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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 02:14 PM Dec 2021

I recently watched a video featuring a staged auto collision. Unsuspecting witnesses [View all]

saw one car slide sideways into a parked vehicle. The actual speed of the sliding car, per radar gun, was 20 mph.

When asked how fast the car was going when it "slammed" into the parked car, the witnesses said "40 to 50 mph" "for sure".

When other witnesses were asked about speed when the car "bumped" the parked vehicle, they answered "15-20 mph."

Word choice matters. Beware of interviewers who try to skew the responses by using emotional trigger terms. Many of them originate with Trumpies and are picked up by lazy and thoughtless "journalists".

It is one thing to say Democrats are "angered" by Senator Mancin's "Sunday surprise". It is quite another to say Democrats are "panicked".


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