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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPolitifact has to resort to scientific evidence to point out the obvious to dumb Trump fans.
That Hillary Clinton never actually said, "We are going to raise taxes on the middle class" in a stump speech to what we assume we would assume to be predominantly middle class audience, who promptly cheered her statement.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/05/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-says-hillary-clinton-wants-ra/
Alan Yu, a linguistics professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in phonology, ran the audio through a computer program called Praat, which analyzes phonetics.
By analyzing the sound waves, we can see that Clinton was saying "arent," because she definitely pronounced the "n," though she didnt really hit the "t."
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As you can see, the phoneme (unit of sound) highlighted in pink is an "n," though theres not a "t." That still suggests she was trying for the word "arent."
"It is pretty common for people to not release the final t in word-final -nt clusters and is definitely not likely for someone to release the tin a three-consonant sequence like ntg in aren't going," Yu told us. "In any case, since she did pronounce the n in aren't, it is clear that she produced the negated form of the copula are."
Edward Flemming, a linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also ran the audio through Praat and came up with the same results. But even if we didnt have Praat, he said, context alone sways the argument in the Clinton camps favor.
"Also if she was going to say we are going to, wouldnt she contract it to were, as she does a few words earlier?" Flemming pointed out. "To my ears, it is clear that she is saying arent."
Meanwhile, I still had someone on my Facebook page today reacting "OMG! Hillary says she's going to raise taxes on the middle class. Gaaaaah!!!!!"
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Politifact has to resort to scientific evidence to point out the obvious to dumb Trump fans. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Aug 2016
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Jim__
(14,077 posts)1. Trump resorting to transparent lies in his attack ads against Hillary is really ....
... an unintentional compliment to Hillary's campaign. Trump can't find anything to attack in her actual positions.
underpants
(182,829 posts)2. Saw it on FB and Fox News this morning
As my wife pointed out by their highlighting it the actual message (which is painfully clear to anyone) will get told to the nth degree.
They think they have a winner with this but they are really grasping at straws.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)3. The RW doesn't accept science. This won't help.