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Woolwich when he said muslim troops are dying. if this anti-west victimhood narrative as if muslims are the only victims in the world and the only ones dying and the only one killing is non-muslims. thats a half truth. the problem with this narrative is its not based on lies. its easy to uncover a lie, but its based on half-truths. they only uncover half of the story so this young and angry teenager doesnt realize that in fact theres a complete picture there that theyre missing. for example, mor...

Involved with the campaign to fix the debt and i think that there is also a half-truth out there that democrats somehow dont realize that down the road, we acknowledge something needs to happen vis-a-vis the social safety net, whether turning it into a voucher program or block grant to the states, is another matter. theres not a lack of recognition about the path that we are on. the timeline and the heens to the end are i think what is at the heart of the debate. >> i think we do have in our par...

Another set of authority, and this -- this is where you get down to brass tacks and say, were going to have fact checkers. the thing is fact checkers have been wrong. i have been fact checked by politico and they were wrong. rachel has had a bad experience with politifact. heres her talking about politifact. >> the president says thing a and thing b. politifact looks into it and decides thing a and thing b stated by the president are both true so on their truthometer, they rate their truth to ha...

>> more details should have been included in that probable cause affidavit. what he is saying is she committed perjury. he says she only gave a portion of the evidence thats a half-truth, a half-truth is not a full truth so its a lie. and if you lie, its perjury. >> if you speak to allen dershowitz he gives a case law that says a partial truth is a lie. hes not doing this off the top of his head. megyn: you are not messing with just anybody. >> its his testimony this law that says law enforcemen...

Allege racism in legal filings unless theres some evidence to indicate that? >> no, and certainly when youre filing an affidavit. it has to be based on the truth, the whole truth and nothing, but the truth. if you deliberate submit a half truth, thats a lie. >> and this affidavit and the submissions by the prosecutor constituted a half truth thats a lie and she ought to be investigated by what shes done. shes done something much worse. she sees her job, essentially, to prevent riots. she said es...

I think thats a real policemen for him going forward. the press doesnt like mitt romney in general. to the extent the press thinks hes a liar thats going to be a big problem. theres nothing the press likes more than taking down someone, catch him out in a half-truth or full untruth. >> thank you very much for joining me tonight. coming up, rick santorum is courting a voting bloc that does not exist, the anti-college voter. even chris christie is siding with president obama on this one. los ang...

Hes a liar thats going to be a big problem. theres nothing the press likes more than taking down someone, catch him out in a half-truth or full untruth. >> thank you very much for joining me tonight. coming up, rick santorum is courting a voting bloc that does not exist, the anti-college voter. even chris christie is siding with president obama on this one. los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa joins me next. because one mistake is never enough in the santorum campaign, rick santorum has de...

They are not going to vote for either in the end i dont think. >> alex, would america come to an enif one of these guys says, praumt said that americanss are lazy and if the moderator stopped the candidate and said, sir, that is a lie? >> look, lawrence, i think there are a couple of republicans on the stage, jon huntsman is one, he is tried to put truth and fact out there and slapped to the bottom of the polls. >> no reward. >> whats there to win? half truth and falsehoods are sevened this fiel...

The first million dollars. so its unbelievable that people dont want to support that as a way to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in this country. its absolutely unbelievable to me. >> and the fact that payroll taxes versus corporate taxes , look at that chart, the amount has gone up 25%. the amount of corporate income tax that they contribute to the corporate has gone down 15%. >> and even people that arent paying federal income tax arent paying it because theyre living at subsistence level...

Year. theres long been an afiction that theres a social security trust fund is laughable and harry reid knows it. people who are putting money into social security right now are paying for -- mike barnicle -- are paying for their kids. >> mike, how does harry reid say that when he knows that the so-called social security trust fund has been raided for many, many years? he knows that what he said is not true. >> joe, these people, again, on both sides of the aisle, manufacture them, many of them,...