Kinsley gaffe

A Kinsley Gaffe or "Gaffe in Washington" in American politics is the term used for telling the truth by accident: in other words, it describes the situation when a politician says something inadvertently in public which he or she privately believes to be true, but which he or she would ordinarily refrain from saying publicly since he or she believes the statement would be politically harmful or damaging. The term comes from journalist Michael Kinsley, who famously said, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth." He first said this in "The Guardian" on 14 January 1992.

ee also

* Freudian slip

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/66/73/32773.html Entry in Bartleby's Quotations]

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