"In two hours this film racks up more falsehoods, errors, embellished tales and blatant omissions than were committed by Rolling Stone, Brian Williams and Bill O'Reilly combined.
In fact, it is an invariable source of falsehood and error.
In 1807, then-President Jefferson, with much more experience under his belt, wrote, "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors".
Conway's persistent, strategic, and systemic use of propaganda and disinformation nothing like the occasional falsehoods or errors of speech we've seen in prior administrations is a major driver of this moral crisis, not simply a distant adjunct to it that we should be interrogating afresh on television each day.
In "Error and Falsehood" his pen sputters and makes snaking, abstract loops that wouldn't look out of place in a Brice Marden painting.
Łukasiewicz, for one, sought to show that LNC does not have the primacy it receives in the Metaphysics; its value, he submits, is not "logical" but "ethical", serving as "a weapon against error and falsehood", and in particular as a useful tool for a defendant seeking to establish his innocence in a criminal proceeding (Łukasiewicz 1910/1971: 508).
In denouncing the author, Bush yells, "Liar, liar -- pants on fire," but he neglects to cite one falsehood, one misrepresentation or one factual error.
Yesterday, Slate ran an irate response from Bernstein, who writes that Hari's review "was so willfully uncomprehending, so brim-full of moralistic error and ad hominem falsehood, that it's too hard not to reply".
And the corporate explanation of an "inadvertent error" is just making the falsehood look like it runs that much deeper at the company.
By John Cassidy December 12 , 2017Donald Trump will likely never acknowledge his own falsehoods — yet, whenever the media make an error in a story about him, the President is all over it.
