But no other party has seized that banner.There are votes available for any party which can claim convincingly to have cleaned itself up, Mr Lopes thinks.
The Times published an interview last week with Hayder Sabbar Abd, who claimed, convincingly, to be one of the mistreated Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib photographs.
This was one of the first times that the Sunnis had been able to claim convincingly that they were the victims, and by doing so they had gained a new legitimacy.
The authors argue that weaker players have a bigger impact on a team's points tally than stronger ones, and claim convincingly that success in a single match is as much about luck as skill.
Flower claimed, convincingly, that Collingwood had always been the favoured choice and that there had definitely been no veto of Pietersen, even though senior ECB officials – the chief executive, David Collier, Giles Clarke, chairman, and the manager of England cricket, Hugh Morris – were all present in Dubai and Morris, as well as Cook and the selectors, were consulted.
Turkish officials claim (not convincingly) that most of the journalists they have detained are not real journalists at all but terrorists in disguise.
(He even claims, semi-convincingly, not to know what people meant when they called the sitcom "meta": "I've looked it up a number of times.
Mr. Rajoy wanted the rules changed, or at least bent, so the money went directly to the banks and Spain could claim more convincingly it had not received a bailout.
(Stockhausen claimed, not convincingly, to have been misquoted, but there is no dispute that he likened the murder of thousands of civilians by theocratic fanatics to an intense aesthetic experience).
The IPCC also claim, more convincingly, that mobile phone footage of the aftermath shot from a flat opposite, does not appear to show a gun being planted.
