{"id":10793,"date":"2017-08-07T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2017-08-07T19:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:21:04","slug":"a-vivid-accusation-requires-a-solid-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/07\/a-vivid-accusation-requires-a-solid-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vivid Accusation Requires A Solid Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/conway-suggests-lie-detector-tests-may-be-used-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/conway-suggests-lie-detector-tests-may-be-used-white-house&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502230285426000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsFja9AFGdk_OwgIBdc4IGw8IxA\">strains a ligament\u00a0<\/a>reaching for a vivid phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>Conway has earned a reputation for someone who lies routinely and brazenly, and Donald Trump has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/lies-trump-obama-mislead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/lies-trump-obama-mislead.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502230285426000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHZZqV1J2JJ01lNASfJdsqfqxHJ6w\">broken new ground in the area of presidential dishonesty<\/a>, to the point that his truth allergy has led to awkward questions about his tenuous relationship with reality.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of other high-profile members of Team Trump \u2013 Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, et al \u2013 have been caught delivering an embarrassing number of whoppers.<\/p>\n<p>If any group of people on the planet should want to steer clear of even mentioning lie-detector tests, it\u2019s Trump and his senior aides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly for Steve, lie detector tests, by which I believe they mean polygraphs, have a <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/11\/its-appalling-and-yet-i-giggle-a-little\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long history of failing their purpose<\/a>. While it&#8217;s not surprising that the Administration of Ignorance would at least mention them as if they have any utility, it&#8217;s too bad Steve is credulous enough to believe they work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen\u00a0strains a ligament\u00a0reaching for a vivid phrase: Conway has earned a reputation for someone who lies routinely and brazenly, and Donald Trump has\u00a0broken new ground in the area of presidential dishonesty, to the point that his truth allergy has led to awkward questions about his tenuous relationship with reality. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/07\/a-vivid-accusation-requires-a-solid-foundation\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}