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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (148745)	12/1/2008 6:11:56 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Nonsense. Link or lie is a challenge used on the internet when you are convinced a poster is lieing and you are challenging him/her to provide evidence to support his/her claim...not because every comment lacking a link is consequently a lie. Although not always, the challenger usually has qualified information that challenges the presumed lie as well and confronts the accused liar with it, at least with reasoned argument to show the claim is most likely false. Then if the poster insists something is true, it may be important to demand substantive proof via links or otherwise. A lie is simply the conduct or utterance used to deceive others, including the conduct of omission. Mistakes are not lies, being uniformed does not make one a liar. Also ,jokes and the illusions of a magician who we presume is playing a clever trick on us is not genuine deceit since at some level we are a willing part of the action. The intent to deceive is an essential aspect of a lie. If you don't know that or refuse to recognize that basic premise, there is no point in discussing it with you. I will, however, continue to object to your corrupt usage of the term if that is your intention. You've not shown jlallen to be a liar, so I believe his challenge still stands. There is more than one way you could respond to that challenge, one of them being to admit your mistake in having accused him wrongfully.