Who Can Really Say?

I used to be a trial lawyer of sorts. I came close, but never had a jury trial. I tried many non-jury trials, and helped out with others. Some were won, some were lost. One thing I learned from it was to avoid bad arguments, and one form of those is an argument that overreaches by embellishing the facts, especially to the point of lying (which is bad for lawyers in any case).

It seems to me that most advocacy groups would do well to learn that argument, but they aren't in the realm of mere advocacy -- they market their ideas as well, and there's a real difference.

So this might be good marketing, but it's terrible advocacy.