Pierce: The New York Times May Finally Be Running Out of Euphemisms for 'Lie'
The New York Times May Finally Be Running Out of Euphemisms for 'Lie'
The Paper of Record does not cover itself in glory calling Trump's baby execution line "an inaccurate refrain."
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
APR 29, 2019
On Saturday, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago had another one of his irregularly scheduled public episodes in front of people in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He bragged about his magnificent economic achievements to an audience in America's Dairyland, despite the fact that Wisconsin's dairy farms have begun to blow away in a strong breeze. Everybody cheered because MAGA. Also, according to an authoritative count by the Washington Post, he treated the assembled burghers to the 10,000th lie of his presidency*. He also went on another one of his familiar riffs about the tragic events surrounding the births of fatally disabled children....
This unmitigated bullshit is going to get someone killed, the anti-choice movement having already piled up an impressive body count. But what I did not expect was that The New York Times would take this opportunity to assault the English language with the intent to do grave bodily harm. To wit:
An "inaccurate refrain"?
Are these people serious?
The only possible ray of hope in that paragraph is that "inaccurate refrain" is such a clumsy phrase that they may finally be running out of euphemisms for "arrant lying." Maybe they'll soon have no choice but to call a lie a lie. Here is a moving Twitter thread that describes what actually happens in these horrible situations. The president*'s bloodthirsty mendacity reminds me of the lies and slander aimed at the hospice workers while they were tending to Terri Schiavo. The hospice got regular bomb threats and so did the elementary school up the road.
But, seriously, NYT? An "inaccurate refrain"? I feel sick. Good thing, as John Fogerty warned us, there's a bathroom on the right.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27309392/donald-trump-baby-execute-new-york-times-inaccurate-refrain/
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He doesn't tell "untruths" or any other less offensive, less ugly, less jarring descriptor.
He LIES. He is a LIAR.
Dump lies like a fuckin' rug and his pants are on 4 alarm fire.
"Inaccurate refrain?"
The other one that bugs me is sexual assault instead of rape. Yes, rape is an ugly, jarring word. The violence of rape is far, far uglier, so idgaf about some hypothetical person's delicate sensibilities that might be shocked and offended by hearing the word 'rape' on a news report. Journalists and reporters need to get real and tell it like it is.
Rant over.
so I can't say it's a lie, because that's a deliberate thing," it makes me want to 
