![]() ![]() I can tell you what he said and how that squares, or doesn’t, with facts.” Without the ability to peer into Donald Trump’s head, I can’t tell you what his intent was. says she went to the Oxford English Dictionary seeking the definition of “lie.” “A false statement made with intent to deceive,” Kelly says. The bait and switch of “intent” for euphemism is not so much dishonest as misleading. In the end all of this is just NPR’s refusing to accept the obvious point that it mandates the use of euphemisms even in the face of clear and present dangers to our democracy. In the NPR broadcast, Kelly deceptively used the OED to say that to accuse a liar of lying you need to know that they are intending to deceive. This is a central tactic of Operation Birther, the disinformation campaign of the RIF, aimed at using the mediocracy to broadcast their lies. ![]() NPR News’s white-washing language abets and aids the Republican Insurgent Forces (RIF, also known as RIP), who, for their part, go on smearing anyone who opposes them as “crooked” and liars. There has been much commentary on how the mediocracy contributed to the Trump election coup and this admission confirms that NPR is using a conscious strategy of doublespeak. In a conversation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly and NPR’s senior vice president for news, Michael Oreskes, NPR News makes clear that its policy is not to use the word “lies” when referring to blatant lying by Popular-Vote-Loser Trump and his aides. ![]()
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