Quote Originally Posted by Sharpienads View Post
Paraphrased from another post:

It's called hyperbole.

hy·per·bo·le

   /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ Show Spelled[hahy-pur-buh-lee] Show IPA
noun Rhetoric . 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.

2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”


It's a new thing, not everybody's heard of it yet.
Haven't seen Tor claim it as such, and I guess you'll accept that same reasoning for the Liberals' tweets, etc? Hyberbole for all?