Prometheus 6

When Candidates Lie

Dear Stumped:

It seems that, from time-to-time, politicians make assertions that are
demonstrably incorrect, yet their statements are treated as legitimate arguments in debate. Why the reticence in the press to employ a descriptor such as "falsehood" or "lie" when one is clearly offered up? I guess I am getting old, but in my youth, assertion did not sit at the same table as logic and deduction in debate.

Grey at the Temples