Mr. Bulger's lead lawyer, J. W. Carney Jr., took the unusual tack of immediately acknowledging that his client was guilty of several charges against him, including drug dealing, illegal bookmaking and loansharking, and said he had made "millions upon millions" of dollars through his criminal enterprises.
Even the Drug Czar -- when faced with the actual evidence and data above -- folds his cards immediately, acknowledging that U.S. criminal drug enforcement "has not been successful".
She immediately acknowledged that her concert, part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, didn't fit the strict definition of "American".
But he then immediately acknowledged that there were "some honest differences of opinion in Congress about what form these options should take".
Morrison's initial shock at the diagnosis faded, and after immediately acknowledging that he had lived a promiscuous lifestyle, he started to deny that he was HIV, or that HIV even existed.
Even as Mr. Sharpton condemned the Police Department's handling of no-knock search warrants, he said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly had done the right thing by immediately acknowledging that the officers involved had made a terrible mistake.
Also, repeating a person's name after being introduced immediately acknowledges that you are listening.
Sanders began his speech by immediately acknowledging that he believes in marriage equality and in a woman's right "to control her own body".
Of course, the decisions on the first dozen charges were hardly surprising: During the trial, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer had almost immediately acknowledged that he did it; surveillance videos caught him placing his backpack bomb just before it exploded.
When Dick Cheney calls torture "enhanced interrogation," it doesn't make us understand torture in a different way; it's just a means for those who know they're doing something wrong to find a phrase that doesn't immediately acknowledge the wrongdoing.
