[Ads-l] Shoulda seen it coming....

[Jonathan Lighter]

> intended meaning

Which is what, in this case?

JL

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The "implausible spin" is frequently made in response to a basic feature
> of "the Resistance," namely, interpreting and reporting every Trumpian
> ambiguity only in light of the worst of all possible meanings, without
> giving honest or fair consideration to the possibility (and in many cases,
> the clear likelihood) that the intended meaning was something less sinister.
>
> The truth generally lies somewhere in the middle.
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> The "rather implausible spin" is a basic feature of the Trump
> Administratio=
> n and, by extension, of contemporary Republicanism.  When the current
> presi=
> dent utters some controversial statement, the question is not "what did he
> =
> mean by that?", but rather "what farfetched explanation can we come up
> with=
>  that will not be believed by any liberals or moderates but will be
> believe=
> d by many of our base and at least saves us enough face that we can move
> on=
>  to the next controversial statement?"
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> Fred Shapiro
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