Thesaurus: etch-a-sketch moment

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1. when a politician straight-faced and blatantly contradicts something they said only a short time before, denies doing so, and it is on tape so you can clearly see what they did. Also known as a "lie". > Romney said the sky is blue on tuesday. On wednesday he said the sky is never blue and he never claimed it was blue. > He did it with a straight face. > We hit rewind and saw exactly what he said both times, yet he denied contradicting himself. It was an etch-a-sketch moment for that politician.