Truth Teller Steve Almond: You've told us quite clearly what you need to do, Truth Teller: I feel the need to come clean.
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It's the fact that I've always been a truth teller.
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Democrats are the chief liars, Trump is the truth teller.
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All I do is tell the truth, I'm a truth teller.
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From one point of view, Solnit was a lyrical truth-teller.
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It established him as the rebellious truth-teller people came to know.
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Ginny NiCarthy — author, activist, social worker and truth teller — died on Sept.
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But we can have a hard time recognizing a truth teller, too.
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It is the consummate mode of identity politics, the ultimate truth-teller.
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In a new interview with InStyle, Pompeo presents as Hollywood's newest truth-teller.
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"I am a truth-teller and I will tell the truth," he added.
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"She is our conscience, she is our seer, she is our truth-teller."
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And because he remains a truth-teller, he will win big in November.
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They felt strongly that he was the lone truth teller in the race.
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Republicans, on the other hand, overwhelmingly view Trump as a consistent truth-teller.
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And that is his core strength: that he's a truth-teller and authentic.
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In the play, Cranston plays the evening news anchor and truth-teller Howard Beale.
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Thank you for being my advice giver, a truth teller and a best friend.
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But in other cases, one person's fake newsmaker is another person's bold truth-teller.
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Cardi B's first claim to fame was as a no-holds-barred truth-teller.
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Nielsen has established herself as a Hollywood truth-teller and a crusader for justice.
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"He's a truth teller," said the actor Christian Camargo, who plays the title role.
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She is seen, by her subscribers, as both a truth-teller and a healer.
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His apparent Crip affiliation lent him credibility and mystique as an unfiltered truth-teller.
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Conservative commentators have praised her as a truth-teller, pushing back on coronavirus hysteria.
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Morrison was a master of words as much as she was a truth-teller.
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Tyson's star power is completely tied to his reputation as a truth-teller, she added.
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"What I loved about that character is that he was a truth teller," he says.
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Trump sees himself as a truth-teller -- even when those truths are hard to hear.
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She is essential to Pullman's work — his first reader and "a truth teller," Fickling said.
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Eminem is now being celebrated as an unapologetic truth-teller because he attacked the president.
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And Ms. Palin hailed him as a great truth teller, even apologizing for previous unpleasantries.
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"I think the American people are yearning for someone who's a truth-teller," Delaney said.
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" He hopes that Camille's observations will help a jury decide if Cosby "is a truth teller.
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Your advertisers are back because your fans stood up for a good man and truth-teller.
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Mr. Trump was the plain-spoken truth teller Mr. Zupon wanted to see shake up Washington.
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In the unexpected slide of her sentences, she was our foremost poet, our foremost truth teller.
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Which is where the legend of Marianne Williamson, political oddball and -- maybe -- truth-teller, has taken root.
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For better or worse, Boeheim's favorite aspect of himself is the fact that he's a truth-teller.
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Emerging from the mire of what is left of Trumpworld, Michael Cohen is an unlikely truth teller.
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"They're gonna attack me for saying this, but I'm a truth-teller at this point," Turner added.
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Lewandowski also said he is a "truth teller" whenever he stands before Congress or takes an oath.
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"I come from a long line of matriarchs and I am a truth teller," she said recently.
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Lorraine leaned more toward social theorist, and Jimmy was to his core a critic, truth teller, and doer.
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Ms. Gravatt's fully embodied Faye would at first appear to be the classic, bluff and gruff truth teller.
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The manifesto was embraced by some, particularly on the political right, who branded him a brave truth-teller.
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The question is whether that will turn off supporters who hail Trump as a fire-breathing truth teller.
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" He said he hopes that Camille's observations will help a jury decide if Cosby "is a truth teller.
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The manifesto was quickly embraced by some, particularly on the political right, branding him a brave truth-teller.
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It's about telling the truth, even when it's inconvenient or paints the truth teller in a bad light.
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But being shady doesn't make someone a bad person, just a truth teller — a fairy godmother of sorts.
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But Fauci remains on the job -- and is still the medical truth-teller of choice for most Americans.
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Star is your quintessential pot-stirrer, even if he still thinks of himself as a brave truth-teller.
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"I think the American people are yearning for someone who's a truth-teller," Delaney told CNN last year.
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To his base, he's a truth-teller, thumbing his nose at conventional politicians, whether they are liberal or conservative.
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That undermines its role as societal truth teller and thus the public's already damaged faith in the press's honesty.
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He has countered that he is merely a truth-teller who cares about America too deeply for political correctness.
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President Trump sees himself as an anti-PC truth teller, as do many of his closest advisers and allies.
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But though feted and exploited by questionable allies, Solzhenitsyn should be remembered for his role as a truth-teller.
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Instead of being a truth teller like some believe, he is being counterproductive and dividing our nation even further.
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For them, Donald Trump is a champion, a truth-teller who takes on the elites and will restore America's greatness.
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Bernie Sanders and called him a "truth teller" when it came to getting power out of Washington and Wall Street.
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And yes, Beckmann seemed to embrace the idea, as an artist, that he could be a seer and truth-teller.
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Davis presented Cohen as a reformed truth-teller, who has cooperated "fully" with special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing Russia probe.
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Clinton struck me as a soulless wheeler-dealer, whereas former Senator Paul Tsongas spoke to me as a truth-teller.
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The students find the whole idea of the writer as a gifted truth-teller — as a kind of god — contemptible.
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Even supporters who maintain that Mr. Trump is essentially a truth teller acknowledge that he can be loose with details.
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He's portrayed as a kind of dark truth-teller because he's learned that the world is a joke and nothing matters.
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The second way Clinton can upset Trump's game would be to call into doubt his claim to be a 'truth-teller.
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He is but a humble immigrant and truth-teller, locked up for a crime he...well, who cares about his crime?
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Chrissy is a self-proclaimed truth teller with a passion for intersectional feminism and creating a diverse and inclusive wellness industry.
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Happily, none of this happened to the truth teller in the Monsanto matter, who held a financial job at the company.
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Perhaps a misogynist tradition of translation was more comfortable with Sarah as a crazy woman than as a victimized truth teller.
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White conservatives often portray him as a courageous truth-teller because he tells black people what they don't want to hear.
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His blunt, sometimes offensive statements might have turned some people off, but they also convinced some voters he was a truth teller.
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He's a "truth teller," a scourge of the political correctness that afflicts our politics, the perfect candidate for these anti-establishment times.
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" Republicans have long hoped Trump will pivot on his behavior, but in the "Squawk Box" interview, he said: "I'm a truth teller.
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If you've done the former, you are probably already standing up as a teacher and truth-teller, helping inspire others to transform.
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More than being simpatico on policy questions, diehard Sanders supporters regard him as a time-tested truth-teller and political warrior poet.
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I don't know what the future holds, but at this time in my life, I want to be a fierce truth teller.
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Even if you don't need Beuys justified or explained to you, the movie is an exhilarating portrait of a unique truth-teller.
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"In order to prove you're a truth teller, you have to prove it happened," said Joseph Cammarata, who represented seven Cosby accusers.
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Ms. Warren repeatedly dodged, speaking only about overall costs in what allies now say hurt her brand as a wonky truth teller.
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It's a sign that Harris's campaign has recognized her central appeal to Democratic voters: not just a truth-teller, but a prosecutor.
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Later still, regret at the punishment of the truth-teller can build into powerful feelings of worship, whereas rudeness will be disowned.
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In the 20163s he earned a reputation as a truth-teller, a "maverick" who broke from the GOP when moved by his conscience.
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Ms. King has emerged as a tough-love truth-teller, delivering straight talk between posts on social media about squeezing into her Spanx.
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"Don't laugh, he kind of reminds me in many ways of Abraham Lincoln who was another great truth-teller of his time," Weld said.
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For these voters, Trump is not so much an anachronistic ghost of a racist past as a truth-teller, unafraid of being politically incorrect.
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In other words: It was always a relatively small faction of Trump voters who chose him because they believed he was a truth-teller.
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Indeed, Cohen's new role as a truth teller seems to have triggered an impulse that is destructive for both him and his former client.
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For a community that has long cast itself as a nonpartisan truth-teller, it is in danger of being pulled into the political fray.
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The administrative review's results proved that Porter was "a truth-teller" in his description of the events leading up to Gray's death, Murtha said.
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We forward to a resolution of the case that will establish that Louisa was a 'truth teller', so that her legacy will live forever untarnished.
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Yet to his credit, Mike Pence dished out his flurry of lies with calm confidence -- while Tim Kaine, the truth-teller, came off as ruffled.
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Trump, you recall, has carefully crafted a very specific political identity -- she is the truth-teller who supposedly has a moderating influence on her father.
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Nicholas Kristof ONE persistent narrative in American politics is that Hillary Clinton is a slippery, compulsive liar while Donald Trump is a gutsy truth-teller.
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CNN legal contributor Jeffrey Toobin touched on this part of Thomas' courageous truth-teller persona in a New Yorker profile of the Supreme Court justice.
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It was Trump's ability to deceive with impunity while still claiming the mantle of the tough-talking truth-teller that seemed to gall him most.
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Trump's response to calls to restrain his rhetoric is to argue that he is a truth-teller who refuses to be bound by political correctness.
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Swift has, since that infamous Video Music Awards interruption in 2009, cast Kanye as a bully to her innocence, a liar to her truth teller.
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An ambitious and intelligent truth teller, she dreamed of a career as a comic-book author and becoming the first in her family to attend college.
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But this season, model Teddy Quinlivan plays our truth-teller, here to set the record straight on what it's really like to dress for Fashion Week.
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Christie was right, even if he did have a self-interest in coming off as the blunt-spoken truth teller of the field at the debate.
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Like other debunkers, of course, he is more of a truth seeker than a truth teller, given that scientific knowledge is, by nature, a moving target.
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In it, God sends Moses (perhaps the world's most famous unaccompanied child migrant) to Pharaoh as a truth-teller, to demand the release of the Israelites.
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So whatever he can find to portray himself as a bold truth-teller, and Obama and the Democrats as overly politically correct weaklings, he will use.
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Contemporary stand-up increasingly positions the comedian either as a relatable personality whom audiences can follow from role to role or as a righteous truth-teller.
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In the process, his friends and fellow senators say, he has carved out a new role for himself on Capitol Hill: elder statesman and truth-teller.
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Every conversation about whether taxes would go up under Medicare for All, and every dodge, threatened to eat away at Warren's image as a truth-teller.
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Maybe Sam made Jon appear to be more of a hero, to be more noble, to be more of a truth-teller, than he actually was!
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Not only does she make you laugh uproariously but she can literally crack your heart open with one look, because she's a truth teller as a performer.
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Turns out however, he was America's rebbe – a master teacher, a truth teller – an intellectual giant who was unafraid of the powerful and of the power-wannabees.
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But there is a more serious aspect underlying Westbrook's video, in which she frames herself as a brave truth-teller, speaking truth to power about James Charles.
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She warmed to the role of truth-teller, handing over a small library of Detainee Assessment Briefs, or D.A.B.s, from the American holding facility at Guantánamo Bay.
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In her post-exit interview on ABC's Good Morning America that same month, she sold herself as a brave truth-teller who had quit, rather than been fired.
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So if he&aposs a great truth-teller and he&aposs denied this central claim that underpins the entire Russia collusion theory, how come it didn&apost matter?
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It's weird that Kristen Stewart, who — again — is famous because of her role in a Mormon marriage parable, is now an unvarnished truth-teller against the celebrity establishment.
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"Lulabel Seitz is a fierce truth teller and they tried to silence her- don't you understand sexual assault victims will be silenced no more????" she wrote on Twitter.
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The FBI chief is in his fourth year of a 10-year term, after having been confirmed on the strength of his reputation as an independent truth-teller.
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The candidate who successfully merges entertainment and politics is potent, because you can claim to be joking to one audience while another sees you as a truth teller.
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" Dotcom told VICE News he gave Assange's lawyers "338 pages of text messages with Trump's best friend, who is also a secret supporter of truth-teller Julian Assange.
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" The television journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell, who is a friend of Levin's, told me, "Harvey's a truth-teller—he has exposed things that people want to keep secret.
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A government whistle-blower who preferred to be labeled a truth-teller, Mr. Fitzgerald testified more than 50 times on Capitol Hill about fraud, pork and cost overruns.
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Dr. Drew has told a judge Janice Dickinson is a truth teller, and if she says Bill Cosby raped her then the court can take that to the bank.
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A clown was a truth-teller, living by different rules—as he did when, on ten occasions, he greeted a presiding bishop with a merry splat of custard pie.
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"I am a truth teller in accordance with the laws and traditions of our Big House," she said, referring to her Kwakwaka'wakw nation's center of governance and cultural activities.
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Mr. Hawkins, best known for his performance as Dr. Dre in the film "Straight Outta Compton," gives us a Paul who is a truth-teller in spite of himself.
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If Trump used an insult like that against Clinton, he wouldn't seem like a rude truth-teller, but another gross old man who can't handle working with women as equals.
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Vampire or artist, exploiter or truth teller, genius or purveyor of spectacles that play to the cheap seats: The biographer is forced to take a stand on Arbus, even today.
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If Midge is modeled on anyone, it's Joan Rivers, who broke down boundaries as a brash, crass, unapologetic truth-teller about the degradations women face when they aspire to more.
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And Carlson has responded to Trump's simian bullying exactly the way a Beta male should, by showing deference; Carlson's article speaks of Trump with great respect as a supposed truth-teller.
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On the other hand, foreign policy writer Robert Naiman wrote an open letter to Sanders encouraging him to speak at AIPAC -- urging him to be a "truth-teller" to the group.
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At the news conference announcing the results of the investigation, Lutsenko held firm that Voronenkov was a truth teller, citing his testimony in yet another case of Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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The White House today, still not denouncing Roseanne's racism, tries to confuse the issue by going after Samantha Bee's brilliant rant against Ivanka last night," he wrote , calling her a "truth-teller.
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Former Google engineer James Damore, who was fired for distributing a memo suggesting women are not biologically suited for certain types of work, is now branding himself as a brave truth teller.
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"I don't know what the future holds, but at this time in my life, I want to be a fierce truth teller," Booker said during a discussion to kick off the festival.
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Like Mr. Powell, he demonstrates the appeal of a charismatic leader who presents himself as a principled truth-teller, the only man brave enough to break with the establishment consensus on immigration.
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While appealing to his supporters as a determined truth teller, the WikiLeaks brand has begun to erode due to an ostensible "tag team" attack with the Russian government on an American politician.
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Does a moment like that start to blur the line between your identity on the show and in real life — now you have to be a radical truth-teller in all situations?
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Hegar tells me that she's a truth-teller, while she adds some salsa to a breakfast burrito that she's having for lunch — she was too busy to get around to it at breakfast.
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To the Editor: In Ibsen's 1882 play "An Enemy of the People," it is the truth teller who becomes the enemy of the people, because he exposes the moral rot in his community.
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For his part, Assange has continued to insist he is merely a truth teller and warrior for transparency — and sees the charges against him as nothing more than an attempt to muzzle free speech.
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Iraqis have endured years of Islam being used to justify mass killing, and some see Mr. Trump as a truth-teller in calling out Islam — or a certain brand of it — as the problem.
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Warren has campaigned as a truth teller but came across, in this instance, as a classically evasive Washington operator, scared to treat voters as grown-ups who can process information in a sophisticated manner.
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Itself an inversion of Moliere's "The Misanthrope," the classic account of a societal truth-teller who can't help but spread bile, "The Philanthropist" considers how it might feel to be maligned for being agreeable.
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A gifted, relentless self-promoter, he devoted his picaresque life to convincing people that he, as visionary truth-teller, would repeatedly rise from life's devastations to triumph over the opprobrium of a blinkered society.
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Didn't we just spend an election season enduring this man — a bold truth-teller to some, a tedious self-promoter to others — and his Cassandra-like warnings that President Trump was going to win?
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Currently on her Beautiful Trauma tour, Pink told PEOPLE for the family's cover story that she considers herself "a tough mama" and "a truth-teller" when it comes to her children with husband Carey Hart.
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Paige, who seems to be a good truth teller for the show, points out in her interview that Chyna is complaining about Rob's insecurities when Chyna is dealing with a lot of the same things.
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As I noted last week, Trump's public agonies over what to do on his signature issue revealed his disconcerting tendency — contrary to his truth-teller, bomb-thrower image — to agree with whomever he's speaking to.
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The Milo phenomenon, then, is an internet version of the Trump phenomenon: people who feel resentment at their place in the culture banding around a charismatic figure whom they see as a singular truth teller.
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Chayefsky had been contemplating the idea for "Network" since at least the 1960s, when he wrote an unproduced pilot about a TV executive who sours on his industry and endeavors to become a radical truth-teller.
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"The Ifill family is thrilled that our sister, cousin and aunt has received this signal tribute to her legacy as a truth-teller, pioneer and exemplar," said Bert Ifill, Gwen's brother and spokesperson for the family.
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The truth you need to tell, Truth Teller, is less about those long ago sexual dalliances that meant little to you than it is about the kind of relationship you want to build with your partner.
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Pose is a ruthless truth-teller—an entrancing saga that captures your attention with flashy lights and bursts of glitter, ultimately delivering a devastating story of America that has never been told from this vantage point.
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At various points in history people have believed that emeralds were capable of protecting humans against cholera, infidelity, and evil spirits, and that an emerald placed under the tongue could transform a person into a truth-teller.
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But it played into Trump's core political persona as a truth teller who swipes away political correctness and struck a chord with a certain section of Republican grass-roots voters who have flocked to the billionaire populist.
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Now in the role of converted truth-teller for an audience of federal prosecutors, Mr. Cohen admits he was given a very big job: shut those two women up on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
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"He had such an effect on so many different people in that he was a truth teller, and when people found him, they found a sense of being," said Paul Livingston, a clergy abuse victim and friend.
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He wrote about having dyed his hair and later feeling ashamed as he studied his reflection in the bathroom mirror: dyeing his hair was a form of deception that challenged his self-perception as a truth-teller.
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His dedication to his country and the military were unsurpassed, and maybe most of all, he was a truth teller - never afraid to speak truth to power in an era where that has become all too rare.
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In season 9's "A New Low," resident truth-teller Bethenny sits sits down for a bite with actual friend Carole Radziwill, sometimes-friend Ramona Singer, reunion enemy LuAnn De Lesseps (now D'Agostino), and Countess sidekick Dorinda Medley.
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Jordan, the truth-teller of the day, also opens up to Rainer about his intense relationship with his mom and shares the story of Aiden, an Irish grifter whom Jordan accidentally killed while trying to protect his mom.
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Mr. Trump's supporters rarely defend him as a truth teller, but argue that all presidents lie and point to false statements made by his predecessors, like Bill Clinton (Monica Lewinsky), Mr. Bush (Iraq) and Mr. Obama (health care).
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"I come from a long line of matriarchs and I am a truth teller in accordance with the laws and traditions of our Big House," she said, referring to her Kwakwaka'wakw nation's center of governance and cultural activities.
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Donald Trump responded to the report on Twitter by saying that Comey and McCabe were essentially the same, but that missed the underlying tension in the report, which concluded McCabe was a liar and Comey was a truth-teller.
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Driven by concern for the marginalized and the disenfranchised and belief in photography as a truth teller, he chronicled civil rights protests in the South, the adventures of a Chicago motorcycle gang and the lives of prisoners in Texas.
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What the VA needs is a clear-eyed truth teller with an accurate diagnosis of where the department has gone wrong — and a reformist view of how to restore the agency to its fundamental mission of service to veterans. .
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Bourdain, having established himself as a brash truth-teller, got into public spats with more famous figures; he once laid into Alice Waters for her pious hatred of junk food, saying that she reminded him of the Khmer Rouge.
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When he uploaded his first YouTube video, there was no way Kumar could have expected that he'd become a public face of H-21B visas: an advocate—and a truth-teller—for a way of life he can barely tolerate.
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What makes "MC, Middle, Headliner" work is how it never directly demonizes the anti-PC Jason (Dov Davidoff) as an uncouth loudmouth, but it also doesn't celebrate him as a bold truth-teller being held back by a repressive culture.
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Officials said Fauci in particular has emerged as a critical truth-teller in meetings of the coronavirus task force, the panel of government officials originally convened in late January by acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who has since been replaced.
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At the same time, she has kept the reputation of a progressive truth-teller, dissecting beauty standards in a viral speech dedicated to her daughter at this year's MTV Video Music Awards and speaking openly about her disdain for President Trump.
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Stanley had a beautiful voice, memorialized as the uncredited narrator in the film version of "To Kill A Mockingbird," and when we talked about theatre, particularly actors, she was as brilliant a commentator as Shaw or Tynan—a constructive truth teller.
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While people are attempting to praise La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz as the hero of the year so far, we'd rather shift the focus to a very deserving personal hero of ours, Chrissy Teigen — the actual truth-teller we need right now.
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It's a play that is likely to win approval from GOP base voters who saw in Trump a truth-teller on immigration whose tough policies and promise to build a wall could lacerate what they saw as liberal political correctness over the issue.
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The White House today, still not denouncing Roseanne's racism, tries to confuse the issue by going after Samantha Bee's brilliant rant against Ivanka last night," wrote Moore on Twitter while sharing a YouTube link to Bee's comment before adding, "SAM BEE: TRUTH-TELLER!
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But whether you think he is a heroic truth teller or a self-aggrandizing grandstander, and there are arguments for both, what is indisputable is that he is also something else: a 21st-century embodiment of a 20th-century archetype rooted deep in American mythology.
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But forget the source for a second, and forget your feelings about Trump: This man delivers the performance of a lifetime, going from brave truth-teller to a garden-variety asshole to a humbled and humiliated failure in the span of about ten seconds.
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Hillary Clinton targeted Bernie Sanders's electoral appeal with some of her strongest language yet in a debate on Sunday night, seizing on Mr. Sanders's recent policy shifts on universal health care and gun control to try to undercut his image as an anti-political truth teller. Mrs.
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Mr. Hannity, who reaches close to four million people each weeknight on Fox News and about 15 million each week on his syndicated radio show, describes his approach as "facts without fear," presenting himself to his audience as a truth-teller in a time of panic.
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" Thompson also notes that "Trump's appeal as a presidential candidate depends significantly on the belief that he is a truth-teller who will have nothing to do with the conventional language of politics," warning that: "We shouldn't confuse anti-rhetorical 'truth telling' with actually telling the truth.
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At times Mr. Bourdain's capacity as truth-teller could bleed into other, less salutary roles: the attention-seeking bully, the purveyor of well-polished shtick, the lecture-circuit fixture who, on cue, would curse like a line cook who has just chopped off the tip of his finger.
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Most Americans tell pollsters that they do not believe what he says, but a significant minority considers him a truth-teller in a broader sense, saying out loud what others will not about a broken system he vows to fix, even if he does not hew to particular facts.
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It's hard to look like a heroic truth teller by comparison, but Anonymous tries very hard, presenting anonymity as not just convenient but an ultimately selfless act, designed to force everyone to pay more attention to what this book says by deflecting attention away from the person who's saying it.
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In this view, when Trump vilifies immigrants (as The Washington Post put it "Trump's most insulting — and violent — language is often reserved for immigrants") or calls Baltimore a "rodent infested mess," he is the populist right's truth teller, and in this scheme politically correct liberals who denounce his comments are the liars.
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Exploding the wistful, melancholy atmosphere that pervades so many Chekhov productions, Mr. Posner's version reminds us that Chekhov was a relentless truth teller when it came to his primary theme: the dogged way life thwarts our desires and expectations and, most painfully, may deny us the essential hope of the heart, a mutual and sustaining love.
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But the enduring popularity of self-styled democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, plus survey and other evidence suggesting millennials prefer socialism to capitalism—and the discussion of ideas like 70 percent marginal tax rates (which in truth were not that outlandish 50 years ago) by insurgents like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—suggest Disney is no radical truth-teller.
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On Monday evening, a woman named Leah McElrath, who identifies as a "writer, encourager, [and] truth-teller," posted a tweet so twisted, it offered us a reminder that the universe would surely be sweeter without the world wide web: Now that everyone has gone for a long walk to think about that tweet, let's break it down: Here, McElrath is theorizing about the sexual prowess of three possible 2020 Democratic candidates.
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He has to become a healer instead of a divider; a compulsive truth-teller rather than a compulsive liar; someone ready to study problems and make decisions based on evidence, not someone who just shoots from the hip; someone who tells people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear; and someone who appreciates that an interdependent world can thrive only on win-win relationships, not zero-sum ones.
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