[Ads-l] QOTY candidate?

[Jonathan Lighter]

As Al Sharpton observed when confronted with this statement, "Yes and no
are different words, and they mean exactly the opposite too."

JL

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Sep 3, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Taken literally, of course, there's nothing illogical or amusing about
> what
> > she said.
> >
> > Context is all.
> >
> >
>
> Right--normally, voters will tend to infer candidates' positions on issues
> from the words they say (unless there's other evidence to go on, but with a
> non-politician it's a bit difficult to figure out what evidence to invoke).
>
> LH
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson on her candidate (last week on CNN):
> >>
> >> “He hasn’t changed his position on immigration. He’s changed the words
> >> that he is saying.”
> >>
> >> Here's a vine loop of her saying it, and getting laughed at by her
> fellow
> >> panelists:
> >>
> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__
> twitter.com_actualGOP_status_768840728814481408&d=CwIFaQ&c=
> -dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxP
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> 3HI&s=jBDBjy0kdYe5Pt_BNugidrZDSUUDczgn8CdOZdeJKjE&e=
> >>
> >> LH
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
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