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Example sentences for: falsehood
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The Times says Hutchinson made some fresh points out of familiar details, and then the paper clearly states them: 1) In response to the White House claim that any help given to Monica Lewinsky in her job search was not a quid pro quo because the help preceded Lewinsky's role in the Paula Jones case, Hutchinson showed how nonetheless the job search assistance effort became markedly more urgent once she did have such a role; 2) To the White House claim that President Clinton could not have been attempting to sway Betty Currie's testimony because his odd conversation with her took place before she was called as a witness, Hutchinson observed that Clinton had just been questioned at length in the Jones deposition about Currie and hence it was clear to him then that she was likely to be called; 3) To the White House claim that President Clinton's denial of a sexual relationship with Lewinsky was literally true because of the odd definition of such relations he was presented with, Hutchinson points out that Lewinsky's denial predates the appearance of that definition and hence should be considered a common sense falsehood that Clinton encouraged.
But if he misled, then didn't he intend to have his auditors end up believing a falsehood?
Truth, in the fable, would rather be naked than don the clothes of Falsehood, thus the naked Truth . I don't find the story appealing, but it appears in all references on the derivation of the expression.
But all this was reported in the Post and elsewhere, putting the falsehood into wider circulation.
There is more to these episodes than his monochromatic tales of a president willing to take any risk, tell any falsehood, for the sake of political advantage.
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