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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
I think his contention is that Ann intentionally distorted the truth (lied using a strict definition) to make her point.
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But I don't understand where this notion of her "lying" is coming from. She stated exactly what the article said and gave note to EXACTLY what it meant! Again, like I said before, if she is going to be accused of anything then it could possibly be her wording, but that does not constitute a lie.
If you are going to accuse anyone of lying shouldn't it be Mr. Franken who deliberately left out pertinent information to make Ann look like a fool!
The Gallup poll routinely tracks BOTH job approval, and personal approval (aka: popularity). She used the numbers for personal approval/popularity, and then made the mistake of not being CLEAR enough about which numbers she was using, because she assumed that the context would make that clear enough. That's not lying, per se.
The context of her paragraph made it abundantly clear which numbers from that poll she was citing. You don't talk about how much people love a guy, then cite his JOB approval numbers from a Gallup poll, you cite his PERSONAL approval numbers (from that SAME Gallup poll).