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 obvious truth is that Diana’s story is one of the most told and retold stories probably in the past 30 years,” Perkins said in an interview this week.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2022

“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

But it fit Michael Kinsley’s classic definition: “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2022

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

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman