Opinion
Media, Not Bush, Nuance-Challenged
In the 1971 Raquel Welch western “Hannie Caulder” there’s a scene in which Ernest Borgnine and Jack Elam tell Strother Martin that he “lied” when he told them there would be no shotgun guard on a stagecoach they were trying to rob. “That wasn’t a lie. That was a mistake,” Martin said to his illiterate brothers, who, not being mainstream media reporters, actually understood the distinction.