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What do you make of Congressman Steve "Shoulda-Been-Mendacious" King's inadvertent candor? (See Details)

Asked by ETpro (34605points) January 7th, 2011

Congressman Steve King was trying to rebuke a fellow member of Congress who he felt had questioned the integrity and honesty of the Republican Leadership in the House and their “Repeal the Job Killing Healthcare Bill”/ (Which has created about 200,000 healthcare and small business jobs already through the tax credit to small business, and repeal of which will ADD $230 billion to the deficit.). Scroll down and watch this video clip. Is it showing us a moment of rare political honesty or just a slip of memory as to the meaning of the word, “mendacity”?

Mendacity: The quality or state of being mendacious.
Mendacious: Given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth <mendacious tales of his adventures>.

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SavoirFaire's avatar

I’m guessing he just used the wrong word. Perhaps he meant tenacity and slipped up?

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MyNewtBoobs's avatar

What did he mean to say?

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ETpro's avatar

@papayalily Good question. I’ve been wracking my brain to find a similar sounding word that nust got substituted. So far, I am drawing a blank.

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Not_the_CIA's avatar

I’m going to just assume that he is a dick.

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MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@ETpro Maybe he doesn’t know what it means?

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ETpro's avatar

@papayalily I would say that is a very safe bet.

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SavoirFaire's avatar

@ETpro @papayalily I think it is quite possible that he doesn’t know what the word means, even though he used it twice, but I will again suggest that he might have meant “tenacity” (at least the second time). I wonder if we’ll get an official clarification in the form of a press release tomorrow?

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ETpro's avatar

@SavoirFaire Quite likely he wasn’t aware of the meaning. But I prefer to believe he does, and got caught in a Freudian slip.

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