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Flip-flop
A "flip-flop"
is a sudden real or apparent change of policy or opinion by a public official,
sometimes while trying to claim that both positions are consistent with each
other. Often it will occur during the period prior to or following an election…
Big Lie
A lie which attempts to trick the victim into believing something
major which will likely be contradicted by some information the victim already
possesses, or by their common sense. When the lie is of sufficient magnitude it
may succeed, due to the victim's reluctance to believe that an untruth on such
a grand scale would indeed be concocted.
Lying
through your teeth
When one lies face-to-face with the intended recipient. This also
may be an expression describing the act of lying with a smile or other
patronizing tone or body language.
Barefaced
lie
A barefaced (or bald-faced) lie is one that is obviously a lie to
those hearing it. A variation that has been in use almost as long is bold-faced lie, referring to a
lie told with a straight and confident face (hence "bold-faced"),
usually with the corresponding tone of voice and emphatic body language of one
confidently speaking the truth.
men·dac·i·ty
n. pl. men·dac·i·ties
1. The condition of being mendacious;
untruthfulness.
2. A lie; a falsehood.
Synonyms: falsehood - lying - falsity - lie -
untruth
Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a
lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a
lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the
white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Excerpts from Gov. Carmencita O. Reyes’ Inaugural Speech,
July 2010:
The
computer ‘lie’.
“Minamahal
kong mga anak, mga kababayan, ikinalulungkot ko na ngayon ay nahaharap tayo sa
isa sa pinakamahirap na panahon sa kasaysayan ng ating lalawigan. Ang ating
naging Gobernador ay nilimas lamang kasama ng kanyang mga kaalyado sa
Sangguniang Panlalawigan na pinangungunahan ng ating Pangalawang Punong Lalawigan , ay isinangla ang ating
lalawigan sa halaga na utang na babayaran natin ng 15 taon...
“Nung
Martes na nakalipas, nilimas pa ang kaban ng ating lalawigan. Ginawa ang P 15-
million para diumano ay ibayad sa mga computer na nagkakahalaga ng P 270,000
bawat isa… sa nakalipas na tatlong taon puro katiwalian ang ginawa nila. Ginahasa ang
lalawigan ng Marinduque. Ngunit sa panahong ito na ngayon, ako’y nagpupugay sa mga kasama nating kawani
ng pamahalaang panlalawigan na sila ay hindi magpapagamit sa katiwalian na
ginawa ng nakalipas na Gobernador…”
Now we know that the Ombudsman, has finally dismissed
that controversial ‘computer case’ (see earlier post), that involved a deliberate lie repeated over and over in speeches, in public hearings and local
media then by the accusers, (some of whom are the original authors of the said
project, don’t forget). Now we have a clear idea how we, the people, are probably being tricked
and fooled.
“A
lie told often enough becomes the truth” –Lenin; “If you repeat a lie often
enough, it becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbel, one of Hitler’s closest associates,
the Reiche Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.
Assertion
of a lie or proof by assertion, sometimes referred to as “proof by repeated
assertion” is a logical fallacy according to Wikipedia, in which such an
assertion is repeatedly stated, regardless of contradiction. Read. This is
sometimes used by politicians as a form of rhetoric and in its extreme form,
can also be a form of brainwashing, Wiki stated.
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