SOME TRUE THINGS BECOME FALSE WHEN TRUMP SAYS THEY ARE TRUE

This is The Pundit Gaffe Fallacy

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

SOME THINGS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP SAYS THEM

We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue! DT

Thursday, April 26, 2018

RE DK CURRENT POST LEONHARDT KINSLEY GAFFE PUNDIT GAFFE

"It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, is when a politician tells the truth — or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down." Kinsley Gaffe.

The Boomerbuster Butt is related to the Pundit Confession. Both are hard to ever recover from. Leonhardt has already committed the Pundit Confession, as I have pointed out here. 

Brooks, for example, a sort of greased pig at the county fair, never committed so elementary a blunder, as far as I know, but then I read him only intermittently.

By far the most common American politician faux pas is simply to make an utterly untrue statement, but one made not out of indifference to the truth at all, as described in the Kinsley Gaffe, but rather an even more elementary failing, a statement made not knowing what the truth would be if it bit the politician in the butt... 

The politician, himself, not merely his statement, then becomes a Boomerbuster Butt. It is worse than a Kinsley Gaffe, from which the politician himself perhaps, with therapy, can recover.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

KRUGMAN TRUMPIFYING THE FED SOME ARGUMENTS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP MAKES THEM

Krugman is being caught in a prior Thomas L Friedman Trump gaffe:  

Some things are true even if Trump says them, a false argument (All economists' arguments are false in one or more ways, to some extent or another, or in general.)

Trump is the worst possible person to be making this argument, but that doesn't mean that the argument is wrong. PK