obvious truth

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Journalist Michael Kinsley famously defined a “gaffe” as what happens “when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

The data that are available support an obvious truth about car colors: Americans have homogeneous tastes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

“A gaffe,” he famously wrote, “is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

There’s an obvious truth to Brian Schmetzer’s claim that this isn’t winter 2020.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Or the obvious truth that her “perfect messenger” got caught just the same as she did.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman