Does anyone know the technical term

[procopia]

for making false implications without actually lying, like Bush does when he connects Iraq to 9-11? I thought I saw someone use that term at DU recently.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Innuendo is one.

[gulliver]

2. Pulling a Bush?

:-)

Seriously, I don't know the answer to your question, but will watch for it from someone who does.

[info being]

3. Misleading?

As in, "we need a leader, not a misleader!"

[Maple]

4. Insinuate

imply....

[MGKrebs]

5. "Deceptive" is one.

I think there may be a more "legal" term. will try to think of it.

[gulliver]

6. Let's coin one.

Insinu-lie?
Prevari-lead?

[Brian Sweat]

7. Spin

Prevarication
Dissembling
Mendacity

[Frodo]

8. "Intent to Deceive"

Or just "Deception".

[Tyler Durden]

9. PREVARICATE

To stray from or evade the truth; equivocate.
(Latin, prae-, before + varicare, to straddle.)

[MrPrax]

14. Prevaricator!!!

If your interested...you can play lie detector analyst from the comfort of your own computer!!!

http://members.tripod.com/JusticeMachines/Prevaricator/freeware.html

[Cocoa]

10. bamboozle

[Maurkov]

11. Dissemble. Equivocate. (nt)

[newyawker99]

13. Hi Maurkov!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Kolesar]

12. Al Gore liked the term "false impressions" in his Moveon.org speech

http://www.moveon.org/gore-speech.html

A glorious excerpt:

In other words, when you put it all together, it was just one mistaken impression after another. Lots of them.

And it's not just in foreign policy. The same thing has been happening in economic policy, where we've also got another huge and threatening mess on our hands. I'm convinced that one reason we've had so many nasty surprises in our economy is that the country somehow got lots of false impressions about what we could expect from the big tax cuts that were enacted, including:

(1) The tax cuts would unleash a lot of new investment that would create lots of new jobs.

(2) We wouldn't have to worry about a return to big budget deficits -- because all the new growth in the economy caused by the tax cuts would lead to a lot of new revenue.

(3) Most of the benefits would go to average middle-income families, not to the wealthy, as some partisans claimed.

Unfortunately, here too, every single one of these impressions turned out to be wrong. Instead of creating jobs, for example, we are losing millions of jobs -- net losses for three years in a row. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression. As I've noted before, I was the first one laid off.

[Paschall]

15. Con? Fraud? Swindle? Obnubilate? Or...

...in the GOP lexicon "campaign." :evilgrin:

[morningglory]

16. Someone compared the new Iraq-is-going-well approach to

BaghdadBob's pronouncements. He is the information minister who said the stupid Americans were running away.

[Spazito]

17. Here are some good terms to describe what Bush is doing,

on top of the lies he has told.

One entry found for deceitful.


Entry Word: deceitful
Function: adjective
Text: Synonyms DISHONEST 1, knavish, lying, mendacious, roguish, shifty, unhonest, untruthful
Related Word artful, crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, insidious, sly, tricky, wily; clandestine, furtive, stealthy, underhand, underhanded; deceptive, delusive, delusory, misleading
Contrasted Words assuring, convincing, reassuring
Antonyms trustworthy