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The site is http://www.outfoxed.org/ and the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw
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This is an old tactic. "Some people say..." Who said that? You? Not you? Somebody else? No one ever said that?
They made a whole movie about this back in 2003, 2004 (2002?) it was called Outfoxed.
Wikipedia calls them weasel words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tergiversate
To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate.
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The site is http://www.outfoxed.org/ and the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw
thank you
This is an old tactic. "Some people say..." Who said that? You? Not you? Somebody else? No one ever said that?
They made a whole movie about this back in 2003, 2004 (2002?) it was called Outfoxed.
Wikipedia calls them weasel words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Learn something new every day
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tergiversate
To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate.