Two generations ago, when Prime Minister Winston Chruchill was still a member of the Liberal Party he rose in Commons to defend his party against the charge they had deliberately misrepresented the Conservative Party. The Liberals had accused the Conservatives of practiciing slavery in South Africa because they kept black laborers behind barbed-wire compounds under severe restrictions.
Churchill famously remarked: "I admit the term 'slavery' might be a terminological inexactitude."
At this Joseph Chamberlain, the father of the late Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, interrupted: "I prefer the ugly little English three letter word - L-I-E."
Which brings me to today's POTUS: a one Donald J. Trump. Since the network media outlets are so reticent to attribute nearly every utterance of the current White House occupant a lie, perhaps they would be better served to affix Winston Churchill's famous description of a falsehood to Mr. Trump's every verbal pronouncment a "terminological inexactitude." The ghost of Churchill would almost be imagined as grinning and nodding in agreement.
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