But muddying the waters is a common tactic of abusers.
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Other tweets and accounts began to disappear, muddying the waters further.
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What's more, if anyone was muddying the waters, it was me.
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CAVUTO TO TRUMP: HOW CAN YOU DRAIN THE SWAMP IF YOU KEEP MUDDYING THE WATERS?
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How can you drain the swamp if you're the one that keeps muddying the waters?
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These groups happily endorse fraudulent elections, muddying the waters to undermine the efforts of more reputable bodies.
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Here, he's merely muddying the waters, albeit in what might be the most immoral and disgusting way possible.
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But this risks muddying the waters around who in the chain is responsible for abuses of such technology.
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And Disney is launching a Hulu / Netflix rival of its own in 2019, muddying the waters even further.
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Domestic political tension and external frictions with Qatar risk delaying the IPO until 2019—and further muddying the waters.
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Also muddying the waters, Britons will vote on June 23 on whether to tear up their EU membership card.
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Every so often, an element of additional (and, once or twice, unwelcome) interpretation peeks in, further muddying the waters.
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For the rest, it'll be a well-oiled propaganda machine capable of muddying the waters of even straightforward news. 10.
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Muddying the waters, today Acer announced the availability of the first Windows 10 laptops with Alexa pre-installed alongside Cortana.
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But oversized ambition and purposefully ignoring scientific and tech realities caused Theranos to fail — muddying the waters for everyone else.
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Muddying the waters Trump has dismissed reports that Russian hackers, acting on orders from Moscow, sought to aid his campaign.
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It has led to a whole lot of snipping between carriers, further muddying the waters for an already nebulous technology.
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For this, China's official news agency accused America of "muddying the waters" and "making the Asia-Pacific a second Middle East".
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Muddying the waters, the breach was discovered during Verizon's bid to acquire the web giant and its assets for $4.83 billion.
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Further muddying the waters, its leader Xavier Domenech favors a left-wing alliance across parties that both back and reject independence.
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Rather, Trump's critics are accusing the administration's allies of muddying the waters in an effort to tarnish the special counsel's investigation.
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And certainly a lot of Republicans got very good at muddying the waters and distracting from the content of those hearings.
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That would give several campaigns the opportunity to spin a result in their favor, muddying the waters of who really won.
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"If this was a muddying the waters, y'all are an E.P.A. hazardous waste site at this point," Mr. Collins snapped back.
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And it works not by creating a consensus around any particular narrative but by muddying the waters so that consensus isn't achievable.
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It seemed aimed, as with many Russian disinformation campaigns, at muddying the waters around the issue without necessarily claiming to be credible.
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It is also muddying the waters for stock-market investing (40 percent), retirement (36 percent) and buying or selling a house (35 percent).
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The critique is the latest example of Republican lawmakers muddying the waters on empirical research in an effort to boost their policy agendas.
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In addition, muddying the waters even further was the fact that Comcast was simultaneously investing in another streaming service for cord cutters: Comcast Stream.
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Democrats have derided the probe as a partisan exercise designed to shield Trump by muddying the waters around the federal investigation into his campaign.
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Muddying the waters with arguments that Social Security already is too generous is a sure way to damage the economic security of future retirees.
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Barr was accused of muddying the waters even more with the way he presented Mueller's conclusions in his obstruction-of-justice case against Trump.
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"Continued presence of these rumors on social media presents a danger of muddying the waters and further destabilizing an already volatile situation," they said.
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They actually like him, but they were worried about that issue muddying the waters much like other issues did for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Trump might also be muddying the waters of the Iowa election to shore up his support in New Hampshire, where he has a strong lead.
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Bringing up the spurious issue of "anti-religiosity" falls into the familiar Trump administration pattern of muddying the waters to deny the existence of racism.
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Muddying the waters further, espionage, crime, and hactivism have been lumped together, in a way that they are almost never combined in the physical world.
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The main purpose of demanding a renegotiation would be to generate a slow-motion breakdown while muddying the waters so that Washington could avoid blame.
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"We're seeing the presidential debates really muddying the waters on Medicare for All," said Jasmine Ruddy, the lead Medicare for All organizer for the nurses union.
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All of this is playing right into the Trump political playbook, by the way -- muddying the waters so much that many voters simply roll their eyes.
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Rather than shoot down U.S. missiles, Russia appears to have simply decided to say it had done so, further muddying the waters of already fraught international discourse.
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So far, his strategy of muddying the waters has worked perfectly: The impeachment proceedings have continued and shifted the focus away from Mr. Cunha's own legal problems.
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Further muddying the waters, Mr. Puigdemont and separatist lawmakers later signed a declaration of independence, a step set in motion by a highly disputed referendum on Oct.
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They were essentially writing God out of the picture, but they did not consider themselves atheists; Dr. Altizer called himself a Christian atheist, further muddying the waters.
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The Trump administration has been remarkably successful at muddying the waters on Ukraine and impeachment, and Republicans in Congress have helped by parroting the administration's talking points.
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Further muddying the waters for himself, Northam, who refuses to resign, said, in a CBS interview with Gayle King, that he had overreacted with his initial apology.
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A report from The Daily News that Sunday suggested that the mother and babies were still in the hospital because of a "minor issue," muddying the waters.
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Some experts have taken issue with the way Musk talks about these features in the past, arguing he is muddying the waters by overselling a Tesla car's capabilities.
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Trump is trying to draw attention to the crimes that may not have happened, instead of the proven ones that imperil his presidency, while also muddying the waters.
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Muddying the waters on the timing of the move, Bullard noted that there was no reason the Fed must hold a press conference in conjunction with a rate hike.
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There was no significant difference in the risk of non-fatal heart attack or non-fatal stroke, potentially muddying the waters for what the company is allowed to claim.
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But the president in an interview with The Wall Street Journal cited Brennan's involvement in the beginnings of the Russia counterintelligence investigation, muddying the waters as to his reasoning.
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Muddying the waters, it's unlikely Flynn's communications were actually collected under 702, because the Russian ambassador he reportedly spoke with was likely in the United States at the time.
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The Republicans, as is their brand of the day, have served the president&aposs interest by muddying the waters and touting baseless theories to distract from Trump&aposs behavior.
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While these interludes go a long way toward illuminating Hallberg's characters, they can also have the opposite effect — muddying the waters and making the already dizzying plot difficult to follow.
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In a world where nothing can be trusted and fake news abounds, ICO and crypto teams are further muddying the waters by trying – and often failing – to pay for posts.
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Nicholas Kristof President Trump and Devin Nunes have been muddying the waters of the Russia investigation, so let's try to clarify those waters so that they're as clear as vodka.
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It's a way of mocking what is in fact a serious allegation, of muddying the waters of what is a clear-cut question that Mr. Mueller is working to answer.
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Industry publication The Air Current reported Emirates is leaning in that direction, muddying the waters for Boeing as it tries to finalize a deal to sell competing 787-10s to Emirates.
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Muddying the waters further: On Friday morning, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN, "I don't know for sure, nor does the president, if there really was" an informant in the campaign.
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"The lack of driver training and standardized controls, symbols and names for these features, is further muddying the waters for consumers," Matthew Avery, Thatcham's director of research, said in a statement.
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Further muddying the waters for investors, two senior officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve said the market's views of when the central bank would raise interest rates may be too "pessimistic".
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The NSC discussion paper obtained by the Post about the new panel suggests it would be created with an eye toward muddying the waters about the Pentagon and intelligence community's findings.
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What Trump and his associates are doing is pursuing a strategy of muddying the waters as they try to get out from under a decidedly ill-advised tweet from the President.
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Further muddying the waters for investors, two senior officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve said the market's views of when the central bank would raise interest rates may be too pessimistic.
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An unfortunate byproduct of this practice is that Trump and his allies are muddying the waters and reducing their own ability to point out actual wrongdoing when it in fact occurs.
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They are now well practiced in throwing cynical, calculated tantrums aimed at muddying the waters and portraying themselves as the real victims of a culture war that they continue to inflame.
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While China and Russia have been at the forefront of attacks, other nations including North Korea have been muddying the waters, making it harder to know who is conducting the attacks.
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Muddying the waters for the Vatican delegation, a Myanmar regional bishop cast doubt at the same news conference about allegations of ethnic cleansing, suggesting "other communities" might be responsible for stoking them.
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The Spanish government and courts could try to ban parties that advocate secession, but it is also possible that part of the Catalan electorate would boycott the vote, further muddying the waters.
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He, like the President, always saw the Trump-Russia case as more of a political problem than a legal one, and that muddying the waters would be enough to see his client through.
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Italy's constitutional court gave the green light on Tuesday to a national referendum on the duration of oil and gas drilling concessions in the country, muddying the waters for companies operating in the sector.
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"Beijing is muddying the waters with multiple counter-narratives about the origin of the coronavirus," Fergus Ryan, an analyst who studies Chinese social media at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), told VICE News.
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No, they heard him fume about immigrants from "shithouse countries" rather than "shithole countries," and in that scintilla of semantic difference they found a rationale for muddying the waters and rallying around the president.
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An expert at muddying the waters and creating confusion, Mr. Putin advanced a number of alternative theories that could help Moscow address any firm evidence that might emerge as a trail leading to Russia.
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But Esper's is just one of the competing narratives that emerged in the chaotic hours after Spencer's dismissal, muddying the waters of a case that could have serious implications for the broader military, analysts say.
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Though that further risks muddying the waters of the effort, given that social media advertising has been the high-powered vehicle of choice for malicious misinformation muck-spreaders (such as Kremlin-backed agents of societal division).
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" Muddying the waters further are her assertions that while "Bruce was gone" after changing her birth certificate, he is also still around "on the inside, where he will happily remain for the rest of my days.
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And we could soon live in a world where more advanced prosthetics can integrate social media livestreaming, further muddying the waters of a person's right to record what they see and the public's right to privacy.
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President Trump has already started muddying the waters in the latest Ukrainian scandal, publicly blasting the whistleblower as a "partisan," even though Trump admitted in the same setting that he doesn't know who the person is.
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Make no mistake: If Trump survives the deepening scandal he now finds himself in, it will be because of Fox and the rest of the pro-Trump media machine muddying the waters and poisoning the public conversation.
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Further muddying the waters, Britons voted on June 23 to leave the European Union, a surprise outcome that sent shockwaves through global financial markets and means the British economy may slide back into recession in the coming year.
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They see such attacks as a method of muddying the waters around the probe so as to make it easier to refuse an interview — and to push back on any adverse findings for Trump that might eventually emerge.
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Ditto for ZTE, whose own big unveiling, the simply named Gigabit Phone was more proof of concept than anything else, happy muddying the waters in the lead up to 5G with its confusing and difficult to pronounce "5uper Generation" tagline.
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British ministers have rallied round Johnson but one of his allies, Environment Secretary Michael Gove, was accused of muddying the waters in a television interview on Sunday when he said he did not know what Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran.
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Conflicting leaks about what was in the emails and how close to indicting Clinton the FBI was cropped up in different outlets, muddying the waters and making a mockery of the bureau's general rules about not commenting on active investigations.
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Our service members and their families cannot afford to wait for the resources they need to do their jobs, but by adding extraneous and controversial policies to must-pass spending legislation Republicans are muddying the waters and undermining our national security.
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In keeping with our belief that BDS is "a floor not the ceiling," we, along with allies from movements throughout the city, targeted Artis for its role in "muddying the waters" for those looking to support the Palestinian path toward liberation.
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Muddying the waters, the finale included Hadid's vague reference to how quickly things had changed in her life, and then a flashback to she and Foster together a few weeks before, seemingly happy, staring out over the water as the sun set.
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Western governments have been muddying the waters on migration for decades, pretending that the "guest workers" they had imported to ease labour shortages would return home; relying on armies of undocumented migrant workers; and making unrealistic promises about their ability to control borders.
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Further muddying the waters, there is also ongoing litigation in lower courts over recently unearthed evidence that the challengers have said reveals an illegal discriminatory motive by the administration for adding the question, which the high court could yet weigh in on.
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But the broader mix of investments also risks "muddying the waters" for public market investors who are trying to understand Uber's business and how to properly value it, according to Kathleen Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital, which manages IPO-focused exchange-traded funds.
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Importantly, the guidelines form the basis for much federal, state and local food policy — like the school lunch program and congregate meals for older Americans — so the stakes are high for the food industry, which has much to gain from muddying the waters.
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In a segment on his Fox News show, Cavuto read aloud a series of social media reactions to his on-air commentary, in which he accused the president of "muddying the waters" of the controversy surrounding Daniels and her reported affair with Trump.
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Muddying the waters even more is the fact that some carriers and device makers are currently using RCS, but not the Universal Profile (which is being used by Chat), so their apps and services are not cross-compatible with those being used by other vendors.
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But now the White House is muddying the waters by pursuing abortion restrictions — always a nonstarter for Democrats — and trying to formalize its proposal to expand short-term plans that don't comply with Obamacare, when Democrats have said they want to do the exact opposite.
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President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani's frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and making claims that could complicate the president's standing in the special counsel's Russia probe.
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While there is no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of Joe or Hunter Biden, Trump's team is eager to press on with its own investigations and will be muddying the waters where they can in hopes of turning the issue into an anchor on his campaign.
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"It is important to note that while Llanocetus is one of the oldest mysticetes [whales], it is not the most primitive, and that a tooth-filtering stage appears to have preceded Llanocetus, further muddying the waters by suggesting that filter feeding was primitive for toothed baleen whales," Boessenecker told Gizmodo.
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The RNC isn't going to try to seriously convince anyone that Democrats' complaints about his handling of Hillary Clinton's emails is their beef with Comey, but they are hoping that they can persuade the press they care in hopes of muddying the waters — ideally generating some infighting on the left.
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European parliament votes for controversial copyright reform (yes, again) In Europe, meme culture is under attack by lawmakers who have passed legislation muddying the waters around what constitutes fair use — and YouTube's users are worried that the company may start restricting the distribution of their videos on flimsy copyright claims.
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Republicans across the Capitol have resorted to attacking the firsthand knowledge of witnesses, muddying the waters with calls to name the whistleblower and even seeking to discredit the Trump administration's ability to be organized enough to execute a scheme to use military aid in order to advance its own political agenda.
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C.), as a partisan distraction aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia.
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Muddying the waters, conservative pundits like William Kristol started entertaining fantasies of some mysterious new champion emerging, a daydream that sometimes took the form of Mitt Romney but then devolved into ever more obscure figures, like National Review writer David French, until finally settling on the quixotic campaign of former CIA operative Evan McMullin.
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Much of the rhetorical purpose of The Bell Curve seems to be devoted to muddying the waters between the claim that there are limits to how much reasonable policy interventions can do to equalize everyone's abilities and social outcomes, and the claim that there is virtually nothing useful we can do with activist policy to help people.
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Democrats have described both the Nunes memo and the unmasking controversy as politically manufactured scandals aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into Trump campaign associates' ties to Russia.
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Whether it's sharing his "hunch" that the coronavirus death rate is lower than 3.4%, saying that the United States had contained the spread of the virus from China back in February, claiming that cases are going down, muddying the waters on vaccine development and more, the President is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster when it comes to the communications strategy required during a complex crisis like this one.
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That suggests that the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience, that Democrats' messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity), and that Trump's counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.
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The exhibition at Whitechapel — for once a well-balanced and tidy show with some blank spaces on the walls to rest the eyes — displays Ruff's long-time engagement with the primary genres of photography, from photo-journalism (Newspaper Photographs, 22018-91; jpeg, 2004-8; press++, 2016-) to portraiture (Portraits, 1981-91), going through pornography (Nudes, 213-2012) and interior photography (Interiors,1979-83), muddying the waters of our perception in every image, manipulating each of them one way or another.
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" Samantha Vinograd pointed out that the US had three months to get ready for the crisis: "Whether it's sharing his 'hunch' that the coronavirus death rate is lower than 3.4%, saying that the United States had contained the spread of the virus from China back in February, claiming that cases are going down, muddying the waters on vaccine development and more, the President is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster when it comes to the communications strategy required during a complex crisis like this one.
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Three days after a gang of six men in police uniforms and balaclavas stormed the Regency Hotel in Dublin and shot up the weigh-ins for a boxing match scheduled to take place the next night, killing one man and critically injuring two others, a splinter faction of the Irish Republican Army paramilitary group has claimed credit for the ambush, further muddying the waters of a case that has so far stumped a stunned and undermanned Dublin police department and showing once again how deep and tangled run the ties between boxing and the criminal underworld in Ireland.
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Democrats have called the Goodlatte-Gowdy probe a partisan distraction aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's campaign and Russia.
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