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.