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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore, those around him say, the setbacks stiffened his resolve even more than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...
...wouldn't have thought it possible early this year that spin could play an even larger role in American life than it already did. Straight-talking politicians (John McCain) were all the rage, and trendoids assured us that in the larger culture as well, sincerity was in while irony was out. But 2000 turned out to be a milestone year for the Great American Spin Machine. It was no surprise that spin was more copious than ever during the election campaign; it is more copious than ever in every election campaign. What made 2000 a special year for spin...
Spin is sometimes dismissed as a simple euphemism for lying. But it's actually something more insidious: indifference to the truth. Spinning means describing a reality that suits your purposes. Whether it resembles the reality we all share is an issue that doesn't even arise...
...forthcoming business meeting? Unlike a more traditional advertising claim--that, say, an angel flies out of a can of cleanser to banish grime with her magic wand--this hotel's claim is not inherently or obviously metaphorical. Yet it's clearly not true--a point that probably didn't even occur to the producers of the ad or 99% of its viewers. The deception is not on purpose; few are deceived. But the process of producing a spin for this hotel chain apparently did not include reality as even a minor consideration...
Those who have been listening for even a year knew that this was characteristic Boies. During the long Microsoft epic, months before he won the devastating verdict against the company last April, they had heard him discuss the company's monopoly. "This is not about creative legal arguments," he said at one point. "It's not about creative economic arguments. It is about common sense. It is about facts, and it is about what the real world demonstrates." No matter how well you know Boies, these words, the phrasing, the syntax, give no clue to the setting where...