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Double Plus Untrue
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters today: “We’re still doing an investigation. What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by the extremists to see if they could directly harm U.S. interests.” This is almost an exact inversion of the truth. What Carney meant was:
“We’re still doing an investigation. What we do know is that in our natural dishonesty we used the video as an excuse to avoid facing the fact that this was an attack by extremists, since we wanted neither to prevent the attack nor to punish those responsible for it.” Email entry |