Kinsley gaffe

English Etymology Named after American journalist Michael Kinsley (b. 1951), who drew attention to the phenomenon. Noun en US politics A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal. en 9 October 2013 Max Fisher The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/oops-azerbaijan-released-election-results-before-voting-had-even-started They said it had been only a trial run, posted in error, showing hypothetical results from one small electoral district. You might call this a sort of Kinsley gaffe on a national scale. https://web.archive.org/web/20250725172549/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/oops-azerbaijan-released-election-results-before-voting-had-even-started/ 25 July 2025 en 2018 David A. Graham The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/trump-russia-republicans/565523/ Trump Can Never Go Too Far for Republicans Give Thune credit for candor, or at least for a Kinsley gaffe: Intentionally or not, he made clear that the game was getting the best available walk-back and moving on. https://web.archive.org/web/20241113024952/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/trump-russia-republicans/565523/ 13 November 2024 en eponyms