{"id":35467,"date":"2019-02-14T00:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T00:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35467"},"modified":"2019-02-14T02:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:16:24","slug":"how-do-you-lie-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35467","title":{"rendered":"How do you lie by accident?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This headline appeared on a National Public Radio story about Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman: “Manafort intentionally lied so special counsel, judge says.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It made me crack open by trusty American Heritage Dictionary. I looked up the word “lie.” It says a lie is “a false statement deliberately presented as true.”<\/p>\n

The key word here is “deliberately.”<\/em> Which begs the question: How does someone lie by accident, or without intending to lie?<\/p>\n

The judge has slammed Manafort hard, saying the president’s former campaign chairman lied to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into “The Russia Thing.”<\/p>\n

Read the NPR story here<\/a><\/p>\n

Manafort lied. He did it on purpose<\/em>. Which is precisely what a lie is defined as being.<\/p>\n

I am wondering now about this notion that somehow it is news that Manafort “intentionally”<\/em> lied to Mueller.<\/p>\n

A false statement presented as true by accident is a “misstatement”; it’s a mistake, a verbal gaffe. Manafort has taken a page from his former boss. He lied<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

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This headline appeared on a National Public Radio story about Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman: “Manafort intentionally lied so special counsel, judge says.” It made me crack open by trusty American Heritage Dictionary. I looked up the word “lie.” It says a lie is “a false statement deliberately presented as true.” The key … Continue reading How do you lie by accident?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6506,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-35467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35474,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions\/35474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}