I disagree that it's direct. At some point, common sense has to prevail. You can waste time calling every school in those states to see if they are in fact seizing schoolchildren and changing their sexes, or you can look at Trump's epic and well-documented history of lies and say, "He's lying." >

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I think you lose when you start muting or underplaying the truth because you think it might upset some readers. If you're wrestling with whether your highest obligation is to accurate language or to readers who don't want to encounter accurate language. to me the choice is clear.

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I do think it's a fair question to ask what the effect might have been if major media including the NYT had used the word lie from the very beginning and treated the lies as major events. You can say, "Oh, we'd all be numb." But are we any less numb because euphemisms were deployed?

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I'm almost sure it's not going to be Newsom. I just hope you don't find yourself in the same situation with whoever makes it in '28.

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Any time I see this clip pop up, I am forced to watch the entire clip. It is remarkable.

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