[Ads-l] to truth-tell

[Chris Waigl]

I think this could be some sort of malapropism. He was angling for
"fact-check", couldn't find it, and because it has something to do with
truth, produced "truth-tell".

Maybe.

Chris



On 6/24/17 3:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> David Carr, NY Times, on _All the President's Men Revisited_ (MSNBC) 2013:
>
> "We can truth-tell them in real time. When they say something, we can be
> Googling what they're saying."
>
> JL
>

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