolous or mendacious claims.
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In this account, Trump is as he ever was: craven, feckless, moody, narcissistic, mendacious, forgetful.
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Indeed, Clinton's conduct with her email system was reprehensible, as were her mendacious defenses of it.
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There could be more to it than preserving the president-elect's mendacious "drain-the-swamp" pledge.
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He's made his own vice president's comments on Wednesday look either totally clueless or willfully mendacious.
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To show loyalty you have to engage in the corrupt or mendacious behavior he engages in.
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Trump's often mendacious torrents of stilted rhetoric have already crushed common ground at home and polarized America.
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Trump is habitually mendacious in a way that goes far beyond the normal deceptions of political rhetoric.
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But despite her medical education, Stein has chosen to go down the mendacious road of identity politics.
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Perhaps no promise was more audacious — and mendacious, critics say — than the £350-million-a-week claim.
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Yet it's clear that Silicon Valley startups need not be as mendacious as Theranos to cause harm.
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A little bit of desperation can go a long way toward lining the pockets of a mendacious medium.
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Personally, I loathe this administration and find the president's actions mean, maleficent, and mendacious, though it's nothing personal.
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Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.
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When Hanif's English-language reporting has exposed corrupt or mendacious leaders, the official reaction has often been benign.
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In my career, I've never known a national politician as mendacious, ill informed, bombastic and dangerous as Trump.
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They continue to repeat the same mendacious talking-points even if they have been revealed to be bogus.
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Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear," which began circulating on Tuesday, portrays Trump as ill-informed, incurious, impetuous, and mendacious.
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And nothing about Trump's overly defensive, excessively pouty and sometimes outright mendacious performance beckoned those voters to his side.
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Because with everything you're reading, not only are the opposing views wrong, it's mendacious, it's evil, it's a lie.
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So whether it's the idea that Twitter "shadow bans" right-wing conservatives or that Facebook and YouTube have made a left-leaning decision that a vile and mendacious actor like the Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones perhaps needs to be thrown off services for his vile and mendacious behavior, it's all codswallop.
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" Himes apologized for the witnesses for the one-sided hearing, called the GOP decision "as wrongheaded as it is mendacious.
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The Democratic Party needs to be the party that puts public welfare above the interests of the venal and mendacious.
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He said the party's claim that it had investigated every allegation of anti-Semitism among its members was a "mendacious fiction".
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This, after all, was Plato's objection to the arts and every kind of artistic effect — that it was manipulative and potentially mendacious.
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" He assailed the state's chief witness against her, a former household custodian, as "a serial liar" peddling a "delusional and mendacious story.
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Mr. Netanyahu called the allegations "delusional and mendacious" and questioned whether people who make such charges can be impartial in their investigation.
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His performance earned the most mendacious rating possible in a Washington Post fact check and launched the mocking hashtag #SpicerFacts on Twitter.
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The bidding process has become so mendacious that the only ones left seriously bidding to host the games are the world's authoritarian dictatorships.
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As I noted in the CNN chyron story, the shift is partly an adaptation by impartial media outlets to a uniquely mendacious candidate.
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Inspector O is a complex, nuanced figure who understands that the regime he serves is corrupt, brutal and mendacious, but he remains loyal.
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It is an unashamed apologia for treachery on the grand scale, a book about deception that is also, in large parts, entirely mendacious.
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Phil Wilson, a centrist Labour MP, said it was "mendacious nonsense" to suggest that Brexit was the primary cause of the election result.
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" Wilkie seemed to share those views since he characterized the radical abolitionists in Congress as being as "mendacious as the Jacobins of Revolutionary France.
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While fighting extremism in the region remains the challenge of our time, it is mendacious for Iran to portray itself as an innocent bystander.
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In the case of India, the role of institutional rot — venal legislators, a mendacious media — and the elites' moral and intellectual truancy is clear.
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" Mr. Netanyahu excoriated Mr. Alsheich for "repeating the delusional and mendacious insinuation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent private detectives against police officers investigating him.
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He contrasted mendacious cult activity — like the Moonies, or being part of Trump&aposs circle — with healthy cult activity, like really liking a sports team.
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There are the Republicans themselves, who have gone to extravagant, mendacious lengths to ruin Biden's electoral hopes and destroy his good name in the effort.
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Later in the article, he called it a "mendacious fiction" that Labour was doing everything it could to stamp out anti-Semitism in the party.
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If they are right, Team Trump genuinely had more faith in the murderous, mendacious, kleptocratic, autocratic, anti-Western Putin administration than in America's national security apparatus.
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He has spent the past four years portraying his fellow Senate Republicans as mendacious sellouts, which might be why not a single senator has endorsed him.
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Suddenly, the film's outlandish premise felt all too real and "Wag the Dog" had become a metonym for political theater at its most craven and mendacious.
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Meanwhile in the Arriyadh Arabic language paper, Fahad al Harthy insists that the entire saga is a mendacious plot against the very future of Saudi Arabia.
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According to one of Mrs Merkel's aides, Mr Putin's mendacious denials that the "green men" who seized Crimea were Russian soldiers were a turning point for her.
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It is mendacious, Mr Carrère suggests, for authors to pretend that they exist above or outside a rigorously crafted piece of writing, as Capote did for instance.
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" Repeating his withering criticism in a column published on Wednesday in the liberal newspaper Haaretz, he wrote, "We accepted the mendacious official Polish narrative, and swallowed it.
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It's impossible, I know, to go #NoLogo on all brands, but anything we can do to separate ourselves from mendacious corporations is a step in the right direction.
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The conference ended up shining a bright light on Saudi Arabia at exactly the time when the world was most focused on its most homicidal and mendacious tendencies.
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John StelzelIndianapolis To the Editor: It's no surprise to anyone who has followed politics even marginally closely these past few years that Mike Pence is mendacious and fanatical.
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This week, Alex Jones, the persistently mendacious conspiracy-theory spouter — yeah, that's a real job in 2018 — finally became the ultimate swipe left of the social media age.
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But the McConnell gang's activities, especially their mendacious and noxious substance and character, made it more likely rather than less that Mr. Moore would emerge as the nominee.
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A story about children who are taken from their parents and warehoused, government camps, and a callous, mendacious authoritarian president couldn't be much more relevant in the Trump era.
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He demonstrated on several occasions his formidable debating skills; for example when spinning a mendacious explanation for why his campaign team had sought to nobble Ben Carson in Iowa.
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Iran's military sites remain off limits to weapons' inspections, and the notion of "snap-back sanctions" turns out to have been a mendacious fiction of White House communications strategy.
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Yes, they do — and if the U.K. fragments and Britain's economy continues to decline, it will be because of the foolhardy and mendacious campaign by Johnson and his enablers.
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He said they had "joined the chorus of besmirching Israel" and had repeated "the mendacious claim that 'the occupation and settlements' are the cause" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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"Fox and His Friends" (on Saturday) stars Fassbinder himself as an openhearted carnival worker who, after winning the lottery, is progressively fleeced by members of a mendacious upper crust.
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Particularly when Sanders's own administration is fighting to let private businesses discriminate against gay people, who, unlike mendacious press secretaries, are a protected class under many civil rights laws.
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As is often the case with Trump, it's difficult to tell whether he is being mendacious (or ignorant) about what his administration is doing, or attempting to change it.
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The problem is that much of the response on the right has included nasty and mendacious personal attacks on the students, not rational arguments about the wisdom of gun control.
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What President Trump did was no different from what prosecutors, defense attorneys, policemen, FBI agents and others do every day in an effort to elicit truthful testimony from mendacious witnesses.
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Some, including leaders of Hungarian Jewish groups, called this an anti-Semitic dog whistle, playing on the old trope of the wandering, rootless, mendacious Jew, sowing discord with ill-gotten wealth.
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His well-written memoir, which combines a powerful argument for principled leadership with some acid comment on Donald Trump's mendacious, "ego driven" alternative, contains a lot of advice to the contrary.
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Rather than predictably repeating mendacious falsehoods that increase our ignorance, they should act as stewards of the public interest, choosing news content and media frames that add to our collective understanding.
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But two years and 10 Uncarrier events later, T-Mobile CEO John Legere is sounding less like a renegade and more like the mendacious suits he loves to pretend he's usurping.
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The Netanyahu family attorneys in the law office of Dr. J. Weinroth and Co. described the allegations of the maintenance worker as "mendacious" and said they had no basis in reality.
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If a share prospectus was as mendacious as the Leave campaign, not only would a buyer be entitled to compensation but the sellers and their advisers would be liable to prosecution.
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There he put together the team that produced a series of commercials for Isuzu cars and trucks featuring Joe Isuzu, a blatantly mendacious fictional dealer, played by the actor David Leisure.
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Aside from a can of beer and a dog whose name cannot be published in this space, few things made her happier than a lawmaker who was mendacious, greedy and inept.
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Tribalism is what turns so many discussions about energy into an emotive shouting match between opponents who accuse each other of being at best uninformed and incompetent or at worst mendacious.
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Yet frustratingly, five episodes in and with four more go to, we are barely any closer to knowing what turned Andrew Cunanan into a pathologically mendacious psychopath, much less a killer.
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With all of its pejorative connotations, "Ponzi scheme" may actually be a bit unfair to Ponzi, conjuring up someone who was more mendacious and greedy than the real Ponzi actually was.
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At the same time that Mr. Trump continues to exhibit paranoia about American intelligence agencies, he displays a trust verging on gullibility in the mendacious and murderous government of Mr. Putin.
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But lately we've crossed beyond the strategic use of insinuating, vaguely mendacious political vocabulary, into something even stranger: political language used in such a bloodless, begrudging way that it's borderline dangerous.
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They see the NRA and its allies—whether mealymouthed politicians or mendacious commentators peddling conspiracy theories—as mere shills for those who make money selling weapons of war to whoever can pay.
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" Wilkie said the radical abolitionists in Congress were "as mendacious as the Jacobins of Revolutionary France" and called those who funded the abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry "enemies of liberty.
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In 2015, for instance, Smith told his staff it would be "entirely fair to call [Trump] a mendacious racist" on social media, because, he claimed, his team's reporting had proven that out.
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Though he's more paranoid than Richard Nixon and more mendacious than Bill Clinton, he seems bent on following them down a road to hell: a confrontation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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How do you end up with a gangster like Trump, who's not just mediocre, but below mediocre — he's mendacious, he's narcissistic, he's racist, he's misogynist, and yet, he's the head of the American empire.
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"I received a letter this morning explaining the Republican absence from this hearing, which is as wrongheaded as it is mendacious," said Himes, the chairman of the Intelligence Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research.
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Donald Trump grows more thuggish and mendacious by the day; "gaslighting," a term taken from a play about an abusive husband trying to drive his wife insane, has become a byword of our national life.
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The premonitory nature of "Formation" as a protest song speaks volumes when you consider that the track was released in February 2016, nine months before Donald Trump, the "mendacious racist," won that year's presidential election.
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But there's this other really mendacious level of promising that your future earnings and your future job will be tied up with what happens to you in college—and not really by anything you learn there.
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And most Libras won't admit—even to themselves—that the intent behind their benevolently mendacious diplomatic efforts isn't totally pure: As a social air sign, nothing terrifies a Libra more than being disliked by literally anyone.
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"This notion that Zuckerberg is in the middle is totally mendacious, because everything his company has championed, everything that he has championed, has been to the detriment of conservatives at large," Gab COO Utsav Sanduja said.
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And Mr. Trump, perhaps "more able and more fortunate than his competitors," stumbled to victory using mendacious appeals to voters squeezed by a greedy economy — even though Mr. Trump had himself profited handsomely from that economy.
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Temer said it was "irresponsible, ridiculous, mendacious and criminal" to suggest, as Machado did, that he had sought campaign funds for his party from the graft scheme, the first direct link implicating Temer in the scandal.
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He's a mendacious narcissist who is very much out of his depth in the White House; his administration has been plagued by scandals that would have brought down any other organization with even an ounce of shame.
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While the Brexiters led a misleading and mendacious campaign that was disturbing in its brazenness, Prime Minister Theresa May's refusal to confirm unequivocally the acquired rights of EU citizens living in the UK is much more worrying.
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" In an interview with The Times newspaper on Tuesday, Ephraim Mirvis claimed that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had failed to eradicate anti-Jewish sentiment from the party and any claims to the contrary were a "mendacious fiction.
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"These scandalous and mendacious assumptions are driven by sensationalism and we totally refute these outrageous false allegations in the strongest possible way," a spokesperson for Deripaska told the AP in an email soon after Navalny's video was launched.
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In an unusual statement last month, Shin Bet rejected what it described as a "campaign of mendacious defamation" against the agency and its staff, and said it was investigating a "Jewish terrorist network" that was planning future attacks.
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By contrast, today, just a dozen years after Facebook became a "thing" in our lives, we are forced to grapple with whether and how we should regulate hateful postings and mendacious foreign electoral influence on social media platforms.
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Smith has made it quite clear, on dozens of occasions, that he isn't a fan of Trump, even going so far to instruct his staff to refer to him as a "mendacious racist" and "liar," if they so choose.
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Mr. Temer said it was "irresponsible, ridiculous, mendacious and criminal" to suggest, as Mr. Machado did, that he had sought campaign funds for his party from the graft scheme, the first direct link implicating Mr. Temer in the scandal.
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Donald J. Trump has been upsetting the status quo ever since he descended the escalator in Trump Tower to disrupt the make-believe world of mendacious politicians mouthing meaningless talking points and the media that pretend to believe them.
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Machine learning algorithms care ONLY about components of their objective functions: They will automatically and blindly maximize the time people spend engaging with content, indifferent to whether that means showing a user mendacious foreign propaganda or the latest peer-reviewed scientific paper.
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These include the existence of a parallel media universe, with its own story-lines, running narratives and beliefs; a fervent belief that the "mainstream media" is a mendacious arm of the liberal left, and a hunch that opinion polls are skewed against conservatives.
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It's that they will never do what the partisan viewing public that makes up the vast majority of the audience wants – attack the other candidate's positions and reveal them to be a mendacious liar who didn't have the courage answer the hard question.
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When Mr. Trump's defenders use the fact that the president has employed and encouraged a handful of women — to, as we now know, also serve as his uncompensated therapists — as a shield against accusations of sexism, they are deploying a similarly mendacious argument.
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Nighy is one of the best actors at putting hilariously mendacious spins on random words, and when I first heard him say the word "Pokémon" in the movie's early going, I knew I was going to be in the tank for this thing.
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The 2020 election will determine whether this retro backlash has run its course or whether Trump's malign and mendacious political skills, together with the prominence within the Democratic Party of a vociferous left cadre, will return the 45th president to a second term.
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And, ahead of this election, The Jewish Chronicle used its front page in early November to call on voters to reject Corbyn, and the UK's chief rabbi called a "mendacious fiction" that the Labour party has ended anti-Semitism within the party.
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In a move reminiscent of the Nigel Farage 'Breaking Point' van and the mendacious 'Fund our NHS' battle bus, someone on the Wenger Out spectrum has used their hard-earned money to fund a matchday campaign van with various anti-Wenger slogans on the side.
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ACCEPTING the Republican Party's presidential nomination in Cleveland on July 21st, Donald Trump hailed himself as an American Caesar, sacrificing a life of private ease to enter the public arena and save a republic sunk in decadence, and betrayed by its corrupt and mendacious elites.
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Flummoxed and craven Republicans scramble to go along with a president who has turned the traditional heroes and villains of the G.O.P. topsy-turvy, berating our European allies, NATO, the N.F.L., the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and canoodling with the mendacious and scheming Russians.
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We have created the market and the mess, and the Russian troll factory, however mendacious, should be seen not as a cause, but as a loud warning that democracy as we know it, as we have celebrated it for so long, is in peril.
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Just last week, Vice President Mike Pence authored a mendacious op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which touted one senator's vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson as a profile in courage, despite historians' agreement that the senator was, in fact, likely bribed.
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In the blue corner: a Conservative Party stuffed with Union Jack-waving hard Brexiteers led by a mendacious showman who promises a break from Britain's biggest trading partner followed by a "best in class" comprehensive free-trade deal with the EU, all within the next 12 months.
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We are faced with the Hobbesian choice of a reality TV star with no political experience who sounds like a cross between a carnival barker and a sports announcer and a mendacious, paranoid, pandering partisan with a used car salesman's pitch without a whiff of the greasy charisma.
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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has lashed out at the country's police chief, whom he accused of airing "delusional and mendacious" insinuations against him, just days before the police are expected to publish recommendations regarding potential charges against Mr. Netanyahu in two corruption investigations, possibly including bribery.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump's Lies," by David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson (Op-Chart, Sunday Review, June 25): I greatly appreciate the presentation of President Trump's lies over these last five months, but I doubt that their publication will deter this president from continuing his mendacious behavior.
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Mr. O'Reilly is said to have gotten as much as $25 million for leaving Fox, and the right to maintain that the sexual harassment claims are "completely unfounded" and that his accusers are a pack of mendacious liars looking for an easy payday from a vulnerable public figure.
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And though Bee has some sympathy for everyone who has to fact-check the "mendacious geyser of vomit that spews nonstop from the Trump campaign," she took the time she had to point out that even if that's hard, that's kind of what newsrooms are supposed to do.
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The problem, both in the original WSJ report (which now reads far more skeptical about the White House rejoining the Paris Agreement) and re-blogs from other outlets, is this line is so mendacious that even reporting it straight gives unearned credit to what's essentially a Fox News talking point.
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The Bush Administration was mendacious, but at least it was predictable—the co-hosts had to work hard to build a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, but they didn't have to worry that they'd wake up one morning to find that the Administration was now blaming the attack on Sudan.
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In his victory speech, perhaps for the first time, he effectively conflated the agonies of his own life -- after burying a young wife and two children, suffering a life-threatening brain aneurysm and flaming out in two previous White House campaigns -- with a party and a nation he believes have been battered by a mendacious president.
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Scott was among those shocked by how hastily and ruthlessly the British, who had ruled India for more than a century, condemned it to fragmentation and anarchy; how Louis Mountbatten, accurately described by the right-wing historian Andrew Roberts as a "mendacious, intellectually limited hustler," came to preside, as the last British viceroy of India, over the destiny of some 19983 million people.
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In this theory of the case, you can explain all of Trump's Russia-related behavior simply by finding him guilty of being the person we always knew him to be — vain, mendacious, self-serving, sleazy and absurdly stubborn, with a purely personalized understanding of allies and adversaries, a not-so-sneaking admiration for strongmen and the information filter of an old man who prefers his own reality to the discomforts of contrary information.
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Increasingly, the press doesn't even pretend to treat Trump like a normal candidate: CNN's chyrons fact-check him in real time; the Washington Post reacted to being banned from Trump with a shrug; BuzzFeed News published a memo telling reporters it was fine to call Trump "a mendacious racist" on social media; the New York Times published a viral video in which it simply quoted the most vile statements it heard from Trump's supporters.
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Over the eight previous episodes, starting with Versace's killing, the series drew us back in time, through Cunanan's killings of four other people; his career as a drug addict and escort; his resentment of the fame and accomplishment of other gay men; his odd childhood; his troubled relationship with his doting but oppressive and mendacious father; and — in the closest thing to a "Rosebud" moment — an imagined encounter between Cunanan and Versace years before the murders.
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From David Cameron, who recklessly gambled his country's future on a referendum in order to isolate some whingers in his Conservative Party, to the opportunistic Boris Johnson, who jumped on the Brexit bandwagon to secure the prime ministerial chair once warmed by his role model Winston Churchill, and the top-hatted, theatrically retro Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose fund management company has set up an office within the European Union even as he vehemently scorns it, the British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.
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