Trouble With Double Negatives

“One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.”
– David Gergen
Think about that statement for a bit. Gergen says the exact opposite of what he means to say which would have been a false statement that would have been ironically true.
After that, the sentence disappears into a post-modernist vortex.

Posted by on February 4th, 2009 at 2:11 pm


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