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You’re trying to figure out what the individual’s motive is, you’re not necessarily going to report on the motive. But you want to understand why they would leak this information and if they have motive to distort the information. – Kelly McBride	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I mean, look, he's calling Ukrainians neo-Nazis and drug dealers, and all this propaganda stuff we all know isn’t true. And I think deep down, a mass of his population, they know it's not true, it highlights for us, here in America, why Ukraine is on the front line … They are the geopolitical fault line right now between democracy and authoritarianism and a hallmark of authoritarianism is to control the narrative, control what people hear and see and then distort the truth. – Daniel Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even traumatic experiences can be subjected to post-event suggestion that can exaggerate, distort or change the memory. – Elizabeth Loftus	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those claims are false, and they distort the very goal of our work, the truth is that The Salvation Army believes that racism is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity, and we are called to work toward a world where all people are loved, accepted, and valued. Our positional statement on racism makes this clear. – Salvation Army EMS	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Any attempt to overturn or distort the conclusions of the joint study report is political manipulation and disrespect for global scientists and science, the label of' refusing origin tracing' can never be pinned on China. Instead, it is very appropriate for the United States itself. – Ma Zhaoxu	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The EU is amongst the most open economies in the world, attracting high levels of investment from our trading partners. However, our openness is increasingly being challenged through foreign trade practices, including subsidies that distort the level playing field for companies in The EU. – The EU	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Wakulla County commissioners in Florida Founding Fathers drafted The Second Amendment so clearly and succinctly that no interpretation is required. Yet, attempts to distort The Second Amendment, or eliminate The Second Amendment, persist. – Josh Blake	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My political opponents have taken 51 seconds out of a 16-minute speech to try to distort my message and mislead voters. We recognize the tactic. I'm not interested in taking the fake news bait. – David Stringer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When evangelicals tune into Fox News they know that their beliefs will be represented in a fair and balanced way for consideration, until Fox News came along, Christians could only expect the mainstream media to distort and ridicule their beliefs. Robert Jeffress is also a Fox News contributor( and a fellow Southern Baptist). – Robert Jeffress	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Notwithstanding all Mr. Estrada's hard work and unanimous highly qualified rating by the American Bar Association, he has been subjected to a piñata confirmation process with which he we have all become familiar, the extreme left wing Washington groups to after judicial nominees like kids after a piñata. It is not specific to Mr. Estrada. They beat it and they beat it and they hope something comes out that they can crew and distort. – Orrin Hatch	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The vote may not have been completely transparent and its legitimacy is hampered by the boycott. But the overall result doesn't necessarily completely distort the voting pattern that we have seen in Congo. – Christoph Wille	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The latest tape has at least 20 substantial and unexplained edits. Previous tapes released by this extremist group were heavily edited in order to distort what the people on the tapes actually said, these videos are intended to shock and deceive the public. For example, one video was edited to make it look like a doctor said she would. – Dawn Laguens	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He'd had one of his frequent epilepsy crises that made him convulse, distort, fall and drool. However, something came up with this one, something unusual. My brother was not reacting to our calls and our light slaps, time had stopped. – Tess Dumon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It wasn't until a week after my announcement that people started to totally distort these very easy to understand words. If there was something stated incorrectly, it would have been brought up immediately and with great enthusiasm. – Trump Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It took an extra 20 years to do away with child labor, that's 20 years of children coughing their lungs out in textile mills or dragging wagons of coals underground instead of going to school because the court chose to distort the Constitution that way. – Garrett Epps	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Highly subsided nuclear power from this plant will noticeably distort European competitiveness. – Soenke Tangermann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Monthly data is problematic to look at for broader structural trends because stocks tend to distort the data. – Michal Meidan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse – Jason Culverhouse	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.) – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. – John Henry Cardinal Newman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. – Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. – Fyodor Dostoevsky	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago

You’re trying to figure out what the individual’s motive is, you’re not necessarily going to report on the motive. But you want to understand why they would leak this information and if they have motive to distort the information.

– Kelly McBride

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I mean, look, he's calling Ukrainians neo-Nazis and drug dealers, and all this propaganda stuff we all know isn’t true. And I think deep down, a mass of his population, they know it's not true, it highlights for us, here in America, why Ukraine is on the front line … They are the geopolitical fault line right now between democracy and authoritarianism and a hallmark of authoritarianism is to control the narrative, control what people hear and see and then distort the truth.

– Daniel Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even traumatic experiences can be subjected to post-event suggestion that can exaggerate, distort or change the memory.

– Elizabeth Loftus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those claims are false, and they distort the very goal of our work, the truth is that The Salvation Army believes that racism is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity, and we are called to work toward a world where all people are loved, accepted, and valued. Our positional statement on racism makes this clear.

– Salvation Army EMS

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any attempt to overturn or distort the conclusions of the joint study report is political manipulation and disrespect for global scientists and science, the label of' refusing origin tracing' can never be pinned on China. Instead, it is very appropriate for the United States itself.

– Ma Zhaoxu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The EU is amongst the most open economies in the world, attracting high levels of investment from our trading partners. However, our openness is increasingly being challenged through foreign trade practices, including subsidies that distort the level playing field for companies in The EU.

– The EU

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Wakulla County commissioners in Florida Founding Fathers drafted The Second Amendment so clearly and succinctly that no interpretation is required. Yet, attempts to distort The Second Amendment, or eliminate The Second Amendment, persist.

– Josh Blake

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My political opponents have taken 51 seconds out of a 16-minute speech to try to distort my message and mislead voters. We recognize the tactic. I'm not interested in taking the fake news bait.

– David Stringer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When evangelicals tune into Fox News they know that their beliefs will be represented in a fair and balanced way for consideration, until Fox News came along, Christians could only expect the mainstream media to distort and ridicule their beliefs. Robert Jeffress is also a Fox News contributor( and a fellow Southern Baptist).

– Robert Jeffress

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Notwithstanding all Mr. Estrada's hard work and unanimous highly qualified rating by the American Bar Association, he has been subjected to a piñata confirmation process with which he we have all become familiar, the extreme left wing Washington groups to after judicial nominees like kids after a piñata. It is not specific to Mr. Estrada. They beat it and they beat it and they hope something comes out that they can crew and distort.

– Orrin Hatch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The vote may not have been completely transparent and its legitimacy is hampered by the boycott. But the overall result doesn't necessarily completely distort the voting pattern that we have seen in Congo.

– Christoph Wille

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The latest tape has at least 20 substantial and unexplained edits. Previous tapes released by this extremist group were heavily edited in order to distort what the people on the tapes actually said, these videos are intended to shock and deceive the public. For example, one video was edited to make it look like a doctor said she would.

– Dawn Laguens

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He'd had one of his frequent epilepsy crises that made him convulse, distort, fall and drool. However, something came up with this one, something unusual. My brother was not reacting to our calls and our light slaps, time had stopped.

– Tess Dumon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It wasn't until a week after my announcement that people started to totally distort these very easy to understand words. If there was something stated incorrectly, it would have been brought up immediately and with great enthusiasm.

– Trump Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It took an extra 20 years to do away with child labor, that's 20 years of children coughing their lungs out in textile mills or dragging wagons of coals underground instead of going to school because the court chose to distort the Constitution that way.

– Garrett Epps

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Highly subsided nuclear power from this plant will noticeably distort European competitiveness.

– Soenke Tangermann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Monthly data is problematic to look at for broader structural trends because stocks tend to distort the data.

– Michal Meidan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

– Jason Culverhouse

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

– Mark Twain