Sentences with phrase «to fool the public»

I believe that you are lying when you say that, and that your statement is just intended to fool the public into thinking you DO N'T agree with the president.

Every president has fallen prey to this insidious practice of fooling the public by using the words they want to hear.

Brooklyn reformer Gary Tilzer suggests the elaborate show is actually designed to fool the public about who'll truly pick and control the next speaker.

Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin says in a press release accompanying the launch: «Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have tried to fool the public using scare stories from cronies or subordinates.

It was not designed to improve animal welfare, but to create technical offences to get at a certain type of person, while all along fooling the public that some good would be done.

UnionWatch's Ed Ring has given us a primer in Deceptive and Misleading Claims — How Government Unions Fool the Public.

By fooling the public into believing that stopping greenhouse gases will stop global warming (often referred to as the same thing) we are setting everyone up for a disappointment.

And so, over the decade, alarmist climate scientists tried to fool the public by stonewalling («it's the warmest decade on record,» which doesn't mean the decade was warming), denying the facts («the allegation that annual global mean temperatures stopped increasing during the past decade has no basis in reality»), or outright lying («the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought»).

It is a bittersweet fudge designed to fool the public into believing there will be worthwhile reform of the EU when the evidence of the EU's Five Presidents» Report demonstrates that it will only get more centralized, more expensive and more regulated.

«This tax plan is just the latest example; it's shaping up to be a wasteful giveaway to the rich at the expense of everyone else, and no amount of White House spin will fool the public.»

It is a bittersweet fudge designed to fool the public into believing there will be worthwhile reform of the EU when the evidence of the EU's Five Presidents» Report demonstrates that it will only get more centralised, more expensive and more regulated.

The Brewers Association («A Passionate Voice for Craft Brewers») has grown especially sick of Big Beer creeping in on its territory, and is accusing the big guys of intentionally trying to fool the public.

What's so infuriating about the fiscal cliff is that it's entirely man - made, by legislators trying to fool the public and themselves.

for those that are truely interested in learning how islamphobes are fooling the public into hate (The Norwegian mass murder terrorist was a faithful follower of islamphobic sites), go to loonwatch

Since the shooting, people on social media have been quick to share stories suggesting that there were multiple shooters, that the shooter had ties to terrorist groups, that authorities are purposely hiding information to manipulate the narrative for political purposes or, even absurdly, that this shooting was some sort of «false flag» operation orchestrated by shadow groups to fool the public.

Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has responded to claims from Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger that the Potters «deliberately injured» his players during Saturday's Premier League clash by ridiculing the Frenchman for hypocrisy and trying to fool the public.

Dean Skelos can make quips like «we are negotiating» and «we have differences» to fool the public, but then not get to an agreement and the new lines will have been drawn by the courts.

quit throwing false statements around to fool the public into thinking the railroad is not complying with the terms of the rent agreement

Now, how in the world Cuomo can characterize, as a deep dark secret intended to fool the public, a rate setting methodology that exists in law and is the subject of public meetings and countless reports on the DOH website is a mystery to me — unless we assume that Cuomo is a weasel.

The budget story Cuomo tells — about how the insiders have been fooling the public, and how he's going to put a stop to it — is skillfully crafted, entertainingly performed, and irresistibly compelling.

The feeble, watered down Standards Bill is another smokescreen which has failed to fool the public; they are rightfully scornful at Mr Brown's claim to have «cleaned up» politics with empty legislation described by Mr Clegg as a «baby step» towards sorting out Westminster's rotten politics.

The rest of the communiqué is riddled with euphemisms that the union hopes will fool the public.

All these companies have fooled the public into believing they have developed new cars, whereas we now know that all cars from the manufacturers quoted above are based on an old Chrysler chassis.

It has been oversold, however, because it has become a «new» way for trainers to charge for their services and fool the public.

And while we may have fooled some people along the way, there will be no fooling the public when they get their hands on it.

The goal won't be to fool the public into believing the falsified blogs; once the backlash from these fake blogs (flogs?)

Why must they create fictional animated sequences to fool the public?

But, if a carbon tax would be simpler and easier, and if the only unique «advantages» of cap - and - trade are that it would allow traders to make money and it would fool the public into thinking that it has nothing to do with prices, then a carbon tax would be the better choice, right?

All these specious claims for wind energy are simply part of a long line of snake oil sales spiels — intended to fool the public, and to enable politicians to justify favoring special interests by enriching various rent - seekers (which will then return the favor via campaign contributions and other reelection support).

What interests me is the current discussion feels like politicians slamming each other rather than scientists analyzing a problem («this is all a hoax» — because scientists love secret meetings to fool the public; or «you're a denialist» — because Holocaust imagery is always in good taste).

Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper's executive director, dismissed the company's change of tack as a move to «try to fool the public and piecemeal this project.

It is apparently now «headline news» that the man who will be in charge of all of our public lands, which are being devastated by human - caused climate change — some of which was caused by fossil fuels extracted from those lands — doesn't believe there is a massive conspiracy carried out by the entire global scientific community and literally every single major government in the world, including our own, to fool the public and media.

This is how they fool the public.

Similarly, the reason most environmental groups lobbied for cap - and - trade rather than a carbon tax was simply to fool the public.

They should have launched it on 1st April to fool public by giving 2016 specs and price of 2017 in the year 2018..

Those in my office felt she was fooling the public by offering something she didn't have.