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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (67924)	10/29/2008 2:40:53 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

they where at least conspirators in a murderous plot, and talking about people dieing because of their plots, isn't exactly taking liberties with the truth. Mmm. A semantic point. If you say "These terrorists killed three people" I'd say there's a really strong implication that they killed three OTHER people, not themselves. It's certainly a very misleading way of phrasing it if that's not what you intended to imply, even if it's strictly speaking true. If the subject and object of an active verb are the same then it's odd not to indicate that in the sentence, especially in the context of people killing people. Hence why the site flagged that statement from Clinton - it didn't call it untrue, it said it "strained the facts " which I would call a very fair judgement.