Therein Lies the Truth?

From the Washington Post:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/02/yes-donald-trump-lies-a-lot-and-news-organizations-should-say-so/?utm_term=.edf39ef3310b

On “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd pressed Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker on whether his paper would call out Trump’s lies for what they are, as other news orgs have been doing with more regularity. Baker’s response is worth quoting in full, because it should go into the time capsule for future generations to ponder in puzzling out what happened in this country at the outset of the 21st century:

I’d be careful about using the word, “lie.” “Lie” implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead. … when Donald Trump says thousands of people were on the rooftops of New Jersey on 9/11 celebrating, thousands of Muslims were there celebrating, I think it’s right to investigate that claim, to report what we found, which is that nobody found any evidence of that whatsoever, and to say that.

Definition of lie

intransitive verb

1:  to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive

2:  to create a false or misleading impression

When is a lie called a lie?

Must one honestly try

To mislead and deceive,

To truly disbelieve

An untruth one cannot deny?

A fib and a lie are the same

Falsehood’s the name of the game

A mendacious tweet

Smells just as sweet

As BS by any other name.