Even if you're demonstrably telling the truth, we still won't offer appropriate punishment.
Despite the problems and demonstrably steep learning curve, Mr. Bloomberg told the favorable Idaho crowd what he tells New Yorkers: that despite his low poll ratings, he is confident of re-election, assuming crime stays down and he can make good on his pledge to improve education.
"If the President says something that cannot be proved or is demonstrably untrue, he devalues his own currency," he told the president.
He also, in a prater of giddy, rehearsed denunciations of Obama, told at least one story that was demonstrably untrue, about Obama supposedly saying that he was one of the four best Presidents ever.
"While transitional housing programs play an important temporary role for people experiencing homelessness, permanent supportive housing has demonstrably better outcomes at a lower cost," HUD spokesman Charles McNally told Politico New York.
"In my personal opinion, this encounter so far makes Pluto demonstrably a planet like many others in the solar system," Bell told HuffPost Live.
All told, the success ratio is high, and even the odd misfire has its heart demonstrably in the right place.
(He had told me earlier, "My instinct is to shoot both ways, and, if one is not demonstrably better, to test both.
"You turn if you want to," she famously told the 1980 Conservative party conference, at a time when her policies were unpopular and, to many observers, demonstrably not working.
This came from someone whose boss has told so many lies it's getting hard to count but the New York Times counted the times he told "demonstrably and substantially false statements" anyway.
