I've previously argued that not every untruth deserves to be branded with the L-word, because it implies intent and somebody can state an untruth without doing so knowingly.
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The word "untruth" or a version of it works just fine, and it's far easier to know whether someone spoke an untruth than to know if the person deliberately did so.
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He floated an untruth about "rogue killers" unaffiliated with the crown.
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We can also recover the ancient aesthetics and correct an untruth.
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His slogan was "It's okay," a blatant untruth, especially on The Bachelor.
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"I know Cersei better than anyone here," he says, a blatant untruth.
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Trump is demanding an apology for "untruth" but Michelle is clearly unmoved.
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Today, untruth competes with truth to muddy the issue of climate change.
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Against all of that untruth, telling two fibs about phone calls seems minor.
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It may not be a conscious lie...but it is a dangerous untruth.
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We must state this truth for as long as he revels in untruth.
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It's also plausible that Trump's accusation is an untruth built on some truths.
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What do you do with someone who does not distinguish between truth and untruth?
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With Dima, the line between the concepts of truth and untruth was always shifting.
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In this case, Mr. Trump was trying to get at an even bigger untruth.
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" Bernstein's point: Trump's "default position is to use untruth to go toward his objectives.
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One such claimed "untruth" was that two government ministers had never heard of the app.
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Confronted in a court case about this last untruth, Mr. Trump was anything but chagrined.
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The proportions of truth to untruth shift, and dynamics that seemed latent now seem overt.
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As it turns out, there may be a neurobiological analog to this cascade of untruth.
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So anyone speaking untruth about me personally and my life, led me to my own voice.
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Word to wise: Before you tell another untruth, Ryan Lochte, please put aside your gold medal.
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But any hint of untruth tended to remind voters about "the scandals of the Clinton administration".
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And suddenly a small untruth, juxtaposed with the lie that is his life, begins to snowball.
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The convenient untruth that presidents have unilateral but time-limited war-making power must be rejected.
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Language was a system through which right and wrong — truth and untruth — could be infallibly identified.
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His backers spent three hours excusing their hero of each contradiction or untruth alleged by his foes.
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But we do know that the "nearly four decades" part of his rebuttal is a documented untruth.
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But an American decision taken in the spirit the Trumps now trample with cavalier untruth and vile innuendo.
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This untruth, a miscommunication he failed to correct, was born of wistful, wishful desire rather than malicious intent.
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Mr. Singh's vague and unsubstantiated criticism that our organization fosters extremism is an old repetition of an untruth.
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Another surprising element in the story is that dairnes have a unique power — the ability to detect untruth.
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In a public place, purposefully and specifically, he told a purposeful and specific untruth... Imagine if everyone did it.
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What made the president's year-end New York Times interview notable was repetition of a particular brand of untruth.
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And the media will remain just as eager to report and dissect and amplify his every untruth and slander.
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Characterizing his mother's argument, Fest writes, 'Untruth has always been the weapon of the little people against the powerful.
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Which is, of course, his default attack -- even when he has zero evidence to back up his claims on untruth.
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Every lynching victim, every slaughtered dissident, every rape victim and PTSD-cowed citizen has suffered for a concrete scientific untruth.
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When Trump gains more experience with Putin, he will come to understand Putin's stance with respect to truth and untruth.
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At any moment we can be confronted with an untruth, but it also has wider political impacts on our lives.
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It has fallen victim to Trump's untruth, indecency, racism and contempt for the values without which American greatness is inconceivable.
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If The Washington Post's lie tracker is to be believed, President Trump recently told the 2,000th untruth of his presidency.
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It can be quaint and even clumsy, all of which can give idiocy, incomprehensibility and untruth a false air of authenticity.
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And, that culture of untruth seeps into those who work for Trump -- if they want to work for Trump for long.
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I think what creates a strong connection with customers is when a company has the ability to disprove a globally accepted untruth.
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Yet we wish, somehow, to sort this kind of untruth from the other, darker kind of falsehood that blemishes our public life.
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As with many old saws on Wall Street, there is a little bit of truth, and some outright untruth, to this idea.
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Meanwhile, one Turkish news outlet called it "a confession," and another praised the fact that the government finally "admitted" this edible untruth.
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" Untruth #5: "If you want to have coverage – and we think that everyone should have coverage – we're providing you access to coverage.
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Trump's untruth is timeless because, throughout history, dictators, crooks and torturers have attacked journalists who have brought the truth to the people.
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One particular untruth from President Donald Trump's speech on Wednesday at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio, illustrates just how audaciously he lies.
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As CNN's Chris Cillizza recently put it, he offers the world an untruth more often each day than most people wash their hands.
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I think where America finds itself right now in the moment of untruth under Trump, there are parallels for that in our business.
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But spreading the untruth that our devices are controlling all of our brains actually plays into these companies' hands by making it so.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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How did it come to be that John and James Bradley -- and an entire nation -- built 70 years of history atop a possible untruth?
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Because we need an emotional connection to the song in order to play it live, otherwise it feels like a mechanical act and untruth.
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He's been doing this for years... ...and slams NYT with untruth Another news outlet that drew the president's ire over the weekend was NYT.
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That encompasses any untruth that might harm "public tranquillity", "friendly relations of Singapore with other countries" and "public confidence in the performance of…the government".
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PIRRO: Okay, and the testimonials, I mean, do they attest to things that&aposs happened to them or what they see as untruth or fake?
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And Sessions has sat through enough hearings to know his answers will come back to bite him if there is even an element of untruth.
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Will federal employees be put in the awkward position of having to contradict their boss when he exaggerates or else follow along in his untruth?
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The post-convention Trump free fall has run into the obstinacy of his appeal — an appeal that seems to defy every gaffe, untruth and insult.
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" They claim Crump and his book's publisher defamed Zimmerman "with actual malice knowing the untruth or at a minimum a reckless disregard for the truth.
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At the time, it would have been hard to imagine that the United States would soon join Russia as a source of weaponized untruth in Ukraine.
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While there is a huge amount of bluster and untruth spun out of Pyongyang, sometimes when North Korean state organs talk, they mean precisely what they say.
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Use the accumulation of unproven accusations as evidence of their plausibility, rather than as charges to be investigated separately or as variations of the same fundamental untruth.
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" Trump has shown other politicians, Farrell continued, that it is now "far easier to get away with lying and untruth and not lose support from your voters.
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And though the accusation about Obama got the most play because of its sheer unbelievability, it was hardly the only untruth uttered by Trump at Monday's press conference.
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The media, in turn, feels like they have to represent all of the American people, and they're willing to do so even at the cost of reporting untruth.
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But when its lies are so painstakingly and publicly unpicked, and its veneer of untruth ripped away, there is undoubtedly reputational damage to the authority of Vladimir Putin.
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But some untruths are not at all trivial, such as the seminal untruth of the President's political career, the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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" Moynihan said the resolution was "a political lie of a variety well known to the 20th century, and scarcely exceeded in all that annal of untruth and outrage.
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But many untruths are not at all trivial -- such as the seminal untruth of the president's political career - the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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But many untruths are not at all trivial – such as the seminal untruth of the president's political career - the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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Mr Trump is not that better man, so instead served up his concession like a sandwich of cynicism: a sliver of truth, between two thick slices of deliberate untruth.
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Ratesic's Golden State is certainly an oppressive society; its people are surveilled and policed for any minor infraction or untruth, with harsh punishments for those who step out of line.
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This was terrifying, despite the petty stupidity of the untruth, because Americans were not yet used to being told to believe government diktats over the clear evidence of their senses.
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There are many things that concern me about the Trump presidency — in fact, few don't — but the frivolous blurring of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, is the most grave.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the embodiment of Myanmar's democratic quest, is trying to wrest her country from the claws of the army, but also from untruth, opacity and fear.
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Part of the reason is that, by spreading untruth and outrage, corroding voters' judgment and aggravating partisanship, social media erode the conditions for the horse-trading that Crick thought fosters liberty.
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The convenient untruth, whose side-effect has been to deepen Taiwan's diplomatic isolation, was formulated when dictatorships in both Beijing and Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, claimed to rule all of China.
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" Earlier this month, she was criticized for calling Trump a "white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists" — comments Trump demanded ESPN apologize for, calling them an "untruth.
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Johnson, a former journalist with a talent for trenchant comments that his critics say sometimes tip over into untruth, said his utterances over a three-decade career had often been "misconstrued".
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Trump demanded an apology for the "untruth" on Twitter, but ESPN decided not to suspend her at the time because of the context of the tweet, according to CEO Bob Iger.
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President Trump addressed ESPN on Twitter this morning, asking them to apologize for their "untruth": What he's referring to: ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted Monday that Trump is a white supremacist.
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Indeed, he's taken the alarming step of appointing the former head of one of the most blatant peddlers of untruth, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart, to be his White House chief strategist.
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The speaker, as titular head of the Republican party, was forced to react to every untruth, exaggeration and attack leveled by the real estate magnate during the course of the 2016 campaign.
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CreditCreditMladen Antonov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — There is a saying in figure skating, full of truth and untruth, that jumpers can't be artists and artists can't be jumpers.
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Questioning the legitimacy of video proof of his own mistakes is the logical next step of the weaponizing of untruth that Trump has pursued since he became a candidate for president in 2015.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — It takes a great deal of awareness to identify the moment when a fanciful notion becomes a blatant untruth, and from there, perhaps a destructive ideology.
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"It is a counterweight to what is happening to us with sanctions, double standards, untruth, fakes and lies," said Mikhalkov, who has a regular TV show which he often uses to berate the West.
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Supporting him means, to use conservative journalist Salena Zito's memorable phrase, taking him "seriously, but not literally"—in other words dismissing or discounting the metric tonnage of untruth that comes out of his mouth.
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This sentence is a word salad designed to ratchet up the hyperbole, until it crosses into the realm of untruth: The Affordable Care Act didn't actually require anyone to "buy" birth control or subsidize abortions.
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What might seem like a casual and routine untruth, so casual and routine that it has now become the white noise of Washington, is in fact a serious lapse in the defense of our country.
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In the book, you say that the point of a disinformation campaign is not to get people to believe untruth things; it's to get them to doubt whether facts and truths are knowable at all.
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" Highlights: "Personally, I have never met anyone whose behavior can be described as perfect, but so often has the president repeated this obvious untruth that it has become a form of dogma in our party.
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"By telling a deliberate untruth on facts central to the decision of this case, the minister has committed a breach of the constitution so serious that I would characterise it as a violation," the ruling read.
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What might seem like a casual and routine untruth -- so casual and routine that it has by now become the white noise of Washington - is in fact a serious lapse in the defense of our country.
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What might seem like a casual and routine untruth – so casual and routine that it has by now become the white noise of Washington - is in fact a serious lapse in the defense of our country.
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Mr. Scorsese has done something similar — not by listening in illegally and publishing humiliating truths, as the F.B.I. did, but by usurping Chuckie's relationship with Mr. Hoffa, giving it to someone else and then broadcasting the untruth.
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I think it basically comes down to something Ken Auletta said in the film: What a demagogue does is throw out an untruth or a lie and then stands back and watches as that fills the void.
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Name Withheld Résumés typically take a rosy view — prospective employers aren't shocked by the job applicant who upgrades his merely proficient Tagalog to "fluent" — but putting things in a favorable light is different from asserting a flagrant untruth.
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When Trump attacks CNN and CNN International, among the finest and most respected international news organizations in the world, he is telling a timeless untruth and endangering some of the finest and most courageous journalists in the world.
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But one untruth we just can't get over is when an adult film actress performs oral sex for an extended period of time, and then when she's done, she appears with her lipstick not even slightly faded or smudged.
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"We have had presidents in the past who have lied ... but what we have never had is a President of the United States who uses lying and untruth as a basic method to promote his policies," says @CarlBernstein pic.twitter.
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Instead, the untruth is often first published by an obscure website posing as a legitimate news site, then several and sometimes dozens of other unreliable sites republish the same story, often verbatim or with just a few words changed.
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Also: "Too many people have been waiting for Robert Mueller to formally say what we already know to be true: The levels of corruption, conflict of interest, and untruth in this administration are without parallel," Slate's Dahlia Lithwick writes.
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The various allegations of subsidies for oil and gas exploration and development have been refuted over and over but environmental advocacy organizations keep making them in the hope that repeating an untruth over and over will someday make it a fact.
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But there are examples of untruth every time you open Facebook and read about Klansman committing suicide because Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill, or scroll past the Republican Party's Twitter account when it's inventing Abraham Lincoln quotes.
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To the effort to undermine confidence in the federal courts, federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, and the free press to perhaps the most vexing untruth of all, the supposed hoax at the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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While that's an untruth I actively encouraged when it came to convincing my sports teachers I couldn't get in the pool once I hit puberty, it's kind of gross that period taboos have left so many of us in the dark about menstruation.
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"But what we have never had is a president of the United States who uses lying and untruth as a basic method to promote his policies, his beliefs and his way of approaching the American people and engaging in the world," he contended.
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Early on in Donald Trump's presidency when discussing the use of chemical weapons in Syria, his first press secretary, Sean Spicer, uttered a bold-faced untruth -- that Hitler never gassed his own people -- thus erasing the genocide of German Jews by their leader.
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But it does no real good in these circles to dispute this sham narrative; it has become a popular talking point among Christian nationalist leadership and is thus in all likelihood too valuable in activating the base to retire on grounds of its manifest untruth.
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With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed "reality" in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience's addiction to the melodrama.
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I don't know, I have a little bit of an alternative-fact view on this where it is true that I think the media had for a little while, is somehow ridiculous to debate about whether or not you can call a flagrant untruth from President Trump a lie.
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His exposition of the politics of storytelling ("choosing certain stories and not others means taking a side") and the task of the writer ("to battle untruth") is eloquent, though I fear more likely to deter than move those who have already made up their minds on the issue.
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It was incomprehensible, given the ease with untruth that she'd already demonstrated, and the lack of legal consequences, that she did not simply lie and say that she now remembered that Mohammed had come to her apartment that night, that it must have been him and not Abdelkader.
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As Brendan Nyhan of the University of Michigan has pointed out, while it's reasonable to worry about lies online, what we should really be up in arms about are the lies of "elites" — politicians, anchors, pundits and their spin doctors — who transform latent misinformation into comprehensive narratives of untruth.
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Gordon writes: With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed "reality" in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience's addiction to the melodrama.
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Asked about Nasheed's comments, China's Foreign Ministry said that its ambassador in the Maldives had rejected "this untruth" in statements to local media, referring to an interview with news website Avas in which Zhang was quoted as saying reports of debt of around $3 billion were "deeply exaggerated".
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And that moment raises questions about the state of democracy, an Economist editorial contends, citing the political theorist Bernard Crick: Part of the reason is that, by spreading untruth and outrage, corroding voters' judgment and aggravating partisanship, social media erode the conditions for the horse-trading that Crick thought fosters liberty.
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Fact-checking and hyper-editorializing the news is something journalists are having to think about a lot these days with the concerned hand-flapping that arises with the daily untruth erupting from the campaigns, but what have we come to when our papers gladly print dated and beyond classless sayings like that?
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If, for example, a journalist quoted (accurately) an unreliable source who claimed that Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government had ties to Al Qaeda, and an administration official cited (accurately) the journalist's work to support military intervention, the hands of every fact-checker involved in the production and distribution of this untruth would be tied.
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The president's lying (the Fact Checker does not use the word "lie" under a policy set by Marty Baron, The Post's editor) is so deeply ingrained (Kessler found that when Trump was running for president, "nearly 65 percent of the claims we looked at resulted in four Pinocchios") that Trump and untruth are synonymous.
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The lie that there were weapons of mass destruction and the subsequent invasion of Iraq, claims by Thabo Mbeki, then the South African President, that AIDS was not caused by H.I.V., and by his minister of health that it could be cured with garlic and lemon juice—these kinds of untruth put Tillmans in a state of distraction.
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Over the past 50 years or so, the culture and the techniques of commercial speech — of segmenting markets to generate intensity, of exaggerating claims to the margin of untruth, of relentless promotion — have infested every aspect of our culture, including news reporting and political campaigning; they have made our culture all about money, and cheapened it in the process.
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Whether it's his claims that the FDA had approved an anti-malarial vaccine to be used to treat coronavirus (they hadn't), his insistence that things are getting better (the US surgeon general said Monday "this week it's going to get bad") or his claim that GM and Ford are making ventilators (they aren't), there's a demonstrated pattern of untruth here by the President.
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Also not trivial are the equally pernicious fantasies about rigged elections and massive voter fraud, which are as destructive as they are inaccurate -- to the effort to undermine confidence in the federal courts, federal law enforcement, the intelligence community and the free press, to perhaps the most vexing untruth of all -- the supposed "hoax" at the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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Also not trivial are the equally pernicious fantasies about rigged elections and massive voter fraud, which are as destructive as they are inaccurate – to the effort to undermine confidence in the federal courts, federal law enforcement, the intelligence community and the free press, to perhaps the most vexing untruth of all – the supposed "hoax" at the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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Nor the cost to society from hate speech whose very purpose is to rip up the social fabric and take down civic values — and, in the case of Jones' particular bilious flavor, to further bang the drum of abuse via the medium of toxic disinformation — to further amplify and spread his pollution, via the power of untruth — to whip up masses of non-critically thinking conspiracy-prone followers.
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"She didn't listen to that and that's fine, I mean, she's got to do what she's got to do," said Trump, who was forced into a rare apology last year after hammering May's Brexit strategy on the eve of meeting her in the UK. He also repeated the untruth that he predicted the result of the British referendum when he flew into his Turnberry golf course in 2016.
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In 2000, when I was on trial in London for libel, having been sued by David Irving -- then one of the world's leading Holocaust deniers -- for having called him a denier in one of my books, my defense team tracked all of his "proofs" back to their sources and found that imbedded in each of his historical claims was a falsification, invention, distortion, change of date, or some other form of untruth.
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If you peruse the Starbucks website, you'll find several pieces of merchandise that prove otherwise, including Christmas ornaments, an advent calendar, and "Christmas blend" coffee: There's also a Starbucks "Christmas" gift card: But Feuerstein's most blatant untruth, and the reason for all the current furor about the 2015 red cup, is the implication that Starbucks at one time printed the word "Christmas" on its holiday cups and is now being stifled or stifling itself from doing so.
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Also not trivial are the equally pernicious fantasies about rigged elections and massive voter fraud, which are as destructive as they are inaccurate – to the effort to undermine confidence in the federal courts, federal law enforcement, the intelligence community and the free press, to perhaps the most vexing untruth of all – the supposed "hoax" at the heart of special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's Russia investigation.
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