But you are effectively accusing him of lying, without evidence. Even if someone is unable to fulfil a promise, that is not proof of intentional falsehood. At best, it is only proof that conditions he believed would be true did not materialize as expected. You may credit that to a problem with judgment, or something worse, but you can’t know for certain without some direct evidence that he claimed something was true that he knew at the time to be false.
I take defamatory statements very seriously. I have been subjected to some awful assumptions that were completely false, but they damaged me anyway because a lie travels round the world before the truth gets out the door. Or something like that. Bearing false witness against someone is a violation of God’s law, and it should not be done, least of all by those who claim the mantle of conservatism.
Even if someone is unable to fulfil a promise, that is not proof of intentional falsehood.
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OK. You are right about that. But what does a person with integrity, upon discovering they cannot back up their claim, do? Comes right out and says, hey I am unable to live up to my statements.
Beck did not do this.
He seems to be pretending that he never made the claim in the first place. That tells me something.
Get off your high horse! Beck has done this same thing repeatedly and I don’t care if you like me calling him out on it or not.