{"id":944,"date":"2014-06-20T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-08-14T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:37:15","slug":"what-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"What is a lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this post back in October of 2013 but didn’t publish it so as to let some people cool down. \u00c2\u00a0I think it’s quite relevant now.<\/p>\n

Definition of\u00c2\u00a0LIE<\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/div>\n
a\u00c2\u00a0:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with\u00c2\u00a0intent<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to deceive<\/p>\n
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b\u00c2\u00a0:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/div>\n
:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 something that\u00c2\u00a0misleads<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or deceives<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3<\/div>\n
:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 a charge of lying (see\u00c2\u00a03<\/sup>lie<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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“If you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor.”<\/div>\n
Well that fits 1b and 2 quite nicely regardless of whether you believe Obama knew the truth or not. \u00c2\u00a0The fact is he lied. \u00c2\u00a0Did he know he was lying? \u00c2\u00a0I don’t know how he couldn’t have if he truly understood his bill but even if we accept that he didn’t really know it all that does is show that he is clueless.<\/div>\n
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“I learned about Fast and Furious when it appeared in the newspapers.”<\/div>\n
Again 1b and 2. \u00c2\u00a0Again the same charge.<\/div>\n
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In fact what becomes quite clear is that our president is either the most clueless president we’ve ever had or the most deceitful. \u00c2\u00a0He is always the last to know if we believe what he tells us. \u00c2\u00a0Do you think he really didn’t know the US was spying on our allies? \u00c2\u00a0We’ve been doing it for decades. \u00c2\u00a0I knew, how could he not know?<\/div>\n
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This president has run our country into the ground. \u00c2\u00a0Those of you who voted for him have to at least be getting a bit of a clue that he’s not the savior you envisioned. \u00c2\u00a0The light must be coming on that all those things he promised you were just smoke and mirrors. \u00c2\u00a0Yes folks, this president has no clothes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this post back in October of 2013 but didn’t publish it so as to let some people cool down. \u00c2\u00a0I think it’s quite relevant now. Definition of\u00c2\u00a0LIE 1 a\u00c2\u00a0:\u00c2\u00a0 an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with\u00c2\u00a0intent\u00c2\u00a0to deceive b\u00c2\u00a0:\u00c2\u00a0 an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}