The film is "a remarkable litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations and exaggerations and omissions, " Posner says.
Attack ads are where you tend to see more misleading statements, if not, outright falsehoods.
Just a few simple questions in the Te'o story could have sniffed out the falsehoods.
Mr Crompton apologised for any offence caused but has not specified what falsehoods he was referring to.
Rusty Hardin, Mr. Clemens's lawyer, homed in on what he said were falsehoods in Mr. McNamee's account.
"The defendant was untruthful with many falsehoods and lies, " Justice Department prosecutor Alan Gershel said in his closing argument.
It would be nice if T-shirt fact checkers eventually moved on to the blatant falsehoods printed on bumper stickers.
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But this information climate also provides lots of room for rumors and falsehoods.
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If we withhold or obscure the truth, we get self-protective falsehoods in return.
But his readers are entitled to an honest presentation of the facts, not a series of falsehoods buttressed by material omissions.
The report issued Thursday notes the "accusations of inaccuracies and falsehoods in the narratives" of his books "were not the subject" of the investigation.
But many of his followers, who include members of the New York blogging community, started retweeting the fake stuff, allowing the falsehoods to spread.
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But their opponents have every incentive to counter distortions and falsehoods.
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Such an approach would, however, talk truth to the American people and save our nation the embarrassment of walking back harsh words and falsehoods once the campaign is over.
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These falsehoods have had a significant and negative impact on our business activity and, as such, they must be addressed as part of our effort to correct the record.
The study, carried out in the US and China, examined the use of "instrumental lying" and found that such tactically deployed falsehoods were used by an overwhelming majority of parents.
"He just sat in Madrid, listened to well-known detractors of Rwanda and based on their falsehoods, which he never tried to cross-check, just went ahead and issued indictments, " a statement says.
Are blessed by deeds not falsehoods and lies.
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Daisey has made three appearances on Up With Chris Hayes over the last few months, in some cases repeating the falsehoods from his live show, though not as extensively as he did on This American Life.
As such, the Respondents may have taken the position that Medical Capital perpetrated a fraud on the market as a whole, and that the brokerage firm and its registered person were similarly duped by the falsehoods and misrepresentations.
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One of the great falsehoods deployed by the conservatives, nearly all of them men, is that the Koran, the word of God as imparted to Muhammad more than 13 centuries ago, decrees that women should remain in second place.
Each time Rep. Michele Bachmann insinuates falsehoods into her arguments, as she did earlier this month on the "Today Show" by suggesting HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, I think: A group of people on auto-pilot in Minnesota did this to us.
Johnson also offered to fall on his sword so that other lawyers could continue with the valuable work of getting to the bottom of the falsehoods and misstatements that led to such heavy losses for investors who are, as of today, down about 13% on Facebook stock.
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