Meaning Matters More

The Media elite claim "words matter".  My lawyer says that the other side's closing is "just words it is not evidence."  My thinking about that is that the Court's orders are "just words" also.

The Candy Crowley/CNN fact check debate issue is Crowley’s decision to do a bit of on-the-spot fact-checking of Mitt Romney’s contention that President Obama didn’t acknowledge an “act of terror” in Benghazi, Libya, until 14 days after the Sept. 11 attack.

I reviewed the Washington Post article a Google search presented.

I agree with the Twitter comment included at the end of the article:

To say that President Obama called the Libya Attack an act of terrorism on September 12th on the basis of the transcript is like saying that the Gettysburg Address is about baseball because it contains the word score.

My reading of the transcript is that Obama did not call the Benghazi incident an “act of terrorism” in his Rose Garden speech on September 12.  It would have been improper for him to have done this so soon.  Candy Crowley should have known that.  “Terror” does occur in the transcript.  Words matter.  Meaning matters more.  “Terrorism” does not occur.

Words matter but meaning matters more.

But we can never say that

“But we can never say that” was attributed to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in an issue of the Wilson Quarterly,  a journal I subscribed to about 1990.  The issue containing Black’s comment was about 2000 or 2001.

Black’s comment was supposed to be about the Law School hypothetical – would you torture someone to prevent 5 million people being killed by a nuclear device?  He said, “Of course we would but we can never say that.”

Recently, a lot of children were migrating to the US.  Hillary Rodham Clinton, being aware of the “we can never say that” guidance said that all the children have to be sent back.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-child-migrants_us_55d4a5c5e4b055a6dab24c2f

We can never say that lawbreakers will be given amnesty.  Otherwise, we are flooded with illegal immigrants.

Donald J. Trump knows that "amnesty" is a bad thing for our country.  Hillary used to know that we have to say that even unaccompanied children must be sent back.

We may torture or we may grant amnesty but WE CAN NEVER SAY THAT.